An SSL certificate of a website allows to protect user data transferred over the network against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and provide data integrity. In this article we’ll describe the installation and binding of a free SSL certificate by Let’s Encrypt to an IIS site running on Windows Server 2012 R2.
- Windows 10Windows 7
How to Disable “Open File Security Warnings” in Windows 10, 8 and 7
April 18, 2018When you trying to run an exe, msi, bat, cmd and other executable types of files from a local drive or network folder in Windows, you can see this warning:…
Outlook 2016 does not support manual setup for Exchange accounts. Starting with this version, Microsoft developers completely removed the ability to manually configure the Exchange account settings and the Exchange…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
Cannot Access SMB Network Shares after Windows 10 1709 Upgrade
April 12, 2018Hi, admin! After installing Fall Creators Update (1709) on Windows 10 computer, I cannot access the shared network folders from my computer. Interestingly, only some network folders on NAS devices…
Own KMS server allows you to significantly simplify the process of activating Microsoft products on the corporate network and in contrast to a usual activation process doesn’t require granting each…
- Windows 10Windows 7Windows Server 2012 R2
How to Clear Pagefile.sys at Shutdown in Windows 10 / 8 / 7
April 10, 2018Going back to the security of data stored in RAM, I faced the need to configure an automatic clearing of the swap file (pagefile) in Windows. When you turn off…
The task of finding a user or group name in Active Directory using wildcard, regular expression or pattern is not as evident as it seems. The matter is that by…
Today we’ll discuss three simple ways to access the data stored on VMFS datastore of the ESXi host (these are configuration files, data files and snapshots of virtual machines) from…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
SMB 1.0 Support in Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows Server 2016
April 2, 2018A new version of SMB 3 protocol was introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2 (technically, it is SMB 3.02, since SMB 3.0 appeared in Windows Server 2012). Now you can disabled…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesSecurity
Securing Administrative (Priveleged) Accounts in Active Directory
March 27, 2018In this article, I have tried to collect all major organizational and technical rules of using privileged / administrative accounts in the organization to improve security in the Windows network.…