How to update meta data in a Relying Party Trust in ADFS

First you should note the name of the Relying Party Trust with the following command.

PS C:\Windows\system32>get-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust | ft name

once you get the name of the Relying Party Trust which you want to update, use the following command


PS C:\Windows\system32> update-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -targetName "Planning & Budgeting " -MetadataFile "C:\Users\adc\Desktop\DataCloud.xml"

The specific error code was 0xC00402C7

"The specific error code was 0xC00402C7."

After installing/configuring SMTP server in windows server 2016 IIS. I was unable to send emails through this new SMTP to any domains. Mails were getting stuck in "C:\inetpub\mailroot\Badmail" folder.
after opening one of notepad file in this path. the error "The specific error code was 0xC00402C7." was mentioned there in the failed logs (notepad files).
Secondly, in the system logs of the SMTP server, getting the event ID=4007, with below detail as warning.

"Message delivery to the host '14.47.3.33' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'live.com' for the following reason: An SMTP protocol error occurred.
 The SMTP verb which caused the error is 'MAIL'.  The response from the remote server is '550 5.7.1 Service unavailable, Client host [18.176.15.17] blocked using Spamhaus. To request remo'."

So have to first check in black provider list and yes found there that my IP was appearing there as in PBL.
so putted the request there to whitelist my server IP and wait for some time.

Now after waiting for some more than a hour, tested again and were able to send emails to any domain.

Unable to install CMS database for skype for business 2015 in SQL server 2016

Have recently migrated from Lync server 2010 to Skype for business 2015. All users migrated to skype for business 2015 and as a last step trying to move the CMS database from Lync server 2010 to skype for business 2015.
As mentioned in( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lyncserver/move-the-lync-server-2010-central-management-server-to-lync-server-2013 ) for CMS migration, first to install the CMS database on the skype for business 2015 FE server but while trying the (Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SQLServerFQDN C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com -SQLInstanceName RTC) command, getting the below error.
Now if we look into the error, it is mention that (Install-CsDatabase : Failed to connect to the SQL server C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com\RTC) means unable to connect to the RTC instance. and yes the RTC instance was not in the SQL server, so we have to create the RTC instance in SQL server or have to use the install-csdatabase command without the -SQLInstanceName switch, which is an easy way. so the required database will be created in the default install of SQL server. so we change the command to (Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SQLServerFQDN C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com) and the below error was gone. the LIS and XDS databases were created within SQL default instance. and the issue was resolved.


Error:
Loading Modules for Skype for Business Server 2015...
PS C:\Users\User> Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SQLServerFQDN C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com -SQLInstance
Name RTC
****Creating DbSetupInstance for 'Microsoft.Rtc.Common.Data.XdsDatabase'****
Trying to connect to Sql Server C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com\RTC. using windows authentication...
Exception Stack:
Type: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException, Message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Type: Microsoft.Rtc.Common.Data.DbSetupSqlServiceNotInstalledException, Message: Failed to find SQL Service. Make sure t
hat SQL Server service (instance name RTC) is installed in machine C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com
Install-CsDatabase : Failed to connect to the SQL server C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com\RTC.
At line:1 char:1
+ Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SQLServerFQDN C01ict-S ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:SourceCollection) [Install-CsDatabase], DbSetupSqlServiceNotInstalled
   Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SqlConnectionFailure,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.InstallDatabaseCmdlet
****Creating DbSetupInstance for 'Microsoft.Rtc.Common.Data.LisDatabase'****
Trying to connect to Sql Server C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com\RTC. using windows authentication...
Exception Stack:
Type: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException, Message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Type: Microsoft.Rtc.Common.Data.DbSetupSqlServiceNotInstalledException, Message: Failed to find SQL Service. Make sure that SQL Server service (instance name RTC) is installed in machine C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com
Install-CsDatabase : Failed to connect to the SQL server C01ict-SFBdb.abc.domain.com\RTC.
At line:1 char:1
+ Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SQLServerFQDN C01ict-S ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:SourceCollection) [Install-CsDatabase], DbSetupSqlServiceNotInstalled
   Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SqlConnectionFailure,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.InstallDatabaseCmdlet
WARNING: Install-CsDatabase failed.
WARNING: Detailed results can be found at
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\Install-CsDatabase-975ca94c-1c88-41bd-80e4-54e4265b8dc8.html".
PS C:\Users\User>

unable to share files through skype for business 2015 between internal and external users

Hi,
on the front end servers of Skype for business 2015, i was getting Errors/informaitons, with event IDs:  41024,41025, 41026
Event: 41024
No connectivity with one of the Web Conferencing Edge Servers.
Edge Server Machine FQDN: server1.domain.com, Port:8057
If the problem persists this event will be logged again after 20 minutes
Cause: Service may be unavailable or Network connectivity may have been compromised.


Event ID: 41025
Connection to the Web Conferencing Edge Server has succeeded
Edge Server Machine FQDN: server1.domain.com, Port:8057
Event ID: 41026
No connectivity with any of Web Conferencing Edge Servers. External Skype for Business clients cannot use Web Conferencing modality.
Cause: Service may be unavailable or Network connectivity may have been compromised.
Resolution:
Verify all Web Conferencing Edge Services in the topology are running, and network connectivity is available.

Errors:
No connectivity with one of the Web Conferencing Edge Servers.
Edge Server Machine FQDN: server1.domain.com, Port:8057
If the problem persists this event will be logged again after 20 minutes
Cause: Service may be unavailable or Network connectivity may have been compromised.

Solution:
add the following key to resolve this issue.
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319\System.Net.ServicePointManager.RequireCertificateEKUs /v “C:\Program Files\Skype for Business Server 2015\Web Conferencing\DataMCUSvc.exe” /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f


After adding the above key on the front end servers and restarting the "Skype for Business server web conferencing" service, the above errors were not appearing any more and the issue of file shares etc. was resolved.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4023993/ls-data-mcu-41026-41025-and-41024-after-may-2017-net-framework-update

How to find that from which Windows update server (WSUS) your client machine getting updates

Just go to the following path in the registry key and you will have the name of the server.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

WUStatusServer: http://servername.dom.com:8530

There has been some issue identified and fixed with LDM. Please uninstall the LDM through control panel and click here to install the latest version.

I was getting the following error while trying to download any file from Microsoft site (https://learningdownloadcenter.microsoft.com/Home/DownloadQueue).

Error

""ALERT: There has been some issue identified and fixed with LDM. Please uninstall the LDM through control panel and click here to install the latest version. Apologies for the inconvenience. The later versions of LDM should be able to update through automatic update prompts and would not require the manual uninstall step. "

My issue was resolved in this way.

 1: Download the latest LDM from Microsoft official site

 2: Once the download complete then RUN the installation

 3: In installation it detected the old install LDM so it ask for Repair and uninstall of old LDM

 4: Select Uninstall the old LDM

 5: then re-RUN the installation of latest LDM

 6: after successful installation, my issue was resolved. 

Lync Server Access Edge was unable to start

Error in system logs in event viewer
"The Lync Server Access Edge service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146762487."

Reason:
The root CA who issued certificate for lync edge server, certificate was not in the intermediated certificate store of edge server.
after importing the CA certificate in intermediate store, the Lync Server Access Edge service was started normally and the above error from the event viewer was also removed.