by Jan De Clercq
By Jan De Clercq, 01/31/2012
With Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and later, you can store EFS private keys on users' smart cards and control these settings with Group Policy.
By Jan De Clercq, 01/30/2012
You can control specific network connections through the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Windows Firewall with Advanced Security snap-in.
By Jan De Clercq, 01/29/2012
You can remove the administrative shares on Windows servers and prevent them from being created automatically, although Microsoft doesn't recommend it.
By Jan De Clercq, 01/27/2012
These new Group Policy settings can help you audit, analyze, and restrict NTLM authentication use in your Windows environment.
By Jan De Clercq, 12/28/2011
Use the Eventcreate utility and other command-line resources to verify that Windows event forwarding and collection is configured correction.
By Jan De Clercq, 12/23/2011
Limit Windows event collection and forwarding processing impact by turning off pre-rendering of events on source computers and by setting the max number of events sent from a ...
By Jan De Clercq, 12/21/2011
Windows event forwarding and collection was introduced with the Windows Eventing 6.0 code in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, but other Windows OSs can serve as event ...
By Jan De Clercq, 11/30/2011
Security Compliance Manager 2 includes a tool called LocalGPO that helps you apply security baselines to a non-domain-joined computers.
By Jan De Clercq, 11/23/2011
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager should become every security administrator's preferred security management tool for Windows clients and servers, but there are other tools ...
By Jan De Clercq, 11/22/2011
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2 (SCM 2) is a free tool for creating and maintain security baselines for Windows OSs, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office programs in ...
By Jan De Clercq, 10/26/2011
The RID pool on each domain is assigned by the RID master, but you can adjust the default size of the RID pool and keep track of how many RIDs have been issued.
By Jan De Clercq, 10/21/2011
Use the Whoami command to get the security ID (SID) and Relative ID (RID) of the account used to log on to Windows.
Windows security-related processes use security IDs (SIDs) to uniquely identify security principals. The Relative ID (RID) uniquely identifies a security principal relative to the ...
By Jan De Clercq, 09/28/2011
Check out these resources for information about Certificate Services.
Windows Server 2008 R2 permits installation of a Windows Certification Authority (CA) on Server Core.
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