Issue with using Windows Server 2012 RRAS as a local VPN device with Microsoft Azure when WAN interface has DHCP assigned IP address

In my personal lab I use a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running on a local Hyper-V server as my VPN device to connect to a Microsoft Azure Virtual Network gateway. This setup has been working fine for quite some time, and is indeed a supported configuration. Recently though I could not make it connect. …

Get-ADUser quirkiness

So I was trying to find all the users in an Active Directory domain that had a manager. Naturally I turned to PowerShell and the Get-ADUser cmdlet. First I tried this: Get-ADUser -Properties Manager -Filter { manager -like “*” } That threw this error: Get-ADUser : Operator(s): The following: ”Eq’, ‘Ne” are the only operator(s) …