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Disabling PowerShell v2 with Group Policy

robwillisinfo — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:39:09 +0000

In this post I am going to tackle something that I have been wanting to play around with for awhile, disabling PowerShell v2 at an enterprise scale. As a former systems engineer and now a security engineer, I have a love/hate relationship with PowerShell since it is amazingly useful but also incredibly dangerous in the […]

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Powershell scripts fail when deployed via Group Policy as Startup scripts with Event ID 1055 and 1130

robwillisinfo — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:27:23 +0000

I recently went to deploy a new Powershell based Startup script in my test environment, and while the majority of my Windows machines happily complied, 2 of my test servers that were running Remote Desktop Services did not like the new Startup policy. The script itself was pretty straight forward – it pulled some files […]

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IIS 8 with ECC certificates – increasing your SSL Security on Windows Server 2012

robwillisinfo — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:20:26 +0000

What is an ECC Certificate and why would you need one? The main difference with an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate is with how the certificate is signed, in this case the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is used vs the standard RSA we are used to seeing. Once you have a certificate signed […]

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Using Windows Server 2012 R2 for Shared Storage via iSCSI with Microsoft Failover Clustering (Video How-to)

robwillisinfo — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:22:37 +0000

In this video I give a basic break down of how to install and configure shared storage on Windows Server 2012 R2 and then use that storage with a Microsoft Failover Cluster with Multi-path I/O (MPIO) support and 100% validation in cluster manager. Shared storage is often the biggest hurdle when getting into building your […]

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