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  • 2FA via the cloud – Cryptocard

    So many of you probably have been wondering what type of 2FA I am using for my tests. Instead of setting up internal servers, dealing with encryption keys and various tokens, I stumbled upon a cloud service that handles all of this for you. Now before we dive into the “commercial” part (although I did…

  • Office 365 – Exchange interaction Design

    Office 365 is booming.. everyday new companies decide to make the switch to easy online messaging and collaboration services on the cloud. While the cloud should make life easier for administrators, setting up the co-existence environment seems a bit harder. Although Microsoft has tons of help material available .This post is to clearify the interaction…

  • SharePoint to retrieve data from two LDAP directories

    So no posts for a long time, been busy though.. and the latest addition to this blogpost is about SharePoint. Who would have thought.. In my case the customer wanted to enrich the User profiles that came from Active Directory with Novell attributes that where in a central identity store. While SharePoint is capable of…

  • Windows Firewall through policies + SCM

    So everybody should enable firewall policies in order to keep their environment secure. Best practice is to manage the firewalls through policies.. keep a default policy to enable the firewall and do not allow incoming connections.. then based on server role add exceptions and ports. That way, each server added to the domain is secured…

  • Whoopsie, here we go again.. antivirus kills Windows

    Once in a while, antivirus companies create a new signature file that kinda stops the entire system instead of just the virus.. It’s like the docter amputates the heart of the patient, just to cure a brooze Congratulations McAffee this time: Problem Blue screen or DCOM error, followed by shutdown messages after updating to the 5958 DAT…

  • FIM RC1 U3 and admin rights

    So I tried to install the FIM RC (u3) in a demo environment, and what a hush hush was that.. My setup was fairly easy, all (except SQL) on a single box.. offcourse reading is not my best skill, but the install went fine.. and the portal was ready for the administrator account (installed it…

  • Best Practices Analyser + MOSS

    When installing MOSS in an 2008R2 environment, you will notice that the Best Practices Analyser for Sharepoint will not run.. now this is not only to the fact that the BPA is running on the 2008R2 environment, it’s when the entire sharepoint farm is running on 2008R2. One  option is to have a single 2008/2003…

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    Perhaps you dear readers want to know more about a specific thing? Take the poll .. and I will see what I can do 🙂

  • Group Policy Preferences & Drive Mappings

    When using GPP’s to map drives, some of you will notice that some drives are not correctly mapped on the clients. Some users will receive other network mappings (they “sort of” never heard of before) and some network connections are there, but will not be re-attached (device name is already in use).

  • "Windows Installer does not permit installation from a Remote Desktop Connection"

    When you try to install an MSI through an RDP connection you could get the “Windows Installer does not permit installation from a Remote Desktop Connection” dialog. Everyone seems to think that the \tsclient<drive> is a regular network share.. but it is not!.. it’s a software feature of Terminal Services service. However, if you find…

  • Poor man's iSCSI

    If you want to implement iSCSI it’s best to keep the normal network traffic and the iSCSI traffic apart from each other. And that usually means buying a 2nd switch capable of reaching high speeds and jumbo frames. Off course for production systems I recommend spending a few bucks.. however if you only want iSCSI…

  • How to hack Vista without bitlocker

    While browsing I stumbled upon a nice video explaining the trick the get a command prompt during the loginscreen of a user.. and that command prompt is in the system security context. They say physical access is full access and without bitlocker they are right.. take a look at the short video below.. http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html