active directory
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Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2025 Active Directory New Features
Windows Server 2025 contains many great new improvements from previous versions of Windows Server. One of the areas where we are seeing many new features and capabilities introduced is Active Directory, including a new domain functional level and forest functional…
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ActiveDirectory
Active Directory Users and Computers: Ultimate Management an Security Guide
There are many tools to manage Active Directory. Let’s take a look at using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) and see how you can use it to manage and secure your AD DS environment. Table of contentsWhat is Active…
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ActiveDirectory
Check Server Replication Status in Active Directory
DCDiag is a great command line tool to troubleshoot Active Directory replication
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Powershell
Create and Configure PacRequestorEnforcement Registry Key with PowerShell
As a follow-up to the news that Microsoft is rolling out a new Kerberos configuration change to remediate security vulnerability CVE-2021-42287. Starting with the rollout of the November 2021 security patches, Microsoft has introduced a new registry key that controls…
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ActiveDirectory
Domain Controller PacRequestorEnforcement Registry Key – Enable Audit and Enforcement
In case you didn’t already know, Microsoft is addressing critical vulnerabilities in the way Active Directory authentication works, specifically related to the KDC and Kerberos tickets. It will fundamentally change the way domain controllers can interact with one another and…
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Security
Patch two new Active Directory privilege escalation bugs
If Log4j wasn’t enough, Microsoft has upped the alert on two new Active Directory bugs that now have a PoC tool in the wild. What are the new Active Directory bugs that need attention from enterprise customers? Let’s take a…
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ActiveDirectory
Active Directory LDAP Channel Binding Patch Coming in March
Update – It appears that Microsoft will not be changing the defaults with the rollouts in March https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html Have you heard about the change coming to the way connections will be made by default to Active Directory? Microsoft is has…
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Automation
Configure Ansible Windows Server Kerberos authentication in Ubuntu
Managing Windows Servers with Ansible is a powerful way to perform configuration management and to remediate configuration skew in a server environment. As we have already explored basic Windows Server automation with Ansible and how to bootstrap Windows Server configuration…
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NSX
Add VMware NSX Identity Source Domain
VMware NSX is a powerful tool to not only abstract your virtual networking from the underlying physical infrastructure, but also secure your environment. As we had shown in the previous post, we can easily create firewall rules to restrict access…
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Computers
Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 released with new features
For those who were extremely excited for the news of the Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 beta release will be even more excited as the official v7 release is now available! This new release of Nakivo moves the NBR product…
