TransientServiceErrorException trying to call Update-MsolFederatedDomain

Chuck Herrington

11/14/23, 8:32 PM

I am trying to migrate from an older 2012 R2 server with ADFS to a newer 2019 ADFS farm. Years ago, I followed the MS guides to federate with Office 365, and it has been working fine with the older server. Now I want to update Office365 to use our new server.

The old setup used the DNS name adfs.mydomain.com The new setup uses the DNS name sso.mydomain.com

Both ADFS instances are running ok, although the old one is having intermittent issues.

I have read several guides, including this one.

I connected with Connect-MSOLService
I called Set-MSOLADContext trying both the FQDN of the server and the DNS name sso.mydomain.com
I called Update-MSOLFederatedDomain However here, I get an exception that I cannot find any detail for:

Update-MsolFederatedDomain : Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.TransientServiceErrorException
At line:1 char:1
+ Update-MsolFederatedDomain -DomainName mydomain.com -verbose
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Update-MsolFederatedDomain], FederationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.TransientServiceErrorException,Microsoft.Online.Identity.Federation.Powershell.UpdateFederatedDomainCommand

Has anyone run into this before?

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