Tag: windows server 2012 r2

Securing RDP with IPSec

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Hi Everyone, this is Jerry Devore back with a follow-up topic from my previous post on Privileged Administrative Workstations (PAW) which is a hardened device configuration used to protect privileged credentials. In that post, I mentioned that it is possible to use IPsec to ensure an admin can only make a RDP connection to Tier… Read more

Viewing Memory in PowerShell

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Hello there, this is Benjamin Morgan, and I’m a Premier Field Engineer covering Active Directory and Platforms related topics.  This is my first blog post I hope you are all as excited about this as I am! Today I wanted to talk with you about a couple of quick ways for querying system memory (and provide… Read more

Using Computer Name Aliases in place of DNS CNAME Records

by BrandonWilson // 9 Comments

Hi everyone. Graeme Bray here with an article around using Computer Name Aliases instead of DNS CName records.  In the past, we used to set the registry key DisableStrictNameChecking to be able to add a DNS alias to connect via a name (such as fileserver.contoso.com).  Starting with Windows Server 2008, we added functionality to be… Read more

Hey Dude, Where’s My Winlogon.log?

by BrandonWilson // 2 Comments

Hi this is Michael from the PMC PFE Team, I recently helped a customer during the implementation of their Windows Server 2016 systems. When checking the Event viewer, we spotted a well-known Event ID: Log Name:      Application Source:        SceCli Date:          08.03.2017 17:49:21 Event ID:      1202 Task Category: None Level:         Warning Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:     … Read more

Network Capture Best Practices

by BrandonWilson // 1 Comments

Hi Diddly Doodly readers. Michael Rendino here again with a follow up to my “Basic Network Capture Methods” blog, this time to give some best practices on network capture collection when troubleshooting. As you may have guessed, one of my favorite tools, due to my years in networking support, is the network capture. It can… Read more

How to Secure an ARM-based Windows Virtual Machine RDP access in Azure

by BrandonWilson // 0 Comments

  Hi, Mark Rowe here, and I am the creator of Augmented Living, a Developer/Architect for Microsoft’s Modern Applications Solution Center as a senior consultant, and a long-time Microsoft fanboy and blogger. One of the most hit aspects of security is RDP on the default ports with poor password governance. People are busy, we all… Read more

Top Ten Issues with Active Directory Trusts and Corporate Mergers

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Hey Everyone. Randy, Premier Field Engineer, here to discuss some lessons learned from working with a recent merger between two corporations. I don’t have enough time or space to go into the details of this major endeavor, so I am going to talk about this experience with a “Top Ten Countdown” style BLOG POST. I’m… Read more

Build an Inexpensive Learning Machine

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This blog post brought to you by eighteen year veteran Microsoft Premier Field Engineer David Morgan. Goal of this Post In this post, I’ll be showing you one method you can build out an entire environment that you can use to deploy servers, clients, Microsoft and third party applications; i.e. anything that can be deployed… Read more

Turn on that Scary DC

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Stephen Mathews here; now tell me, do you have a domain controller you’re afraid to turn on? Maybe it lost power and nobody noticed for a couple months or you don’t trust your AD restore procedures; perhaps a troubled DC keeps deleting your DNS records – whatever happened, I’m going to show you how to… Read more