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Specops Password Auditor: Find weak Active Directory passwords

Learn how to use Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and Devolutions Server together for secure privileged access management.
Remote Desktop Manager with Devolutions Server: Managing secure privileged access

The Specops Password Policy solution helps to enforce good password use in your environment, including real-time checking for breached password checks. Let's take a look at a review of the newest features of the solution.
Specops Password Policy 7.5: Enforce good password use in Active Directory

Veeam Backup & Replication v11 has been released. The newest Veeam release contains significant new features, including continuous data protection (CDP) and ransomware protection. This post will cover a review of the new features in Veeam v11.
Veeam Backup & Replication v11 now includes continuous data protection and ransomware protection

Managing PowerShell across an organization can be difficult. ScriptRunner Portal Edition R1 is a PowerShell management platform with a new web portal for PowerShell script administration.
ScriptRunner Portal Edition: Manage PowerShell scripts throughout your organization

The next few months give you the unique chance to rework legacy processes and reimagine desktop management for remote works amid a pandemic. SmartDeploy can help you do that.
SmartDeploy: Rethinking software deployment to remote workers in times of a pandemic

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is a full-stack IT service management (ITSM) suite that provides the tools you would expect of an IT service desk, such as service requests, problem tracking, change requests, and asset management. However, it goes far beyond the basic capabilities by providing additional functionality, and features, including a knowledge base, configuration management database (CMDB), tracking purchases, contracts, preventive maintenance, reporting capabilities, and many other features.
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus: A comprehensive IT service management solution

Are you looking for a solution to centrally manage your passwords and connections to hosts in your network? In a review of Remote Desktop Manager by Devolutions, we look at the features, functionality, and impressions of this application to manage connections to your infrastructure.
Remote Desktop Manager: A powerful and full-featured connection manager

Learn how to manage on-premises and remote worker security patching, application, and device control, as well as vulnerability scanning with ManageEngine Endpoint Security Suite.
ManageEngine Endpoint Security Suite: Patch management, device control, and vulnerability scanning

Most businesses today use a telephone system for voice communication. Historically, phone systems have been complicated, challenging to configure, and not very scalable. However, the cloud revolution has redefined how businesses take advantage of business-critical services and the available options. The 3CX communications system is an open-platform phone system that runs on-premises with Windows or Linux and in the cloud as a hosted SaaS solution.
3CX communications system: Phone system for Windows, Linux, and the cloud

Privileged Access Management is increasingly important with the rise of account compromise and the resulting data breaches. Securden’s new Unified PAM solution offers an all-in-one solution for PAM in the enterprise.
Securden’s new Unified Privileged Access Management

3CX communications system: Phone system for Windows, Linux, and the cloud
Most businesses today use a telephone system for voice communication. Historically, phone systems have been complicated, challenging to configure, and not very scalable. However, the cloud revolution has redefined how businesses take advantage of business-critical services and the available options. The 3CX communications system is an open-platform phone system that runs on-premises with Windows or Linux and in the cloud as a hosted SaaS solution.
Remote Desktop Manager with Devolutions Server: Managing secure privileged access
Learn how to use Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and Devolutions Server together for secure privileged access management.
ScriptRunner Portal Edition: Manage PowerShell scripts throughout your organization
Managing PowerShell across an organization can be difficult. ScriptRunner Portal Edition R1 is a PowerShell management platform with a new web portal for PowerShell script administration.
Remote Desktop Manager: A powerful and full-featured connection manager
Are you looking for a solution to centrally manage your passwords and connections to hosts in your network? In a review of Remote Desktop Manager by Devolutions, we look at the features, functionality, and impressions of this application to manage connections to your infrastructure.
ManageEngine Endpoint Security Suite: Patch management, device control, and vulnerability scanning
Learn how to manage on-premises and remote worker security patching, application, and device control, as well as vulnerability scanning with ManageEngine Endpoint Security Suite.
Veeam Backup & Replication v11 now includes continuous data protection and ransomware protection
Veeam Backup & Replication v11 has been released. The newest Veeam release contains significant new features, including continuous data protection (CDP) and ransomware protection. This post will cover a review of the new features in Veeam v11.
Specops Password Policy 7.5: Enforce good password use in Active Directory
The Specops Password Policy solution helps to enforce good password use in your environment, including real-time checking for breached password checks. Let’s take a look at a review of the newest features of the solution.
Securden’s new Unified Privileged Access Management
Privileged Access Management is increasingly important with the rise of account compromise and the resulting data breaches. Securden’s new Unified PAM solution offers an all-in-one solution for PAM in the enterprise.
Specops Password Auditor: Find weak Active Directory passwords
Finding breached, reused, blank, and weak passwords in your environment is a great way to improve its security. Specops Software Password Auditor is a tool that provides visibility to these types of accounts. In this review of its latest features, we see how to use Specops Password Auditor to secure user accounts in Active Directory.
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus: A comprehensive IT service management solution
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is a full-stack IT service management (ITSM) suite that provides the tools you would expect of an IT service desk, such as service requests, problem tracking, change requests, and asset management. However, it goes far beyond the basic capabilities by providing additional functionality, and features, including a knowledge base, configuration management database (CMDB), tracking purchases, contracts, preventive maintenance, reporting capabilities, and many other features.
How to create a Hyper-V VM with PowerShell

