Tag: "Microsoft"

Server 2008 R2: Active Directory Functional Levels

Windows Server 2008 R2 was released in August, and it introduced new functional levels for Active Directory. This article takes a look back at the different functional levels of the past and what is new in the latest release of the server operating system for Active Directory (yes, a recycle bin for AD objects!).

Functional levels [...]

2008 Server to the Core

One of my favorite websites in the days of Windows 2000 Server was a project from a group of system managers from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; it was titled “Real Men Don’t Click”, and it was dedicated to accomplishing tasks solely using the command line interface (CLI). [...]

Who’s Being Promiscuous in Your Active Directory?

I’m always a fan of more queries and peaks at what is going on in my AD domain, especially at what is happening on the workstations. I was working on some WMI queries to get information about network interfaces using the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class, and thought about promqry.exe. Promqry is a tool provided by Microsoft to [...]

Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability

Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability

Microsoft is recommending setting the kill bit for an ActiveX control object, MPEG2TuneRequest, to avoid an in the wild zero day exploit that allows for remote code execution when a web site containing the exploit is browsed by a user with Internet Explorer.

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