All Tags » Windows Security » Running Windows (RSS)

Browse Blog Posts by Tags

Showing related tags and posts for the Blogs application. See all tags in the site

  • Remotely listing all installed updates

    A couple of weeks ago I published a script to list installed updates . Predictably, one of the comments ask for a version that can do that remotely. Here it is. This version can be run a couple of ways. First, you can double-click it. If you do it will prompt you for which computer to list the updates...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Thu, Jan 10 2008
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Group Policy Fails For One User

    Recently I started noticing a very strange problem. user Group Policy was not applying for a single user. All other users got GPO just fine, but for one user GPO failed to apply. This manifested itself in a couple of interesting ways: When you run gpresult under this user's account you get an error that...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Sat, Nov 25 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • New Article: SBS At Home

    I've had this love-hate relationship with Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) for years. On the one hand, I agree to a large extent with Tom Shinder and Tim Mullen that SBS makes security compromises that in many, if not most, businesses are imprudent. It combines all services onto a single system...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Thu, Sep 28 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Wiping a drive, the easy way

    While poking around for a blog post on Susan's blog, I found this one , asking how to wipe a drive. Teacher, Teacher, I know the answer, I know: cipher /w:<drive letter> This command, built into Windows XP and higher, does a three-write pass over a drive to wipe all free space. You will, of...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Fri, Aug 25 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: , ,

  • SMB Message Signing Troubles?

    Susan posted this a few days ago , and I just thought it made sense to give it some more attention. SMB Message Signing is one of, if not the most, problematic security setting in Windows. It is commonly used to defeat man-in-the-middle attacks, but getting the settings to match on clients and servers...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Thu, Aug 24 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,
Page 1 of 1 (5 items)