Unable to verify an Azure AD domain

After you’ve added a domain to Azure AD (or Office 365) using powershell, while connected to your ADFS like this:

New-MsolDomain -Name domaintest.wrish.com -Authentication Federated

When you add your verification record and try to verify the domain from the GUI you might get an error like this:

Unable to verify domain name. Ensure you have added the record above at the registrar 'contoso.com', and try again in a little while

You can’t verify your domain using the GUI when you create the Domain using powershell, instead you have to confirm the domain using powershell while entering all Federation options. You will need to pass the following:

  • IssuerURI
  • ActiveLogOnUri
  • LogOffUri
  • PassiveLogOnUri

You can pass whatever you like to these values and then just update the domain federation data afterwards

Confirm-MsolDomain -domainname domaintest.wrish.com -IssuerUri http://whatever/ -ActiveLogOnUri https://whatever/ -LogOffUri https://whatever/ -PassiveLogOnUri https://whatever/
Update-MsolFederatedDomain -DomainName domaintest.wrish.com -SupportMultipleDomain $true