Category: Tools
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How I remotely access and manage my servers even when they are powered off!
In this video I talk about how I remotely access the servers in my videos “Out-of-band” aka via a Java console even when they are powered off. I have received quite a few questions about this one and figured it was time to do a video. This is what allows me to access the BIOS…
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ELK Stack Pt. 2: Collecting logs from remote servers via Beats
In one of my recent posts, Installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) on Windows Server 2012 R2, I explained how to setup and install an ELK server but it was only collecting logs from itself. That in itself isn’t very useful as the real value is when you begin collecting and indexing all of the…
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ELK Stack Pt. 1: Installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) on Windows Server 2012 R2
An updated version of this post can be found here: Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) โ Windows Server 2016 What is an ELK stack and why would you want one in your environment? Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) is the combination of 3 separate pieces of software from the same vendor, Elastic. The…
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Simple BGInfo AD logon script
This is my simple logon script for the popular BGInfo utility that uses a few batch scripts along with Group Policy to run at each user login. What this script does: Checks to see if bginfo.exe exist on the local machine, if not copy it from the network share to c:\bginfo\ Copy bg.jpg and default.bgi…
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IIS 7/7.5 Hardening SSL TLS – Windows Server 2008 R2
One of the first steps you should do when deploying a new public facing web server is hardening your server’s SSL/TLS connections. Disabling vulnerable protocols, ciphers, hashes and key exchange algorithms can help mitigate the now more common exploits like the BEAST attack. By default many weaker technologies are enabled, leaving IIS traffic vulnerable and…
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