If you have an environment where all Windows servers are hardened to meet government standard then you might have little luck in installing SharePoint without getting waiver. As per requirements…
SP does not bode well with DOD FIPS compliance. There is no work around except to get a waiver to exclude the SP server from implementing FIPS 140-2. FIPS 140-2…
Proper documentation is vital for recovery. Experiences taught me how important it is to test and document it. Also I've come across Exchange or MS Windows admins who have taken…
I patch the Windows environment quarterly. I thoroughly test the MS Windows updates before bringing and patching the internet disconnected production environment. As I was testing on my lab vms…
Something botched my Windows 7 VM on my lab while testing the December 2017 updates. 2017-12 Security Monthly Rollup update failed. I tried to troubleshoot for couple of days but…
Clients were not able to download windows update. In the Windowsupdate.log, following entries were found # WARNING: Download failed, error = 0x80244019 http://192.168.1.15:8530/Content/35/A49C2828A8DA7AC1B2F9F337D18E7D628C71F635.cab, local path = C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload135d679f6dc8ae16fb2353ef1ec1c4fwindows6.1-kb3177186-x64-express.cab 2016-09-14 14:22:35:785 956 860 DnldMgr Error 0x80244019…
As per the new RMF directive, we are to follow the DISA STIG benchmark for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Although we will have months to go, I…
I was trying to filter events on DC to check for NTLM & kerberos authentication. There are limitations using basic filtering. I can use XML filtering and Custom Views.Custom Views…
Problem: I normally patch WSUS server at the end. I ran a quarterly patch on WSUS server itself. Couple of hours after patching I found out that clients were not…
Deploying Adobe quarterly patch and the security update is pain specially when you have environment with no internet connection. Note: You need to remove the older version of Adobe Reader…