by Rod Trent
May 16, 2012 in Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, Security, System Center Configuration Manager, Windows by Rod Trent
EMET 3.0 has just been released and includes a number of improvements, including ease of deployment using GPO and System Center Configuration Manager. The enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent [...]
May 10, 2012 in Active Directory by Daniel Belcher
Alright, so Active Directory Asset Management. What is it? Well a, not so, unique problem facing every enterprise large or small, is asset management. Now asset management is not a one dimensional issue, there [...]
May 8, 2012 in Active Directory, How-To by Jase T. Wolfe
I've always thought of the Active Directory (AD DS) as a box of Legos: give any two kids an identical set and they will come up with something completely different. Good from a design [...]
April 30, 2012 in Active Directory, Windows by Forefront Security
One of the recurrent question about ADFS 2.0 is how many Federation Server is needed in a cross domain or cross forest scenario. The Active Directory Identity Provider is able to authenticate through Trust [...]
April 26, 2012 in Active Directory, Windows by Forefront Security
In a previous post, we have seen how we can provide client certificate authentication. That was pretty simple, because we used an enterprise CA, an adfs server and a user account, all in the [...]
April 26, 2012 in Active Directory, SQL Server, Windows by Forefront Security
As you know, there are three “out of the box” Attribute Store in ADFS 2.0 : Active Directory SQL LDAP But there is a limitation with the LDAP Attribute Store. As this Technet Article [...]
April 26, 2012 in Active Directory, Windows by Forefront Security
When you work with Active Directory, did you never had to translate an objectSID from a string to hexadecimal format or vice versa ? Now, there is a tool to do that : SIDTranslator. [...]
April 20, 2012 in Active Directory, Group Policy by Danny Guillory Jr
WMI Filtering (Targeting Specific Operating Systems) So I have been using Group Policy for several years now and I figured I would start Blogging about things I think would be helpful to others. I [...]
February 22, 2012 in Active Directory, Permissions by Chris Nackers
Posted in Active DirectoryPermissionsMikael Nystrom created a nice post on what permissions are needed in Active Directory for OSD.
Read his post here.
February 16, 2012 in Group Policy, PowerShell, Security, Windows 7 by Matt Benninge
This part will describe how the XML created in Part 1 can be merged into an existing GPO. The manual process for doing this is described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee791754(v=ws.10).aspx Before launching the application you should [...]
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