Month: January 2022

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
RDCMan 2.90

Welcome to 2022 and a new release of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) version 2.90!

The Sysinternals blog lists the following changes to RDCMan which are well worth reviewing from a security standpoint.

Receives support for Restricted Admin (/restrictedAdmin from mstsc) and Remote Credential Guard (/remoteGuard from mstsc) and bug fixes.

RDCMan Version 2.90

Below you can see the Security Settings tab with these… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90”

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Review Azure AD Connect Synchronisation Scope

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Review Azure AD Connect Synchronisation Scope

As part of your regular security and operations review, it is important to check and verify the configuration of Azure AD Connect.  Ensuring the OS and Azure AD Connect are up to date is one aspect.  In this post we want to look at the scope of objects which connect is synchronising.  This is valuable for a few reasons. For example:

  • Many folks have installed Azure AD Connect did configured any filt
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Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process–Revisited

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously we looked at the Office 2010 client and how it used Autodiscover to detect Exchange Online (EXO) mailbox settings.  Outlook 2010 is no longer supported, so it is worth updating these notes for a current build of Outlook.

As with the previous post, this is intended as a point in time reference as I personally find it handy as an ongoing reference.  In the updated example below a fully patc… Read the rest “Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process–Revisited”

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Change Certificate Friendly Name To Unique Value

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Imagine that you have two certificates installed, but for whatever reason the same friendly name was used for both of them.  You can certainly identity each of them by comparing the valid from/valid to dates or the thumbprint.  That adds just a little extra overhead that you may not want to deal with.

As an alternative, you can modify the friendly name  to a more suitable value.  This allows you to… Read the rest “Change Certificate Friendly Name To Unique Value”