by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 11, 2017 | Tips & Tricks
I recently had someone ask if there was a way to get rid of those pesky “Extra Registry Settings” that sometimes appear in a GPO settings report in GPMC. You know, the ones that look like this: These settings arise...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 22, 2017 | Security Policy, Uncategorized
Delegation–A Blessing or a Curse? I’ve been wanting to sit down and write this blog post about AD information exposure for a couple of weeks now, and am finally finding the time to do so. For those of you who follow my blog, you know that I posted nearly a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 23, 2017 | Security-related
I saw a humorous tweet today that said something to the effect that the number of blog posts about the recent “WannaCry” ransomware attack have now exceeded the number of infected machines. I am loathe to add truth to that saying, but I, of course, have...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 20, 2017 | Tips & Tricks
Now that the Windows 10 “Creators Update” is available, Microsoft has made the ADMX files for this new Windows 10 release available for download. As I mentioned in my last blog post, you can no longer guarantee that new ADMX files are backward compatible...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 30, 2017 | Tips & Tricks
Microsoft has recently put out several articles explaining some of the nuances of ADMX files in the new world of Windows-as-a-Service–where new Windows builds come out frequently and often ship with new versions of ADMX templates. I’ve blogged...
