NOTE: If you’re not yet using Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, please follow this article instead. The recent OS X High Sierra iamroot vulnerability reminded me just how many people don’t secure their remote desktop connections. While Windows Remote Desktop…
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SSH Tunneling for Windows People: Protecting Remote Desktop
NOTE: If you’re using Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, please follow this article instead. The recent OS X High Sierra iamroot vulnerability reminded me just how many people don’t secure their remote desktop connections. While Windows Remote Desktop is more…
SQL Server / Windows OS losing connection to Domain Controllers
SSPI handshake failed with error code 0x80090311, state 14 while establishing a connection with integrated security; the connection has been closed. Reason: AcceptSecurityContext failed. The Windows error code indicates the cause of failure. No authority could be contacted for authentication.…
Active Directory and PHP on Apache on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Recently, I wrote about Joining Ubuntu to an Active Directory Domain. That was for an actual Ubuntu box and the plan was that the next post would be about adding Apache to the mix. But then I got distracted by…
My Very First Scripting Guys Article: Creating Pop-ups by Using PowerShell
So this happened about a month ago, but I’ve been out with the flu. Ed Wilson with Microsoft Scripting Guys invited me to write a few articles on WPF, and I excitedly said yes! In the first article of the…
Making Bootable USB sticks on Windows
Just because I always forget.. All of my workstations are Macs, which I then use to connect to my vSphere and Hyper-V labs. This can make it a challenge to create bootable Windows-based USB sticks for my servers. I used…
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Securely Administer Your Remote Windows Network using RDP over SSL
Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post about setting up RD Gateway in Windows 2012 using an AD domain certificate. This post is directed to Windows 2012 R2. There isn’t much difference, but in this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how…
Setup an SSTP SSL VPN in Windows Server 2012 R2
So here’s what’s awesome about Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol SSL VPNs: they give your connecting client an IP and make it a full-on part of the network. And this is all done over port 443, a commonly used port which…
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