I must say that NIC 2017 was an awesome event and I meet a lot of great people. Thanks to all the people working for NIC that made this such a great event. During my presentation, I did not get enough time to show all the things I wanted to (damn you demo gods), and […]
This might come as a shocker to you (irony), but cyber-criminals use e-mail to attack your users. I feel that client security is something that is often overlooked and IT-pros tend to focus on securing the servers rather than focusing on what is possible to do from the clients within the company network. If you […]
Just a quick and friendly tip. Often when I re-install my computer and I want to enable BitLocker, I want to save the recovery key temporarily to my C: drive. If you try to save to the desktop for example, Windows will complain and give you the following error message: This location can’t be used. […]
Hi folks. Got the following error when trying to run Sysprep in a Windows 10 installation. Sysprep was not able to validate Your Windows installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log for details. After resolving the issue, use Sysprep to validate your installation again. Investigating the log file mentioned shows the following. SYSPRP Failed to […]
It turns out that Mark Russinovich has made tool that compresses the NTUSER.dat slightly. The tool is called Registry Usage and can be found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dn194428.aspx . I picked up this trick from watching Ignite videos. I only have small profiles to test on, but this could be worth to test if you are working […]
Been a while since I have posted anything related to deployment, but I have thought a long time about this post. The reason why I have hesitated blogging about this is the legal issues about it. I have finally concluded that this is okay to publish, since the information is already available on the Internet […]
It has been a while since I wrote a good blog post. So the time has come for me to write a little about Windows security from a Penetration tester perspective. Hope you like it. There is probably a tons of guides and blog posts on how to hardening your Windows clients. In this post […]
In Windows Server 2012 all the administration and management has been moved up to the Server Manager. This means that you can configure your RDS environment from one place. This includes all certificate requirements when enabling SSO, installing RemoteApp Web Server or installing RD Gateway server. However, when you have more than one RD Host […]
I experienced a very strange issue on a Windows 2008 SP1 R2 Terminal Server. When a user attached an attachment from a network share in Outlook 2010, a dialog box came up stating the attachment was downloading. Outlook was slow, and both Outlook and Explorer.exe was getting “application errors”. The server was slower and slower, […]
Microsoft has just launched a beta program at connect for Windows Thin Pc. Its intention is to be able to install a light weight operating system to old machines and elevate VDI and terminal services. I just had to install it and test it out. And guess what, it looks great. See screen shoots below. […]