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Tech Short Q&A: What is vCenter Single Sign-On For

What is vCenter Single Sign-On? vCenter Single Sign-On is a feature of VMware vCenter 5, 6 and future vCenter implementations that is an authentication broker which also creates security tokens providing a secure way of accessing your environments. This token exchange mechanism is far superior than the former requirement of each component authenticating separately with a directory service such […]

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Office 365: Errors during cutover migration

This is an error I’ve received when running a cut-over migration batch in Office 365. Error: ProvisioningFailedException: The parameters passed to the cmdlet represent a managed account, which doesn‎’t match the namespace state, which is federated. I’ve reached out to support, to help me troubleshoot this.  So far there hasn’t been much I’ve been able to find online […]

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Primary target IP address responded with: “451 5.7.3 Cannot achieve Exchange Server authentication.”

In my previous post I was banging my head over an Exchange 2013 issue. I was able to finally resolve it. And it took some steps to do so… 451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: “451 5.7.3 Cannot achieve Exchange Server authentication.” After an Exchange 2013 Install I found myself having issues with […]

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Windows 8 VPN Error 812

I recently bumped into a little issue when connecting to my companies corp network using the VPN Client built into Windows 8. I haven’t run into this issue on XP, Vista, or Windows 7 so I wondered if something was new that may have prevented this. And I guessed it right. After getting the following error: Now […]