Oddvar works as a Chief Technical Architect at Advania. He is also an active speaker and loves Microsoft Technology. Been an IT-Pro for more than 14 years and earned his first Microsoft certification at the age of 16. Oddvar is also GIAC GPEN certified in addition to his Microsoft certifications and is a very talented penetration tester.
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Sem is working as an Senior Consultant. He loves deployment and works a lot with Cloud and Datacenter Management . He is a Technology entusiast and has a great sense of humour. Sem is 2 x MCTS certified. His current employer is ISERV.
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Frode works as a senior consultant. His focus areas are deployment and application management, including asset management and metering. Configuration Manager is a favourite. He also works with other Microsoft technologies and especially the System Center family. He is also VMware certified. Frodes current employer is Atea.
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Christian works as a Technical Architect at Advania. He is also an active speaker and loves Microsoft Technology and has numerous Microsoft certifications. He has more than 14 years of experience as an IT-PRO and his primary competency is troubleshooting complex issues across platforms. Primarily working with Microsoft technologies. His specialties is Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Azure, Office365 and PKI.
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I often end up in discussions where I point out that UAC bypass is a common thing and that UAC is not a very good security boundary if it is left default. Truth be told that if you change the default UAC setting from «Notify me only when apps try to make changes to my […]
After watching «The Advanced Persistent Pentester (All Your Networks Are Belong 2 Us)» (http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon6/416-the-advanced-persistent-pentester-all-your-networks-are-belong-2-us-beau-bullock-derek-banks-joff-thyer)and especially the release of mailsniper I was inspired to write about another method that I use to get access to all data from within mailboxes and Sharepoint sites during pentests. This is often an overlooked feature by pentesters and it is […]
A quickpost on how to change the language in Office 365 for synced users. To change the language you need to edit the attribute PreferredLanguage on the on-premise user object and force a sync.
So after several Exchange migration projects I have seen this a couple of times. The names of the system folders in a mailbox (such as Inbox, Sent Items, and Draft etc) are in the wrong language or corrupt. Since I Live in Norway I’ve got costumers that want them in Norwegian. like “Innboks” and not […]
With the release of Microsoft ATA 1.7 today I was pretty excited. I got a hint that a feature request I made was implemented into the product. Prior to ATA 1.7 when configuring there was no good method of verifying mail and syslog alerting. To test and verify the alert configuration, I had to trigger […]
This is probably something that many already knows and there are probably other and better blogposts about this, but I thought that it is important to refresh old knowledge. In Skype it is possible to send links in an IM chat and that’s great. A problem with that is that it can be used for […]
Got a friend that received the following mail 8 or 9 times in his inbox and he wondered if I would take a look at it. How can I say no? The mail looked like this: It has been some time since I last reversed something so I taught it would be fun just to […]
When I work remote against my customers I have one virtual machine per customer. This has many advantages for me. One advantage is that I do not have to install all the different VPN clients and stuff. Another advantage is that I isolate my connection to the customer from the virtual machine and not bridging […]
A quick post about a little detail I noticed here the other day. I don’t know if you have noticed it, but there is a little difference on the file system in the RTM version of Windows 10 and the 1511 version. If you download both ISOs from Microsoft (RTM and 1511) and mount them […]
What a week, last week. Last week I experienced one of the strangest problems I have ever encountered and I ended up using Microsoft Premier Support. I have worked day and night for the past week so forgive me if I forget to mention something I tried during that week. Let me take you through […]