IIS is not vulnerable as it does not use the OpenSSL library Update, quote Troy Hunt: Not all web servers are dependent on OpenSSL. IIS, for example, uses Microsoft’s SChannel implementation which is not at risk of this bug. Does that mean that sites on IIS are not vulnerable to Heartbleed? For the most part, … Read more
This error may be triggered by insufficient memory on RDP server. After few tries with this error, RDP managed to get a connection to the server and I was able to stop a bogus service consuming too much memory. This can be done also with sysinternals or sc.
In search of this same solution, I found what I needed under a different question in stackoverflow: Powershell-log-off-remote-session. The below one line will return a list of logged on users. query user /server:$SERVER
I’m not a fan of embedding my credentials into a script (which a few other example here do) and additionally, you generally can’t do this from something like Packer or some other system/configuration automation or in a cloud provider with an pseudo-randomly generated password. Plus, generally, I feel hardcoding your credentials into a script or … Read more
In brief Unlock/turn on console log display off timeout feature in Power Option Set timeout to 0 to turn it off. Detail Steps Unlocked the missing Power Settings feature in Server 2012. Open the following registry key – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7 Set the following value – Attributes => 2 Now open Control Panel>Power Options>Change Plan Settings>Change Advanced … Read more
I tried to reproduce this on both Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 but couldn’t get the same end result. I can confirm the initial validation error (An unknown error occurred while validating the server.), and I can see the strange query for . IN SOA, but clicking “OK” at that point appears to work … Read more
As I suspected, it’s based in the VSS subsystem (source) which also explains it’s async nature. The de-dupe chunks are stored in \System Volume Information\Dedup\ChunkStore\*, with settings in \System Volume Information\Dedup\Settings\*. This has significant impacts to how your backup software interacts with such volumes, which is explained in the linked article (in brief: w/o dedupe … Read more
Disabling TLS is a system-wide registry setting: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn786418.aspx#BKMK_SchannelTR_TLS10 Key: HKLM SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.0\Server Value: Enabled Value type: REG_DWORD Value Data: 0 Also, the PCI requirement for disabling early TLS does not go into effect until June 30, 2016. Internet Explorer is one product I know of that has a separate configuration option for the TLS/SSL encryption … Read more
While I still don’t know exactly why this happened (and would welcome explanations!) it seems to be fixed now. I went over the networking configuration with a fine tooth comb, and discovered to my chagrin that the default gateway had a typo in it! [dc1]: PS C:\Users\Administrator\Documents> Get-NetRoute -PolicyStore PersistentStore -AddressFamily IPv6 ifIndex DestinationPrefix NextHop … Read more