by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 17, 2017 | General Stuff
If you’ve been in the Microsoft infrastructure scene for a while, you probably remember the original NetPro Directory Experts Conference (DEC). DEC was THE conference to be at if you were an AD guy–or looking to improve your skills. Legends in the space...
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...
