Entries by Daniel Nikolic

ADFS 3.0 versus PHP SimpleSAML

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We stumbled upon an issue at a customer last month. When setting up a federative trust between ADFS and SimpleSAML we received multiple errors:     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 strategically, […]

Mac PowerShell Core: After upgrading you receive the message powershell: command not found

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After installing (via https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell) PowerShell Alpha 9 to the latest version RC you receive the message powershell: command not found. 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 strategically, technically and financially. Core qualities Quick […]

AzureRM (NetCore): how to remove multiple users from Azure AD

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When removing a directory (tenant) from Azure AD it’s necessary to clean the directory before it’s even possible to remove it. Removing multiple users from the portal is a time consuming business: only batches of 7 users a time are supported. So removing them via PowerShell is the way to go. As I was performing […]

Introducing SFGuru Explorer 1.2!

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Since the initial community release of SFGuru Explorer for Citrix ShareFile on 25-10-2014 we (Daniel Nikolic / Rink Spies) have been busy developing the application. Every time when we detect repeating, or labor intensive tasks within our ShareFile support team we try to improve the job by integrating an optimized task in SFGuru Explorer. Currently we […]

Demystifying the ShareFile StorageZone Controller Passphrase

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While setting up the first ShareFile StorageZone Controller you need to enter a Passphrase. The Passphrase will be used to protect your file encryption key (SCKeys.txt) which is located in the CIFS root folder. Without the Passphrase you won’t be able to add additional StorageZone Controllers, reinstall or recover the current StorageZone or create configuration […]

CRM 2011 – Outlook plugin: Cannot connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM server because we cannot authenticate your credentials

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Author: Daniel Nikolic When installing the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 plugin for Outlook on a Windows 8 machine it’s possible that you receive error: “Cannot connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM server because we cannot authenticate your credentials. Check your connection or contact your administrator for more help.” In the logfile ‘C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSCRM\Logs\Crm50ClientConfig.log’ we see the following error […]

Migrating Virtual Machine in SCVMM 2012 SP1 CTP2 results in error 12700

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Author: Daniel Nikolic After migrating a Virtual Machine via the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) SP1 CTP2 we receive the following error after trying to edit hardware or start the VM: Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation on the %MACHINENAME% server because of the error: ‘%VIRTUALMACHINNAME%’ failed to start. (Virtual machine ID 720ACA4A-6BBB-4669-BF0E-7577620F76B9) […]

The curious case of the non responsive Windows 2012 Hyper-V server

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Author: Daniel Nikolic Suddenly the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP 2 version could not connect to the Windows 2012 Hyper-V server, different error messages appeared which didn’t really make sense: Error (2916) VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent %MACHINENAME% was lost. Unknown error (0x80338126) […]

Enable MSTSC (RDS Client) on Windows 2012 Server Core

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Author: Daniel Nikolic If you want to use MSTSC (RDS / RDP Client) in the Server Core of Windows 2012 you must copy the following files (preferably of a Windows 2012 GUI install): %SystemRoot%\System32\mstsc.exe Daniel NikolicIs interested in everything connected to technology. Has a passion for cloud, virtualization and software development. Always finds appropriate IT […]

Our partner Denamik has released Denamik LoadGen 2.3

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Our partner Denamik has released a new version of Denamik LoadGen. The execution of massive load and stress tests is now easier than before. You can now record your own user action scripts from within LoadGen, and setup LoadBots to handle the execution of these scripts. LoadGen allows you to manage LoadBots to create remote […]