I came across a scenario today when I was helping during a migration project. We wanted to map a drive based on a value in extensionattribute on the user. First, we thought that we would solve it with a script, but then it hit me like a lightning bolt that it is possible to use […]
Microsoft has announced (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/03/22/new-feature-in-office-2016-can-block-macros-and-help-prevent-infection/) that there is a new group policy setting in macro security that blocks macros from files that arrives from Internet. If there is one setting you should implement in your organization, it is this one. This setting will make attacks through attachments in emails much harder. Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat […]
I just created a video about AppLocker and how it can make companies more secure. The video is in Norwegian (Sorry to our english readers). My goal with the video is to get companies to focus more on client security. Two days ago we could read about a hospital in Hollywood that was taken offline […]
Remember those pesky error codes you had to google the hell out of when trying to troubleshoot Software Updates on clients in ConfigMgr 2007? If your answer is flashing white rage or similar, then you will like this new simple reporting feature in ConfigMgr 2012. The most common error I witnessed when working with Software […]
This is primary notes for my self, because for some reason I always spend much time dealing with this during installation of Remote Desktop Servers. First of all there is a part of Windows that is called ActiveX Installer Service that needs to be configured. This is default enabled in Windows 7. In Vista you […]
If you want to change IE Search Provider list, this is a nice way to do it. Set the policy “Restrict search providers to a specific list of providers. As you can see, this is empty; therefore we need to do some more work. Create an .adm file (example below) Import this in […]
I had to upgrade client software for a customer, and this included some new system variables path on client computers. In the past this was done with setX, and we want start using group policy preferences. This seemed to work fine. But after some more testing I stumbled over some problems. System variables path […]
As you all know by now there are several areas you can elevate pictures from Active Directory. What I mean is that you can add a picture to the thumbnailphoto attribute in Active Directory and it will be displayed in Outlook (not only Outlook 2010: http://www.stevieg.org/tag/thumbnailphoto/ ) and Lync. You could also achieve this on […]
You often want to redirect start menu and Desktop folders to another location when you configure a terminal server farm. I often redirect this to C:custom. This is because I do not want to rely on another server in the network to display the start menu and desktop to the users. The only downside is […]
Very often you spend a lot of time searching for the right Group policy setting. You can use the filter function in GPMC or you can download the excel sheet from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb&displaylang=en But this often ends up with you not finding the setting right away. And it also takes a lot of time downloading […]