remotewebaccess.com Anywhere access broken on Server 2016 Again?

ChrisWY27 126 Reputation points
2022-05-04T19:46:51.657+00:00

Last year a similar issue occurred and by manually applying the registry edits from these two threads most seemed to resolve their issues:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/319165/remotewebaccesscom-down-again.html?childToView=836766#answer-836766

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/318584/are-the-problems-with-remotewebaccesscom-domain-an.html?page=2&pageSize=10&sort=oldest

The problem is as of yesterday (May 3 2022) I am now experiencing the issue again. Re-applying the registry tweaks does not solve the issue either unfortunately. More so, I am not able to un-register my domain through the wizard or change to a new one, I am seeing the same issue as this user on their fresh install: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/814489/cloud-services-integration-amp-anywhere-access-not.html?childToView=836816#answer-836816

Looking at my Dashboard.log in the ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Logs folder I see the below:

[5840] 220504.122339.7059: DomainConfigWizard: Next Page: progressPage
[6024] 220504.122340.0497: DomainManagerObjectModel: InvokeAsync: action resulted in exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException1[Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.RemoteAccess.Domains.DomainManagerFault]: The creator of this fault did not specify a Reason. (Fault Detail is equal to DomainManagerFault:[Reason:CommunicationFailure, Message:CommitDomain failed, Detail:System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Live Dynamic DNS has encountered an internal error. This error has been logged. ---> Microsoft.Rest.Azure.CloudException: The access token is from the wrong issuer 'https://sts.windows.net/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47/'. It must match the tenant 'https://sts.windows.net/33e01921-4d64-4f8c-a055-5bdaffd5e33d/' associated with this subscription. Please use the authority (URL) 'https://login.windows.net/33e01921-4d64-4f8c-a055-5bdaffd5e33d' to get the token. Note, if the subscription is transferred to another tenant there is no impact to the services, but information about new tenant could take time to propagate (up to an hour). If you just transferred your subscription and see this error message, please try back later. at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.DDNS.AzureRmDnsServer.GetARecords(String domainName) in E:\WSE-ServicesAndTools\src\ServicesAndTools\DDNS\DDNS\AzureR...). [6024] 220504.122340.0497: DomainManagerObjectModel: InvokeAsync: handling exception by transferring to eventArgs [5840] 220504.122340.0653: DomainConfigWizard: Error occurred in Domain Manager Object Model operations: System.ServiceModel.FaultException1[Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.RemoteAccess.Domains.DomainManagerFault]: The creator of this fault did not specify a Reason. (Fault Detail is equal to DomainManagerFault:[Reason:CommunicationFailure, Message:CommitDomain failed, Detail:System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Live Dynamic DNS has encountered an internal error. This error has been logged. ---> Microsoft.Rest.Azure.CloudException: The access token is from the wrong issuer 'https://sts.windows.net/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47/'. It must match the tenant 'https://sts.windows.net/33e01921-4d64-4f8c-a055-5bdaffd5e33d/' associated with this subscription. Please use the authority (URL) 'https://login.windows.net/33e01921-4d64-4f8c-a055-5bdaffd5e33d' to get the token. Note, if the subscription is transferred to another tenant there is no impact to the services, but information about new tenant could take time to propagate (up to an hour). If you just transferred your subscription and see this error message, please try back later.
at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.DDNS.AzureRmDnsServer.GetARecords(String domainName) in E:\WSE-ServicesAndTools\src\ServicesAndTools\DDNS\DDNS\AzureR...).
[5840] 220504.122340.0653: DomainConfigWizard: FailReason from Domain Manager Object Model operations: CommunicationFailure

This gives some insight to the root cause but I am not sure how to go from here to fix this.

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  1. Samriddhi Chaturvedi 216 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-05-14T00:32:02.177+00:00

    We were able to get things working on our local test setups.
    Can you please verify your setups and see if the issue went away for you.

    Thanks and Regards
    Samriddhi

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  1. Michel Mohr 6 Reputation points
    2022-05-14T01:10:11.263+00:00

    Hi Samriddhi, I just tested it on one of my clients, it's working again, thank you very much.

    Greetings from Northern Germany
    Michel Mohr

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  2. AITD-Jon 11 Reputation points
    2022-05-14T02:26:18.16+00:00

    I can confirm a Windows Server Essentials 2012R2 VM was able to update DNS tonight with a new dynamic IP.

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  3. Danny Andonoff 21 Reputation points
    2022-05-14T12:07:56.693+00:00

    Thank you it's working for me as well.

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  4. mcbsys 126 Reputation points
    2022-05-14T17:44:29.75+00:00

    Thank you @Samriddhi Chaturvedi for working the problem and @Richard Hay for looping in the right people.

    I'm also very concerned to understand whether Microsoft is committed to supporting the Essentials features through the EOL date of January 2027. What happened this time, why do things keep breaking, why is it always a surprise to Microsoft, and why do we need to rely on the kindness of @Susan Bradley to rattle enough cages to wake Microsoft up to the problem? Many of us have built a business around the Microsoft platform and its supposed commitment to a product lifecycle, only to feel like Essentials has been forgotten and abandoned.

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