Category: Security

Top 10 actions to secure your environment

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 10/04/2019 0 Comments on Top 10 actions to secure your environment
Posted in Azure, Security

Hi, Microsoft has a blog series about securing our environment. The first one came in December 2018. For now there is 8 parts released, hopefully part 9 is coming soon. When almost all functions are out in the open these…

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How to change Network Location Profile manually.

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 27/08/2015 0 Comments on How to change Network Location Profile manually.
Posted in 2012 R2, Direct Access, Powershell, Security

This was tricky. I had implemented several Direct Access configurations, but none of them went crazy like the newest one. Network Location Awereness (NLA) kept changing the localtion of DMZ network adapter to Domain Profile. That is not good for…

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How to Find your missing dirsync server.

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 06/07/2015 0 Comments on How to Find your missing dirsync server.
Posted in Office 365, Powershell, Security

Hi, Okay, it isn’t so easy, but the following help you to the right track. If you don’t have a separate service-account for Local AD connection, then you can use this: dsquery user -name MSOL_AD_sync If you have a service-account,…

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Reset password of Local Admin account from Windows XP to Windows 10.

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/06/2015 0 Comments on Reset password of Local Admin account from Windows XP to Windows 10.
Posted in Powershell, Security, Windows Updates

Hi all, Today I got a request to reset Local Admin password from Windows XP and Windows 7 machines. After Microsoft released this update https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2962486?wa=wsignin1.0 Group Policy Preferences stopped working as a way to reset Local passwords. So below is a script…

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Poodle and how to fix it.

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 12/12/2014 0 Comments on Poodle and how to fix it.
Posted in Security

Hi all, Poodle is the word of the day. No it’s not a Dog. What is does (Windows): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/3009008.aspx How to find affected websites: https://www.poodlescan.com/   How to fix it (Generic windows Instructions): http://masteringlync.com/2014/10/20/poodle-and-lync-server-2013/  Be warned,  

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