Entries by Daniel Nikolic

Migrating our old support website to Zendesk Help Center with Temporary Redirects

When I migrated my existing support website to Zendesk Help Center, I wanted to ensure a seamless experience for my users. One challenge I faced was handling redirects for my old articles. Since Zendesk doesn’t natively support 301 (Moved Permanently) server-side redirects, I needed to find a workaround to ensure users could still access the […]

Troubleshooting Azure Managed Identity Connection to SQL Azure Database

Managed identities allow you to connect to several Azure resources, including Azure App Services to Azure SQL databases. This eliminates the need for app secrets, custom SQL users, and passwords, as the managed identity acts as a bridge between the resources. If you are new to managed identities, Microsoft provides a comprehensive article on setting […]

Upgrading Windows 11 22H2 fails with error 0x80070002

As many of you may already know, Microsoft recently released the highly anticipated Windows 11 22H2 update. As with any new software update, many users were excited to upgrade their systems and experience the new features and improvements. However, for some of us, the upgrade process was not as smooth as we had hoped. I, […]

SignTool or Certificate import fails after upgrading to Windows 10 20H2

After upgrading our Build Automation machine to Windows 10 20H2 I had an issue running signtool.exe. The error which was returned by our Azure DevOps Agent was: Daniel NikolicIs interested in everything connected to technology. Has a passion for cloud, virtualization and software development. Always finds appropriate IT solutions for customers that match their needs […]

Windows 10 version 2004 Sandbox and System.Data.SqlXml.dll

I use Windows 10 Sandbox a lot, it’s really convenient for many things. Since I have upgraded my laptop to the 2004 version I had an issue when starting some applications which are using SQL. I found the following logging when starting a specific application which was no longer working: Daniel NikolicIs interested in everything […]

G Suite SSO Provisioning accounts with Azure AD and manually deleted accounts in Azure AD

We had a customer who uses G Suite as primary Identity Provider. So user accounts are created at the Google site. We have added the SSO Office 365 connection and enabled user provisioning towards the Azure AD environment. Daniel NikolicIs interested in everything connected to technology. Has a passion for cloud, virtualization and software development. […]

Set-MsolDomainAuthentication : You cannot remove this domain as the default domain without replacing it with another default domain

I was asked by a customer of us to add an SSO integration between Google and Azure. One of the steps is to change the authentication type of the domain from Managed to Federated. The command to change the authentication type is: Set-MsolDomainAuthentication. After running the command you can receive the following message which is […]

After disconnecting VPN – no network connection and PING returns: No resources

I’m hibernating my Windows laptop all the time, but after a while, I get a strange error when I disconnect my VPN. After disconnecting the VPN there is no way to communicate with a resource on the network or Internet whatsoever. Disconnecting, disabling or resetting the WiFi adapter will not work. Also restarting several network […]