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It’s read-only Friday so I decided to perform a offline audit of our Active Directory passwords. I found this great tool: https://gitlab.com/chelmzy/five-minute-password-audit which in turn is a fork of this tool: https://github.com/DGG-IT/Match-ADHashes What I’m going to write here is mostly a repeat of these two Gitrepos with a few tweaks and corrections. To perform this … Read more
We recently needed a way to see what delegate permissions a client had given across the vastness that is their mailbox and it’s folder structure. Digging around online I found this script from John Hopkins which got me 90% of the way there. Their script was missing three things for my use case: Delegate permissions … Read more
My backup server has a ASRock H370M-ITX/AC motherboard in it and at the time of these benchmarks 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf SATA disks. I run Veeam and used the SATA disks as my backup repository. My original configuration was 2x6TB Ironwolfs in a RAID0 (using Microsoft Storage Spaces) with Bitlocker enabled. This worked perfectly fine and … Read more
Checking over our DHCP server we were seeing quite a few of these errors appearing in the ‘Microsoft-Windows-DHCP Server Events/Admin’ event log: Log Name: DhcpAdminEvents Source: Microsoft-Windows-DHCP-Server Date: 1/28/2019 10:23:49 PM Event ID: 20292 Task Category: DHCP Failover Level: Error Keywords: User: NETWORK SERVICE Computer: dc2.mydomain.com Description: A BINDING-ACK message with transaction id: 943568 was … Read more
I’m not overly knowledgeable about advanced networking but I figured I’d share this since I couldn’t find anything online about it at the time. We run a Microsoft Remote Access Server (RAS) for our VPN server. We provide L2TP primarily for users. Due to a limitation in the Windows VPN client our RAS server has … Read more