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Securden's new Unified Privileged Access Management

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

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

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.
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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

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

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

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

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

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


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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Welf Alberts replied to the topic Smart card runas authentication in IT Administration Forum 2 weeks, 6 days 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 3 weeks, 5 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 2 hours, 25 minutes ago
Microsoft is changing how its Update Compliance service works with Window 10 or Windows 11 PCs, and gave notice that it will be requiring the use of the Azure Active Directory service before year's end, per a Tuesday announcement.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
Windows 11 is getting a way to view your Microsoft 365 subscription details within the Windows Settings app.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
It looks like Windows 10s native screenshot tool called Snip & Sketch is being hit by a pretty annoying problem, where the app simply fails to load for some users when they try to take screenshots.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
The newest release of Microsoft PowerToys also brings control to rounded corners in Windows 11 in the FancyZones PowerToy as well as a bunch of bug fixes for other toys and spelling corrections.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 1 day, 2 hours ago
Microsoft Defender for Business is now available as a standalone solution to help small and medium businesses boost security as they face growing threats.Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update 1 day, 2 hours ago
Microsoft will add a VPN service to its Edge browser in an upcoming update. The exact timing and some service details are still uncertain.
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Change remote IP address and DNS entry with a PowerShell script 1 hour, 12 minutes agoHi, Lee Roy (and Anthony). You could do something like $info = Invoke-Command -ComputerName Dc01,FS03 -ScriptBlock {Get-NetAdapter}. to store the info in the variable $info. However, for Get-Netadapte...Lee Roy Anthony commented on
Change remote IP address and DNS entry with a PowerShell script 1 hour, 29 minutes agoHi Emanuel! Invoke-Command is now my new best friend! In fact, I'll also be using it for a code to extract the value of InterfaceIndex (thru Get-Netadapter). But how do I get the value/s of the prope...Lee Roy Anthony commented on
Get-NetAdapter – Managing NICs with PowerShell 3 hours, 31 minutes agoIs there a way to get the value of InterfaceIndex and move it to a variable?Leos Marek liked the comment of Jillj on Connecting to a Hyper-V Server Core in a workgroup with Hyper-V Manager. (So far, Jillj has 2 likes for this comment) 1 day, 3 hours ago
Jillj commented on Connecting to a Hyper-V Server Core in a workgroup with Hyper-V Manager 1 day, 9 hours ago
Excellent, works like a charm. This is the clean way to connect to a Hyper-V servert without a domain environment in a workgroup network. The other articles in the net are misleading, confusing, or ju...Mehrdad commented on Configuring auto attendant directory search in Microsoft Teams 2 days, 11 hours ago
Just tested and it works now...needed to give it roughly 24 hours for the AD name to make its way to the voice prompt search index.mehrdad commented on Configuring auto attendant directory search in Microsoft Teams 4 days, 9 hours ago
Hi Jeff, thanks for the article. I am trying to add nicknames to the dial by name directory. For example, Leonardo goes by Lenny so when people call and say "Lenny", the system doesn't find him. I hav...Morty Douglass commented on Using the Zendesk API with Microsoft Power Automate 5 days ago
Hi Robert, I am trying to use power automate with Zendesk and Planner. We are trying to create a ticket in Zendesk when a Planner Task is added in Planner in our teams. I am trying to set the T...Michael Pietroforte edited the doc Install Hyper-V with PowerShell in the group
PowerShell 5 days, 1 hour ago- In this second post in my series about Hyper-V management with PowerShell I will explain how to create a Hyper-V virtual switch with PowerShell. In my previous post I explained how to install Hyper-V ...
Maximiliano Morsia commented on Share office printers with remote workers using Windows Internet Printing 5 days, 3 hours ago
Thanks, I will have a look at it and trying to deploy that via Intune.Kim Vogel commented on Minimum password length: Default domain policy versus Set-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy 5 days, 8 hours ago
Hi Wolfgang, I am struggling with this as we speak. Our DC's are Windows Server 2016 version 1607 build 14393.5066. So I am unable, through the Default Domain Policy, to set the minimum password lengt...









