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This article demonstrates the settings required on Windows and pfSense to get a Windows Built-In VPN to work between the two. It’s actually pretty easy. This article is more a confirmation of settings than a guide. Make sure you have the firewall rules configured on the pfSense WAN interface. We’re
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This article is a check list of the critical items to check to ensure your computers are baseline secure. Of course, baseline is something you should determine, not me. Here;s a quick list. You may be able to use InTune to manage these items and more. Windows Updates Make sure
Read moreThis article demonstrates how to enforce 2FA for users of Azure and Office 365. Depending on your license levels, you may not get all the settings that Microsoft article recommend, so this article covers the bare minimum. Microsoft has an overarching enforcement settings which needs to be set (although it
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This article shows how to install Docker for Windows 10 (and probably 11), and then start a web server in a Docker container. Install Docker Visit “https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop” and download Docker installer. Start the installation process (you’ll need local admin privileges). During the installation process, the wizard will ask if you
Read moreWindows 10 allows you to get into a situation where you can’t change your PIN? Worse, you can’t set a password. This article explains how to solve this strange situation. Our objective here is to set a password and change our PIN number. Just setting a password isn’t solving the
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This article demonstrates how to mount “https://live.sysinternals.com/tools” on Linux so that it’s accessible at “/mnt/sysinternals”, for example. On CentOS: yum install davfs2 On Ubuntu: apt install davfs2 Mount it: mount -t davfs https://live.sysinternals.com/tools /mnt/sysinternals Now you can access it at: # ls /mnt/sysinternals/ accesschk64.exe diskext.exe pipelist.exe RegDelNull.exe accesschk.exe Diskmon.exe PORTMON.CNT
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This article explains how to extract various Windows dumps of passwords from a target system. To follow along with this article, you’ll need to have administrative access to the target Windows machine, and any endpoint security will need to be tolerant of your activities. Any good AV will likely prevent
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We don’t tend to install Windows very often these days. It seems to be far more stable than the old days and it mostly just works. But from time to time we do need to install it fresh and there’s a list of things we need to do to make
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If you have a “Work or School” Office 365 account, you’re likely able to use it as your Windows Domain service, allowing you go join your Windows 10 Pro (or higher, but not Home) to it as a domain member much like you would with an on-prem domain controller We’ll
Read moreThis article shows a one lines (well, 4 lines) that output any updates that are waiting to be installed on your local computer. Open PowerShell and run the following commands: $UpdateSession = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session $UpdateSearcher = $UpdateSession.CreateupdateSearcher() $Updates = @($UpdateSearcher.Search(“IsHidden=0 and IsInstalled=0”).Updates) $Updates | Select-Object Title The output should
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