In this new post of my Hyper-V management series, I will explain how create a Hyper-VM with PowerShell.
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Welf Alberts replied to the topic Smart card runas authentication in IT Administration Forum 1 month ago
Self-solved, and the solution is rather cute: the above script brings up a dialogue window in which you may enter the PIN using your keyboard. If you leave it blank and JUST PRESS ENTER, the PIN-Pad a...Welf Alberts started the topic Smart card runas authentication in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
Hi. Imagine you are using a SmartCard to logon to windows, a SmartCard with different Credentials on it. When you want to run something as different user, you press shift while right-clicking the exec...Welf Alberts replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
We use this since 2006 – never had a problem restoring such a backup no matter how it was created. For DR, he would not need to use sector based backups nor disable or even suspend Bitlocker ...Michael Pietroforte replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
Yes, of course you can unlock BitLocker and that is again a totally different matter. Still, the question remains if cloning an encrypted drive is a standard procedure. If only one bit is corrupted in...Welf Alberts replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
That said, it’s also possible from WinPE to mount a bitlocked drive using a bek file for example (manage-bde -unlock c: -rk e:some.bek) and do drive snapshot afterwards, if you prefer to get an ...Welf Alberts replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
Drive snapshot is a command line tool which (as x64 version) may run from any WinPE or Windows setup based WinPE. If it does not recognize the file system, it simply copies all sectors. That does not ...Michael Pietroforte replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
Well, a disk image can either be sector-based or file-based and the disk image can either be created from an external OS or from within the OS. What you call a drive snapshot is taken from within the ...Welf Alberts replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
Drive Snapshot – Disk Image Backup for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/X64 I understand what the question was, don’t worry. We are doing DR backups of bitlocked drives for as long as Vista is out....Michael Pietroforte replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
What you mean with “drive snapshot”? The question is whether sector-based imaging from an external OS is a standard procedure for BitLocker encrypted drives.Welf Alberts replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 1 month, 1 week ago
With drive snapshot, this is a standard procedure, supported and documented. Clonezilla of course doesn’t care at all for whatever encryption, it just clones, so all just works again on the new ...
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This years first major Windows 11 update, version 22H2 aka Sun Valley 2, is expected to bring some much-needed improvements to the operating system. Some references in early code have suggested that Windows 11 version 22H2 RTM is scheduled for sometime in May or June.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 10 hours, 8 minutes ago
With three zero-days and several serious vulnerabilities in key Windows server and authentication areas, it’s time to patch now.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 10 hours, 8 minutes ago
Windows admins have been expressing their dismay at Microsoft’s decision to move the Quick Assist remote assistance tool to the Microsoft Store.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 10 hours, 9 minutes ago
The problems introduced by Windows 11 KB5013943 (May 2022 Patch Tuesday) are pretty serious: its crashing computers with Blue Screen of Death if they rely on certain drivers required for apps like antivirus.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 1 day, 10 hours ago
Organizations should look at last months and this months bulletins and put their Hyper-V and Active Directory servers and infrastructure at the top of the priority list.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 1 day, 10 hours ago
Microsoft has added re-authentication support in Azure AD Conditional Access. The company says that its one of the top-requested features from customers, who will now be able to configure policies to require authentication by end-users. Microsoft defines sign-in frequency as the time period bef …
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- Thank you for writing this article. I wrote all my own Powershell code to install VMs, but on the free Hypervisor-only platform. IMO, it is pointless to host VMs on a GUI based server. The command...
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Try this: start $FileBrowser.filename- thanks for sharing! i am looking to make a script to do a hot clone(booteable) of disk….its posible to achive that on windows? Lets imagine: i have a 256 SSD disk with the default partitions tha...
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Hi, I installed Windows Server 2016 on my computer, and when I installed it, it asked me which Windows to select. I also selected Windows Server Dasta Center, and after installing Windows on my comput...Amar Honnungar commented on Remove provisioned (built-in) apps in Windows 10 4 days, 19 hours ago
1. Navigate to C:windowssystem32 and search for the Sysprep folder, go to properties and change the ownership of the folder to the local admin by changing the permissions in the Advance menu. 2. Aft...Jafar commented on
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