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Controlling connections to Azure VMs using the just in time (JIT) policy of Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) certainly improves the overall security… Read the rest “Quick Tip – Easily Allow JIT to Azure VMs In A Resource Group”
Manually starting up lab VMs is painfully slow, and since many organisations will implement management policy to auutomatically shut them down to save… Read the rest “Quick Tip – Easily Start All Azure VMs In A Particular Resource Group”
The November 8, 2022 and later Windows updates address a security bypass and elevation of privilege vulnerability with Authentication Negotiation by … Read the rest “Kerberos Issues November 2022”
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) uses endpoints to provide access to features. There are a series of different endpoints which each serve… Read the rest “Check If AD FS WSTrust Endpoint Enabled”
Having to host, upgrade and manage WordPress is not really my main job. The various posts over the years will provide a small clue that other things … Read the rest “WordPress Linux Web App Poor Performance”
There are a multitude of online tools that help diagnose issues with various mail services, but understanding what these tools actually check is valua… Read the rest “How to Use NsLookup To Check DKIM Record”
Rather than kicking it old school and using the classic tools such as AD Users & Computers (dsa.msc) to move FSMO roles, PowerShell makes it nice … Read the rest “Move FSMO Roles Using PowerShell”
Back in the year 2014 the post How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange was released to help create TLS certificates. One of the main u… Read the rest “How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange–Updated 2022”
Welcome to 2022 and a new release of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) version 2.90!
The Sysinternals blog lists the following changes to RDCMa… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90”
Imagine that you have two certificates installed, but for whatever reason the same friendly name was used for both of them. You can certainly identit… Read the rest “Change Certificate Friendly Name To Unique Value”