Upgrade Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers and AD Schema to Windows Server 2019 | Raise Active Directory domain and forest functional levels
To update a domain controller, best practice is to install a server with the newer version of Windows Server and…
Adjust a Date from Past or Future on Windows Server permanently
In case you need to adjust on your Windows Server a date different from the actual date and time, for…
Active Directory Certificate Mapping – Implicit vs. Explicit
In Active Directory you can use certificate mapping to bind an identity to a X.509 certificate, which then can be…
Set up a Key Recovery Server for the Microsoft certification authority (CA)
In this post I want tho show how to setup a key recovery server for your internal Windows CA (AD…
Nikto Web Server Scanner
In this post I want to show how to install and using the nikto command-line vulnerability scanner. Introduction Nikto is…
Change Owner for Azure AD joined Windows 10 Devices
Under Azure Active Directory – Devices – All devices you will get a list of all devices which are Azure…
Set up Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Azure AD joined Devices
In one of my last posts you will see how to disable the mandatory Windows Hello for Business Prompt (provisioning)…
Disable Mandatory Windows Hello for Business Prompt on Azure AD joined Devices
If you join your device to Azure AD by using the Access work or school settings, the device by default…
Microsoft SQL Server – FCB::Open failed: Could not open file mastlog.ldf for file number 2. OS error: 5(Access is denied.)
In case you couldn’t start your SQL Server Instance and getting the following error message in your windows application logs,…
PetitPotam NTLM Relay Attack – Mitigating NTLM Relay Attacks on Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
On actual occasion, I want to share some information about the newly uncovered security flaw in Windows operating systems named…