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Preventing Petya ransomware with Group Policy

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Geoff / 0 Comment

This post and this twitter thread describe a mechanism to prevent the latest ransomware cyber attack from running. It involves creating 1 (or 3) files with a s...

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Remote Desktop Gateway Service – register NPS

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I struggled with getting a new Server 2016 Remote Desktop Gateway Service running. I followed the official documentation from Microsoft, configuring two servers...

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Robocopy file classes

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Geoff / 1 Comment

This information comes from the Robocopy.exe documentation PDF file for Windows XP version, but it’s the best description I’ve been able to find. Fr...

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Readable System Event logs

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I think I’m not alone in finding the Service Control Manager logs so many informational events as to make it hard to read the important events in the Syst...

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TechEd 2014: Deploying MBAM 2.5

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

For my reference, a video of a session I missed at TechEd. Also available via Microsoft Channel 9 ( downloads available ).

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Get-PrintJobs.ps1 PowerShell script

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

After a recent upgrade of our print servers, I discovered that the Print Spooler service event logging had been enhanced, and changed enough that some PowerShe...

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Set default printer with PowerShell

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...

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Add network printer with PowerShell

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Geoff / 2 Comments

This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...

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Updating firewall rules with netsh

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I needed to adjust the scope of a built-in firewall rule in a couple of servers, restricting the remote IPs to a list of UVM subnets in CIDR notation. The netsh...

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Who’s logged into Server 2012?

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I’m severely disappointed that Microsoft has removed from Server 2012 the tools required for managing and configuring Remote Desktop for Administration. O...

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