by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 4, 2015 | Security-related
Just a quick follow up to my previous post on Group Policy Preference password remediation–our very own Kevin Sullivan posted a great video walkthrough of the problem and our tool for remediating these passwords. Enjoy! Darren
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 25, 2015 | Security-related
A little over two weeks ago, the United State Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a bulletin calling for admins to take action on an old issue that I’ve covered extensively in the past. The issue relates to the fact that there are several areas...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 20, 2015 | Security-related
I had a good email conversation last week with someone on the PowerShell team at Microsoft, in the wake of the release of our Desired State Configuration CSE. The gist of his question was around how users could protect the configuration information held within the DSC...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 13, 2015 | Security-related
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a couple of patches that addressed vulnerabilities in our good friend Group Policy. First, I will say that it’s relatively rare to see such vulnerabilities directly effect Group Policy function, like this one does....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 1, 2010 | Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Recently someone asked if it was possible to disable the print screen functionality on their keyboard through Group Policy. My initial response was that I had never seen a policy setting to do this, and indeed I figured that you would need to do some low level...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 23, 2010 | General Stuff, Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Microsoft recently announced a new security vulnerability in Windows shortcuts that affects all versions of Windows since XP! Its references here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2286198. This particular vulnerability takes advantage of the icon that appears in...
