Group Policy is great for enforcing settings on a domain or group of users. You can also add extensions to support M$ Office, Chrome etc extensions come as a set [ … ]
Find Unsigned and old drivers in Windows10
Unsigned and old drivers can cause Windows to blue screen in the search or cortana box type verifier, should be only 1 result, run it Driver Verifier Manager will ask [ … ]
Active Directory Health Check
PingCastle does a really nice report on where the problems with active directory are with great descriptions of how to fix each problem. Can’t recommend this enough. Did you know [ … ]
Remove WSUS automated updates
WSUS was a necessary evil in the Windows 7 days. Today Windows 10 can still be messed up and we are still Beta testers, but the bad guys are taking [ … ]
Networking Basics
To make networking more modular OSI has broken down networking into 7 layers. The top 4 Host layers happen in a computer in the Application or Operating system. The bottom [ … ]
2FA is Safer but not Safe
2FA does increase website security but don’t think this makes you purely Safe. Web pages were originally designed to be state-less when they only showed public information. As the technology [ … ]
Update Yubikey < 2018
Make sure your Yubikey 4, SmartCards and TPM chips are made AFTER 2018. Infineon generated RSA keys 2048 and smaller (most of them) were flawed in a way that made [ … ]
Error publishing Apps in RdWeb
Applications look like they are published correctly but don’t show on the main web page when a user logs in . fix this This could be a clue Re-download your [ … ]
Preventing file-less malware the cheap and hacky way
create a .bat or .cmd script with the following lines in it. I called mine PowershellPS1-Disassociate.cmd : This script prevents file-less malware from running by associating : powershell and visual [ … ]
Deleting users from a Fortigate Firewall
When trying to delete a user the Delete button can be Greyed out. A user can’t be deleted until they are removed from all groups and rules. The far right [ … ]