Storage Replica is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that allows us to do storage-agnostic block-level replication of data.
Source : 4sysops
Source : 4sysops
Source : 4sysops
Hi all,
I’m Jeff Patterson, Program Manager for Work Folders and Offline Files.
Jane wrote a blog last year which covers how to use Folder Redirection with Work Folders. The blog is great for new environments. If Folder Redirection and Offline Files are currently used, there are some additional steps that need to be performed which are covered in this migration guide.
Server Storage at Microsoft
VSCode is the primary way to edit and debug PowerShell scripts on Mac OS and Linux. If you do not have it yet, follow these instructions on GitHub on installing VSCode on Mac OS/Linux/Windows and adding its PowerShell extension.
Source : Dmitry's Blog
As you have probably heard by now, Microsoft has just open-sourced PowerShell and made it available for Linux and Mac OS X. In this blog post, I will take you through the steps to download, install and run PowerShell on a Mac.
Source : Dmitry's Blog
As you can see this announcement is huge – not only you can freely read and change the code of the PowerShell itself, you can build it and run it almost anywhere.
Source : www.powershellmagazine.com
The Connect app in Windows 10 Anniversary Update gives smartphone users the ability to “cast” their screens to a PC or laptop running Microsoft’s latest version of its ever-evolving operating system. Let’s call this feature the “poor-man’s Continuum.” But, more importantly, it gives Android users something that has been solely constrained to Windows devices – the ability to mirror smartphone and tablet screens to Windows 10. Notably, this feature doesn’t work for iOS and the host device must support Miracast.
Source : SuperSite for Windows
Excellent tool to search for WordPress vulnerabilities !
Source : GitHub - googleinurl/SCANNER-INURLBR
Advanced search in search engines, enables analysis provided to exploit GET / POST capturing emails & urls, with an internal custom validation junction for each target / url found
Source : GitHub - googleinurl/SCANNER-INURLBR
Although Microsoft provides Windows Defender as an integrated part of Windows 10 they do not mandate that as your only option.
Once you install your favorite third party anti-virus/malware solution Windows Defender gets out of the way and is turned off so it does not cause any conflicts with your scanning/protection software of choice.
In the recently released Windows 10 Anniversary Update there is a new option for those of you using third party security software that allows you to take advantage of the years worth of research Microsoft has invested into protecting systems from viruses and malware.
Source : SuperSite for Windows
So as many of you may know, yesterday Microsoft released a security hotfix that changed the behavior of Group Policy. Put simply if you have a security group filtered User Group Policy Object and you also removed the “Authenticated Users” group from the policy it will no longer apply after you install MS16-072.
Source : Group Policy Central
To build fast sites, developers need powerful tools to analyze the performance of their sites and debug issues. In-browser tools like the F12 Developer Tools are a great start and the primary tools for analyzing what’s happening behind the scenes when a page slows down. However, some scenarios require measuring performance characteristics in the context of other applications and the operating system itself. For these scenarios, we use the Windows Performance Toolkit.
Source : Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
IIS is a mature technology with a large amount of configuration available. Historically the configuration of IIS has been done through WMI, Appcmd, PowerShell, and graphically through IIS Manager. All of these technologies have continued to serve their purpose, allowing users to configure the web server to meet their needs. Recently the IIS team has been working on a project to open up IIS configuration even more by creating a REST API that exposes the configuration system. This API is not meant to replace any of the existing configuration access mechanisms, but stand beside them and offer an open method for interacting with IIS. The REST API communicates with HTTPS making it accessible from any device that knows how to send a web request. This allows IIS to be configured more freely and opens the door for configuration clients that were not possible before, such as mobile applications.
Today we want to not only let everyone know that we are working on a REST API for IIS, we also want to let you see it. The API that we have created has a built in tool called the API Explorer that allows those with access to the API to browse the entire API surface. This means once you have a link to the root URL of the API you can navigate to this tool and browse all of the API that is available. Here is a picture of the API Explorer in action displaying an application pool resource.
Source : blogs.iis.net
A set of functions to dump OUs, Users, Groups and GPOs from one Active Directory and mirror them to another, test Active Directory. Perfect for creating a test environment.
Source : gallery.technet.microsoft.com
I’ve lost count of the number of Wi-Fi routers I’ve been through over the last ten years, most ranging from just OK to the plain terrible. When I started experiencing problems with WI-FI connectivity a few months ago, I decided once again it was time to replace my router, and after lots of research, I picked the Asus RT-AC66U.
SOurce : Petri
A new update is available for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. This update requires manual steps in order to complete the installation. While the KB itself covers those steps, this post provides additional details on the release.
Source : WSUS Product Team Blog
If its happen that you like to run your honeypot on a Windows system then Honeyport is something worth to try.
Honeyports is a powershell script that will Creates a job that listens on TCP Ports specified and when a connection is established, it can either simply log or add a local firewall rule to block the host from further connections.
The script is written by John Hoyt, Carlos Perez and Greg Foss and it’s available on https://github.com/Pwdrkeg/honeyport/
Source InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog
Hi all, Herbert Mauerer here. In this post we’re back to talk about the built-in AD Diagnostics Data collector set available for Active Directory Performance (ADPERF) issues and how to ensure a useful report is generated when your DCs are under heavy load.
Source : Ask the Directory Services Team
