Group Policy Extensions

24th September 2020

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…

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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…

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Active Directory Health Check

14th September 2020

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…

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Remove WSUS automated updates

11th September 2020

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…

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Networking Basics

12th August 2020

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…

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2FA is Safer but not Safe

6th August 2020

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…

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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…

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Error publishing Apps in RdWeb

5th August 2020

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…

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Preventing file-less malware the cheap and hacky way

4th August 2020

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…

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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…

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