Taekwondo 2nd Dan Test Essay

My Essay for My 2nd Dan Taekwondo Test … (Read More)

Updating Powershell Install-Module

Updating Powershell Install-Module … (Read More)

Doing the Basics - Escalation

Free things that’ll put you ahead of 90% of the others out there to help defend against escalation attacks Security is hard. It’s hard to understand. It’s hard to convey importance. And it’s hard to even get easy stuff prioritized over other business processes to complete. And it’s hard to get past all the marketing speak blasting in your VP’s face telling him that he needs to buy the fanciest and most expensive EDR solution with built-in AI and Machine Learning to automate all your detections and remediations and you can fire all your staff with your EDR overlord at the controls. … (Read More)

Missing Gateway in ARP Cache

The Default Gateway address is missing from my ARP cache I’m not sure how this happened or why. I have yet to dig into that rabbit hole. I had a domain controller just stop working. I couldn’t ping it or RDP to it. It seemed to happen post-reboot or post-patching. … (Read More)

LDAP Policies and Performance

“Uhg… My developers keep saying that their LDAP connections on occasion time out. Why do they keep bugging me? I can’t reproduce their issue with ldp.exe. Everything looks healthy.” OR “Hey random developer, why are you maxing out my CPU with your poorly formed LDAP query running every 5 milliseconds!?” … (Read More)

Multiple DNS Forwarders

Multiple DNS Forwarders What happens if you have multiple DNS fowarders in your DNS Server configuration? … (Read More)

Self Service File Shares : Scripts Exampling

Self-Service File Server : Scripts Exampling What’s in these scripts? And why should I care? … (Read More)

Self Service File Shares : Scripts Setup

Self-Service File Server : Scripts Setup The scripting is the fun part! Let’s make it happen! … (Read More)

Self Service File Shares : Server Setup

Self-Service File Server : Server Setup Let’s start that server up so we can start pumping out data dumps (because we all know that file shares are where data goes to die)! … (Read More)

Self Service File Shares : Overview

Self-Service File Server How can I enable my end users to self-provision their own SMB shares? How do I get them closer to their data? And why would I want to do that? Too many questions. … (Read More)

Bulk Password Reset Flag

Setting the Password Reset on Next Logon flag in bulk … (Read More)

Cross-Forest Password Reuse

What are your users doing with their multitude of accounts? Here’s what I’m dealing with. I’ve got quite a few admins. And several Windows Forests with trusts, one-way or two. All those admins have multiple accounts across those forests. And what do they do? Use the same passwords in some of their accounts. What are the repercussions and how do we fix this? … (Read More)

Credential Tiering

Credential Tiering … (Read More)

LDAP Binding

What’s the deal with Anonymous Binds? … (Read More)

Random LDAP Stuff

what am I forgetting about LDAP? … (Read More)

dotNet 2.0 on 2016

Installing .Net 2.0 on Windows Server 2016 … (Read More)

Missing Certificate Private Key

Where’s My Certificate Private Key? … (Read More)

What Are PAW's

Why Not Your Regular Workstation? … (Read More)

Windows Event Logging ...Part 2

Let’s start Configuring Logging All The Things! …Part 2 … (Read More)

Windows Event Logging ...Part 1

Let’s start Logging All The Things! …Part 1 … (Read More)

Which Cert To Use

Domain Controllers with Multiple Certificates Setup … (Read More)

Increase Your LDAP Logging

I want to find out who’s connecting to my ldap server and how they are connecting. I don’t see anything in the standard log files. I don’t want to install wireshark on my domain controller either. Where’s the beef? … (Read More)

Schema Versions for Exchange

How come I need to do AD Schema updates for every Exchange CU?! … (Read More)

Windows Defender Manual Definition Updates

Updating Defender Manually … (Read More)

Changing Your DSRM Password(s)

Using Unique DSRM Passwords … (Read More)

TLS Security and Compliance

TLS Security and Compliance I’m a bit late to this party (POODLE in 2014, PCI DSS 3.1 in 2016) but I thought I’d share some previous info I had on making sure your servers were TLS compliant. Maybe you are concerned for security or checking the box for PCI compliance. Hopefully this will help. The information below is taylored to my environments, but use this in any way helpful. … (Read More)

Using NetSH

To All the NetSH Commands I’ve Used Before. I’m writing this down so I can remember for the future. I’ve used NetSH so many times in the past and have to look all this info up every time. It’s just one of those useful tools that you don’t use every day and thus forget how to use them. … (Read More)

Default Domain Policy & Local Policy Sync

The Times When the Default Domain Policy and Local Security Policy Sync … (Read More)

Just Another Admin, Launches Site

I’m putting things on the interwebs. And putting together a central knowledge location for myself. I’m also sharing this with the world, and putting myself out there, so I can learn things in the process. … (Read More)