Author: Phil
Disable TLS 1.0 using Group policy
TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 has been labelled as insecure for a few years now, unfortunately in most environments it’s still not disabled. Now days there are very few services that require it as 1.2 has long been…
Read More »Setting up WinRM to listen interfaces over HTTPS
This post will not answer the question of if you need to use https for WinRM in your environment. For the answer to that question you can find the a detailed breakdown in this blog post – Link…
Read More »Auditing for Java on Windows Servers
In the first half of 2019 Oracle decided to change their licencing model for Oracle Java SE. FAQs This was a shock for large and small companies alike. They have been using Java on workstations and servers for…
Read More »Create a replica of your Prod AD structure in the Lab
I recently had a request to create a replica of the company AD structure in a lab environment for testing with a new software product. The task involves the exporting and importing of the OUs and groups used…
Read More »Removing Bitnami Logo
As a short add-on to my WordPress on AWS article – Link This article will cover removing the Bitnami logo from your site. For those of you that have used the above article to host a WordPress site…
Read More »AWS Bitnami WordPress AMI Administration for Windows
I have recently been looking in to some of the AWS free tier products. For those of you that don’t know AWS providers a number of their products free for 1 – 12 months from the date the…
Read More »Using WMI Filters in Group Policy
When setting up WMI filters in Group policy it’s important to be able to test them correctly before applying them to the policy. There are a few ways of doing this with CMD, a powershell console or wbemtest…
Read More »Signature Algorithm error in Firefox with a Windows Server deployed Certificate
Recently after deploying a new PKI environment I found that some clients using certificates for https protocol transport layer encryption on their internally hosted sites were receiving Error code: SEC_ERROR_CERT_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM_DISABLED in firefox. Important note: Because Firefox only support…
Read More »Starting with Django
Over the last year the team has been working on making custom web portal solutions to solve a variety of automation challenges. The cornerstone of these web applications is Django. We’ve been able to use Django to provide…
Read More »Automating RDS Reports for Windows 2016 and 2019
Any windows server administrator running a Remote Desktop Services Server or farm in their environment at some point has wonder if there is an easy way to create RDS usage reports. The standard manual way of creating this…
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