Here is a quick hodge-podge of linkage this somber day off for some of us.
Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature - Troy Hunt’s blog - wonderfully deep post on strategies for designing a “reset password” feature.
Serva 32/64 - free/portable multi-server platform.
TFTPD32 - opensource IPv6 ready TFTP server/service for windows
Critical hole in Seagate BlackArmor NAS - The H Security: News and Features - oh snap!
OutlookAddressBookView - NirSoft - new/free tool to display and export Outlook Address book information.
MRTG Quickstart (by Tony Fortunato) - LoveMyTool blog.
New version of Nmap out:
- ISC Diary | nmap 6 released - ISC Diary
- Nmap 6 released - Help Net Security news
- NMAP.org - Download the Free Nmap Security Scanner for Linux/MAC/UNIX or Windows
Am I pwn3d? Windows *Native* Tool Triage - Open Security Research blog
NetCalc v1.1.0 - updated - woanware
Deny and allow workstation logons with Group Policy - 4sysops
How To: Read CID on SD card - GetUSBInfo blog. Very interesting information.
Windows credentials dumper - tippage via TinyApps bloggist to the Quarks PwDump tool. Read the QuarksLAB Blog for more information. One of the reasons I’ve wanted to build a new virtualized session of XP recently.
Notification Area Cleaner for Windows 7 - IT Samples - free and works for me! - As spotted in this AddictiveTips post: Remove All Windows System Tray Icons Left By Uninstalled Applications - Notification Area Cleaner
Data Recovery SOS - Eassos interesting freeware tool for recovery of lost/deleted files. I’ve got more than a free excellent freeware file-recovery tools and this has been added to that pile. Spotted in this AddictiveTips post: Eassos Recovery: Recover Lost Partitions & Deleted Data From Hard Disk.
Bonus find, Eassos PartitionGuru Free (link at the bottom of the page). Really slick and neat tool for both file and partition recovery..as well as some additional disk info/tool features.
How to find computer model name or serial number in Windows 7 - Windows Club tip. From CMD “wmic csproduct get name” done.
SysExporter - v1.60 update by NirSoft - “Added support for DirectUI control, which is used to display files and folders on Explorer Windows of Windows 7.”
Directory Monitor - freeware - BrutalDeveloper - Another interesting tool to monitor changes to a folder and can run as a service. Reminded me of Track Folder Changes.
Precision and purpose: Ubuntu 12.04 and the Unity HUD reviewed - Ars Technica - As I’ve been getting ready for my updated Xplico post, I’ve been working in the latest builds of Ubuntu, which use the “Unity” interface. It has taken a while to get used to, but is very slick and handy.
And then there was AD…
I’m still getting up to speed in Active Directory administration and operations. I’ve come a long way but have a long way to go in feeling more comfortable in my day-to-day operations support. If anyone has any tips, book (or e-book) recommendations, or virtual server/lab resources they could recommend, I would be grateful. I’m less interested (for now) in building/deploying AD environments from the ground up, and more focused on how to actually improve my reporting and object administration in the immediacy.
I’ve been working through/with the following freeware resources and find them very helpful, but I really need to have a safe way to practice and poke things (as in not on our live domain) as well as find a more formalized and structured study process to get up to speed in “boots on the ground” AD administration.
- Free Active Directory Tools - 4sysops
- AD Explorer - Windows Sysinternals tool
- PsLoggedOn - Windows Sysinternals tool
- AD Info - Active Directory Reporting Tool - free tool from Cjwdev
- SysAdmin - ria-media software - free and beautiful GUI (Metro style perhaps?) for AD management duties
- LIZA - Active Directory Security, Permission and ACL Analysis - free tool from CerroTorre Software UG. From the product page it is a “…free tool for Active Directory environments which allows you to display and analyse object rights in the directory hierarchy. You could use the tool for example to perform security permission analysis in an AD domain or the AD Configuration Partition.”
- LAZARUS - Active Directory Deleted Objects Recovery - free tool from CerroTorre Software UG. From the product page it is a “…which allows you to access the hidden system container 'Deleted Objects'. This is where a domain controller (or ADAM/AD LDS server) stores the deleted directory objects for a while, before they get deleted physically from the Active Directory database.”
- LUMAX - Active Directory User Maintenance - free tool from CerroTorre Software UG. From the product page it is a “…free tool for Active Directory environments which provides important properties of user or computer accounts in a simple, fast and easy view.”
- Lepide Range Free Tools - Server Management Software
- Active Directory Reports Lite - Free MaxPowerSoft LDAP Reporting Tool
- ADManager Plus - ManageEngine provides an extensive list of specialized tools for AD administration…all free.
- PowerGUI.org - Free Windows Powershell Community Tool coupled with the AD-Network Admin PowerPack and a few other Active Directory plug ins.
- Useful commands for Windows administrators - well organized and offered by Rob van der Woude on his website.
- View Additional User Information in AD Users and Computers - Petri.co
- Active Directory - Petri.co super-list of tips and tricks.
- Managing Active Directory OUs, Users, and Groups | Active Directory after Installation - InformIT
- Active Directory :: Server Administration - eTutorials.org
- Active Directory. Windows server 2003 Windows 2000 :: Server Administration - eTutorials.org
- Using Active Directory Users and Computers - Hausustorm.com
- Windows 2000 Server - Administrators Companion- Hausustorm.com
Cheers and thanks.
--Claus V.
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