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http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2013/01/windows-server-2012-vm-generation-id-support-in-vsphere.html   Update: Also read this –> http://blog.joeware.net/2013/02/20/2675/ Rating 4.00 out of 5

http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/rdp-sec-check   Story There was an issue where I needed to be able to ascertain whether or not a terminal server was listening for RDP and actually functioning properly. The main advice out there was to use portqry which simply told you whether or not the TCP port was listening or Telnet which wasn’t very […]

I was pinged today by a coworker who was trying to track down password change audit entries that looked something like: Event Type:        Success Audit Event Source:    Security Event Category:                Account Management Event ID:              628 Date:                     1/14/2013 Time:                     2:52:32 PM User:                     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer:         DCNAME Description: User Account password set:                Target Account Name:   USERID […]

So I previously http://blog.joeware.net/2012/12/13/2650/ pointed out an article talking about AD Support in Samba 4.0. Upon further reading around on the Samba Wiki, white papers, and release notes etc, the article appears to be a little over generous on the functionality. One thing specifically that I was shocked to read is this In addition, the […]

I had no idea they were still working on this… Could be interesting. Test well before putting these into production…. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/11/samba4_active_directory_support/ Rating 4.50 out of 5

So I am starting to poke around and sort out how I want to rebuild my test lab setup as I have been ramping back up on using it and finding it is a little anemic occasionally. Currently I am running off of SuperFastVirtualMofo which is an Intel Quad box I built back in the […]

I have been asked a few times recently for MD-5 and/or SHA-1 digests for the various utilities. I put some perl code together last night to generate that information and I have added it to the versions.txt file that is on the website. I will likely slowly add it to the actual individual tool pages […]

If you didn’t have the ability or time to use the QR Code I posted yesterday, it was a QR Code to take you to the new dsWiki WIKI site I set up that was previously discussed here. Please check it out, it is a work in progress and I am looking for feedback. I […]

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