Background Flash back to the late 80's...mullets for all, Polo drenched teens, big hair, and RC4 in all it's glory. Life was good. Flash forward to now and all of these things are out of style. In the case of ... continue reading

I've been doing system administration since roughly 1994 and in that time I've come to realize one thing: making changes to established environments always causes a ripple effect. The impact of changes usually doesn't surface right away, so associating the ... continue reading

Hello Everyone, my name is Zoheb Shaikh and I’m a Solution Engineer working with Microsoft Mission Critical team (SMC). I’ll share with you something interesting that I came across recently where one of our Enterprise customers had multiple clients where ... continue reading

Hello! With the dust settling from Ignite 2019, let’s dive in with “how stuff works” – focusing on the Microsoft Authenticator’s backup and restore feature. Earlier this year we released the Microsoft Authenticator backup and restore feature on iOS and ... continue reading

This blog post was contributed to by Chin Lai The, Technical Specialist, SAP on Azure. This is the first in a four-part blog series on designing a great SAP on Azure Architecture, and will focus on designing for security. Great ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Jan 29, 2019 Introduction Hello, my name is Richard McIver and I'm a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft specializing in System Center Configuration Manager.I was recently working with a customer who suddenly started receiving a ... continue reading

Today I want to share with you a direct experience from the field. One customer received from the security team the request to disable the RC4 ETYPE (Encryption Type) for Kerberos for the windows 10 Clients, so the support team ... continue reading

IIS, the web server that’s available as a role in Windows Server, is also one of the most used web server platforms on the internet. Hardening IIS involves applying a certain configuration steps above and beyond the default settings. The ... continue reading

Introduction Hello, my name is Richard McIver and I’m a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft specializing in System Center Configuration Manager. I was recently working with a customer who suddenly started receiving a strange KDC error when attempting to run ... continue reading

Hello everyone, I’m Preston K. Parsard, specializing in Platforms, Azure Infrastructure and Automation topics, and I’d like to share some insights for securing PowerShell credentials using certificates. This post is based on a recent customer project, but we’ll also wrap ... continue reading