PolicyStore in NetIPsec Cmdlets: Local vs Domain Policies
A financial services client called us on a Friday afternoon because half their branch office servers had stopped accepting inbound connections after a Group Policy upd…
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Configuring AD Audit Policies with PowerShell and GPO
Last year, a mid-size logistics company we manage came to us after discovering that a domain admin account had been compromised for over three weeks. The attacker used…
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Backing Up and Restoring Group Policy Objects with PowerShell
After inheriting a manufacturing client’s Active Directory environment from another vendor last year, the first thing we discovered was that their Group Policy Objects…
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Windows Server Hardening: Stop Guessing, Start Baselining
We inherited an environment last year where the client had been running Windows Server 2019 domain controllers with NTLMv1 still enabled, SMBv1 wide open, and zero Gro…
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