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There is an easy way to gain access to your administrative rights (read: admin token) with a keyboard shortcut . To provoke the UAC Consent or Credential Prompt - to elevate your selected application - press Ctrl+Shift+Enter . This avoids the typical...
Service Pack 1 of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 adds support for running the systems management product on Windows Server 2008. This update from Microsoft adds the required information for SCCM 2007 in the Security Configuration Wizard so that...
Good news! The Microsoft Account Lockout Tools still work as expected on a Windows Vista SP1 with RSAT. What do you need? Just the same 2 files as before! After you've downloaded ALTools.exe from the Microsoft Download Center , double...
The first time you connect to a network, you must choose a network location. This automatically sets the appropriate firewall settings for the type of network that you connect to. If you connect to networks in different locations (home network, public...
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a new form of (SSL-based) VPN tunnel with features that allow traffic to pass through firewalls that block PPTP and L2TP/IPsec traffic. SSTP provides a mechanism to encapsulate PPP traffic over the SSL channel...
Fine-grained password policies - described in a previous post - is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that can be used to specify multiple password policies and apply different password restrictions and account lockout policies to different sets of...
In my previous post " Signup for the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide BETA ", I mentioned how to subscribe. Meanwhile an alpha version of the Windows Server 2008 Security has appeared (about 250 pages). This guide provides instructions and...
The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide will provide guidance, recommendations, and automation tools for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system to help IT Professionals create and maintain a secure environment for a variety of servers running...
In Windows Server 2008, you can now set up AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) auditing with a new audit policy subcategory ( Directory Service Changes ) to log old and new values when changes are made to AD DS objects and their attributes. However...
[This information is based on the Windows Server 2008 June CTP and is subject to change...] Windows Server 2008 provides a way to define different password and account lockout policies for different sets of users in a Windows Server 2008 domain. In Microsoft...