October 2017 – Cloud ON

Oct122017 by Danilo.Omaljev@outlook.comNo Comments

We’ve run into a problem with your Office 365 subscription

Issue: When user start any of Microsoft Office desktop appliction they are getting this error message: Signing out/in from Office 365 and trying to activate the installation again didn’t help. Solution: To solve this issue you have to run the OSPP.vbs script located in the Office installation folder as in the screenshot below. Running the script with the /unpkey parameter removes the existing license and forces the user/client to re-register Run command prompt as administrator Navigate to the C:\Program Files (X86)\Microsoft Office\Office15(or 16) directory and execute the OSPP script: “c:\program files (86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\cscript ospp.vbs” /dstatus The last 5 characters of the installed product key are listed as well, please note them or copy them onto the Clipboard. Find that key and enter this line: “c:\program files (86)\Microsoft Office\Office15(or 16)\cscript ospp.vbs” /unpkey:last…

Oct122017 by Danilo.Omaljev@outlook.comNo Comments

Renew federation certificates for Office 365 and Azure Active Directory

Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365

Overview For successful federation between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), the certificates used by AD FS to sign security tokens to Azure AD should match what is configured in Azure AD. Any mismatch can lead to broken trust. Azure AD ensures that this information is kept in sync when you deploy AD FS and Web Application Proxy (for extranet access). This article provides you additional information to manage your token signing certificates and keep them in sync with Azure AD, in the following cases: You are not deploying the Web Application Proxy, and therefore the federation metadata is not available in the extranet. You are not using the default configuration of AD FS for token signing certificates. You are using a third-party identity…

Oct122017 by Danilo.Omaljev@outlook.comNo Comments

Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends

Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows Server

You can’t have a discussion on cloud computing lately without talking about containers. Organizations across all business segments, from banks and major financial service firms to e-commerce sites, want to understand what containers are, what they mean for applications in the cloud, and how to best use them for their specific development and IT operations scenarios. From the basics of what containers are and how they work, to the scenarios they’re being most widely used for today, to emerging trends supporting “containerization”, I thought I’d share my perspectives to better help you understand how to best embrace this important cloud computing development to more seamlessly build, test, deploy and manage your cloud applications. Containers Overview In abstract terms, all of computing is based upon running some “function” on a set…