The Error:
If you try to federate the O365 with an external authentication source you might come across the following Error.
Set-MsolDomainAuthentication : Unable to complete this action. Try again later.
At line:1 char:1
- Set-MsolDomainAuthentication -DomainName $dom -Authentication Federat …
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [Set-MsolDomainAuthentication], MicrosoftOnlineException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.InternalServiceException,Microsoft.
Online.Administration.Automation.SetDomainAuthentication
The Cause and the Solution:
What it happens basically is that federation provider’s URLs should be unique for O365, even if it is used on another Tenant this will cause an issue! The detailed reasons when you get this message that you should check for solving the issue:
- The federation URLs have a spelling error.
- The federation provider URLs are already used on another domain on that tenant.
- The federation provider URLs are already used in general in any Tenant!
$dom = “mydomain.com”
$url = “https://remote.mydomain.com/Lag/saml2/idp/SSOService.php”
$uri = “https://remote.mydomain.com/Lag/saml2/idp/metadata.php”
$logoutUrl = “https://remote.mydomain.com/Lag/saml2/idp/SingleLogoutService.php?
$cert=New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2(“C:\Scripts\Certificate.crt”)
$certData = [system.convert]::tobase64string($cert.rawdata)
Set-MsolDomainAuthentication –DomainName $dom -Authentication Federated -PassiveLogOnUri $url -ActiveLogOnUri $url -IssuerUri $uri -LogOffUri $logoutUrl -PreferredAuthenticationProtocol SAMLP -SigningCertificate $certData
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