Author Archives: ganesamoorthy s

How to Change .onmicrosoft.com to your own Domain Name on office365 and Azure AD

If you are started using initial mail address in Office 365 like yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com and want to migrate to your own custom real Domain name like yourdomain.com, user login name from ganesh@windowstricks.onmicrosoft.com to ganesh@Windowstricks.in, how to do this and is there any user impact connecting to the office 365 services login like Azure portal, Office 365 portal,… Read More »

Configure Multi-Factor Authentication on ADFS (Globally or relying party trust)

We can Configure multi-factor authentication policies on AD FS (Active Directory Federation Services) by editing each relying party trust which only affects the particular application or globally by editing Global Multi-factor Authentication ADFS server level which affects all the application on ADFS, relying party trust does not override the global authentication policy, so you have to… Read More »

GPO Update failed with LDAP Bind function call failed error on Windows Server 2016/2019/2012 and Windows 10

If you are forcing GPO Update then you will get LDAP Bind function call failed error on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 and also can’t access Sysvol/Netlogon share and also getting other authentication failure errors Also Read: Group policy is not applying/working after patching (GPO Permission issues) Getting below error on gpupdate /force  Updating policy “Computer… Read More »

Difference between Windows server 2016 and 2019

have already written new features of Windows Server 2019 on my previous article which detailed the list of features available on Windows Server 2019, now want to compare the difference between Windows server 2016 and 2019, will list difference Also Read: Windows Server 2019 Features Comparison of Windows server 2016 vs 2019 Below features are… Read More »

How to Get a Domain name from the SID

Get the SID of all trusted domains and forest: Some time you end up having the object SID and want to know the Domain name, from which Domain this SID came from? we have a simple way to find this While working on Azure AD sync issues we come across the SID mismatch between user… Read More »

Compare primary and staging Azure AD connect (AADC) sync servers

How to Compare primary and staging Azure AD connect (AADC) sync servers configuration and data: If you want to compare active and staging AADC sync servers before swap the roles between them, then you have to compare both the servers Azure AD connect configuration (which contains selected Forest/Domains/OUs and all sync rules) and also the… Read More »

Awaiting Export Confirmation Error on Azure AD Connect

Some time the Active Directory object sync failed with Awaiting Export Confirmation Error on Azure Synchronization Service Manager, if it’s for short time then no issues, Awaiting Export Confirmation error will be changed to update when the next replication cycle complete the object Synchronization, what we can do if the status continue to show same… Read More »