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 right-click “Run as Administrator” action. There...
I don't know if any of you have already met the Definition Extraction feature in MOSS 2007? This feature, described in this blogpost by my collegue Joris Poelmans, has some disadvantages.... concerning security... As we all know (or should know), the MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search is security trimmed...
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 you can correctly lock down site systems. "The...
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-click on the file to extract the tools to a directory...
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 hotspots, at work), choosing a network location can...
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 of the HTTPS protocol. The use of PPP allows support...
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 users within a single domain. Password policies apply...
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 recommendations to help strengthen the security of...
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 Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 is engineered...
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 Directory Services depends on several controls...