Notes from the field: some common dependencies for Microsoft 365 deployments https://ift.tt/3eyV7uZ My blog posts take a while to get published these days. I struggle to find the time to write them and often a few notes can remain in draft form for a long time. Some of those notes never make it. Others possibly […]
Caching Domain Logon Credentials on Windows https://ift.tt/3fZ0RiS When a domain user logs on to Windows, their credentials are saved on a local computer by default (Cached Credentials: a user name and a password hash). This allows the user to logon to the computer even if the AD domain controllers are unavailable, powered off, or the […]
Apply a Local Group Policy to Non-Admins or a Single User with MLGPO https://ift.tt/3vrhCZ4 You can use Local Group Policy to configure Windows or user settings on computers in small workgroup networks (without an AD domain). Earlier, the main disadvantage of a local GPO was the inability to apply the policy settings to the specific […]
How to create a NAT-Switch on Hyper-V with PowerShell https://ift.tt/3umSvX3 NAT is a technology to convert IP addresses. If you have a test environment then it might be necessary that your VMs need an internet connection and that you don’t want to use the external switch for that. In this blog post I will cover […]
Security by Design with #Azure Security Center and Azure Defender #ASC #Security #SecOps https://ift.tt/3exkdcX Azure Architecture Security by Design is increasingly becoming the mainstream development approach to ensure security of software systems. Security architectural design decisions are based on well-known security tactics, and patterns defined as reusable techniques for achieving specific quality concerns. In the […]
Azure Network Security Hygiene with Traffic Analytics https://ift.tt/2QSfzxT Hello, dear readers! My name is Hélder Pinto and I am sharing here some tips about how to leverage NSG Flow Logs and Traffic Analytics to improve your Azure network security hygiene and, at the end, simplify your NSG rules and, more importantly, uncover security vulnerabilities. […]
You Might Want to Audit Your LAPS Permissions…. https://ift.tt/2Qq13h1 Deploy LAPS, Check! You’re all set, right? Maybe… Hi team, Eric Jansen here again; I’m back after being reminded by a friend and reader that I’ve been away for too long. I’m trying to be better about it since I have a ton of content that I’d like to share and talk about, but these days it all comes down to […]
Why Hyper-V Live Migrations Fail with 0x8009030E https://ift.tt/3lSZAex Hi everyone, my name is Tobias Kathein and I’m a Senior Engineer in Microsoft’s Customer Success Unit. Together with my colleagues Victor Zeilinger, Serge Gourraud and Rodrigo Sanchez from Customer Service & Support we’re going to discuss a real-world scenario in which a customer was unable […]
Enable Remote Desktop remotely with PowerShell (Enable-RemoteDesktop) https://ift.tt/3wOckZ1 Forgot to enable remote desktop? This is bad. The only solution is to go back to the remote computer and then enable RD. Not really. In this blog post I will show you how you can enable RD with PowerShell. Let’s jump in. The Objective We want […]
Enable Windows Lock Screen after Inactivity via GPO https://ift.tt/2PEJXM8 In this article we’ll show how to configure automatic screen (session) lock on domain computers or servers using Group Policy. Locking the computer screen when the user is inactive (idle) is an important information security element. The user may forget to lock his desktop (with the […]
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