Why you should not use CNAME record for your Azure hosted AD FS servers

​Most articles you will find on the internet, which provide instructions about installing your AD FS server (farm) in Azure, will advise you to publish the external DNS record as CNAME. There is some advantages in doing so – since Azure is public cloud service, the VIP of the service …

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Endless loop in OWA with error about incorrect permissions

Another random discovery, this time it’s nothing serious. While I was trying to reproduce the OWA hold issue using only folder permissions, I run into this endlessly looping error message. Not really a major issue, but certainly causes an inconvenience (especially to EO users that might not have access to Outlook). …

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One more thing to remember when troubleshooting free/busy issues (EwsAllowOutlook and similar)

We often joke with my colleagues about our age that ​we need to take our ‘old-man’ pills to treat our forgetfulness (Our age is actually pretty young compared to what the average age of IT experts is in other countries). Well, there is definitely a reason in my case… Here’s how …

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