If you have been around IT for some time, you may be familiar with SysInternals. Mark Russinovich is practically a legend in the world of Microsoft based networks. His tool Sigcheck is quite useful for many tasks that would take a bit of time which you probably don’t have. You can use this simple but …
Sorry I have been gone for awhile, the blog was down for maintenance while we focused on projects. I will be adding content soon, in the meantime if you are following this blog for CyberSecurity posts along, you should read the following post from Brian Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/solarwinds-hack-could-affect-18k-customers/ You should probably check your list of IP …
Not sure why this is not a simple option in the GUI, but I ran across a way to export the information via powershell, thanks to VirtuallySober.com Great Blog with VMWARE and Zerto information! Getting a List of VMs by VPG
Exchange Online PowerShell allows you to manage your Exchange Online settings from the command line. You use Windows PowerShell on your local computer to create a remote PowerShell session to Exchange Online. It’s a simple three-step process where you enter your Office 365 credentials, provide the required connection settings, and then import the Exchange Online …
If you read my Yelp review on Takaya Yakitori in Costa Mesa CA you know we frequent this place. I especially love the atmosphere, the food and the service. Tonight I had a great experience, a lovely couple gave us the privilege of sharing a table. This was after a long day. A very …
In my consulting projects and by peer I am often asked for a list of executable file types. At times this is used to create a file screen to prevent potentially dangerous file types from being uploaded to a service or web site. At other times it is used to filter mail …
I ran across an issue where a user could not save an excel document that contained VBA projects and links to other data sources. The error message below was presented when the user tries to save the document: “Errors were detected while saving (filename). Microsoft excel may be able to save the file by …
I had an issue that had me perplexed recently. Citrix Sharefile with a premise based Storage Zone, intermittently unable to upload files from inside and outside the company, several calls to Citrix and the networking teams resulted in no fix. Solution? Using the IISCrypto tool apply best practices and reboot the storage zone controllers. …
I assume if you are reading this you are tired of seeing Internet Explorer eat up CPU cycles on your Citrix farm, hurting other users experience. I usually prefer to keep the browser out of the Citrix Session for security reasons, however in some cases this is not possible. First thing I would recommend is …
If you support a Microsoft Windows Server environment and are looking for some simple strategies to protect against Ransomware, you should consider the following: DNS filtering services such as Zscaler and ThreatSTOP. Removing Local Admin rights from your users. Implementing File Server Resource Manager on your file servers and creating a file screen to …