
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.
Specops Password Auditor: Find weak Active Directory passwords

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

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

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

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

Issuing a security and compliance auditing policy across on-premises and multi- and hybrid cloud environments can be a challenge. Learn how Runecast 6.1 helps businesses solve these difficult security and compliance challenges.
Runecast 6.1: Issue policy for IT security and compliance auditing

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

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

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

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

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


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.

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.

SmartDeploy: Rethinking software deployment to remote workers in times of a pandemic
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.

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.

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.

Runecast 6.1: Issue policy for IT security and compliance auditing
Issuing a security and compliance auditing policy across on-premises and multi- and hybrid cloud environments can be a challenge. Learn how Runecast 6.1 helps businesses solve these difficult security and compliance challenges.

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

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.

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.
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Welf Alberts replied to the topic Smart card runas authentication in IT Administration Forum 2 weeks 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 2 weeks, 6 days 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 3 weeks 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 - that wa...Michael Pietroforte replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 unencr...Welf Alberts replied to the topic Backing up Bitlocker laptop in IT Administration Forum 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 drive....
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Microsoft on Monday announced some Azure Active Directory enhancements to help organizations shift away from using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 20 hours, 18 minutes ago
Microsoft has announced four new partner integrations for Teams, all focused on providing remote, professional grade content production capability directly within the online collaboration software.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 20 hours, 18 minutes ago
Microsoft 365 web users will soon get work and personal account switching within April to June, according to Microsoft.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
It appears that Microsoft is fielding interest in flighting Windows Server VNext Insider preview builds apart from just offering ISOs. However, WSUS does not currently support this method.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 1 day, 7 hours ago
Microsoft has discovered several vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as Nimbuspwn, that could be chained together, allowing an attacker to elevate privileges to root on many Linux desktop endpoints. Leveraging Nimbuspwn as a vector for root access could allow attackers to achieve greater impact on vulnerable devices by deploying payloads and performing other malicious actions via arbitrary root code execution.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 1 day, 7 hours ago
As April comes to a close, you'll find new summarized totals in the cost analysis preview, the ability to download Azure prices as a ZIP file, six new and updated previews, a whopping 17 new ways to save, and a few new videos and doc updates.
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- Ignore my comment above - I've done another export/import using the PMC gui this time and it looks to have imported the default printer settings over. Not sure why it didn't work using the printbrm co...
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