Classic whodunit – the file is gone. Who deleted it? Well, unless you’ve already prepared for this, Windows has no log for you. Sorry. The good news is that this is an excellent time to prepare for the next time. So let’s do that. Enable the auditing of file operations to the Windows Event Log […]
I wrote this tool today, as I was annoyed having to do a bunch of changes to a configuration file on a client site through a restrictive remote tool that doesn’t let you paste or transfer any files for “security reasons” (read: BOFH) It pastes text, files and entire directory structures by simulating keyboard input. […]
This is a reference for the commands to enable the firewall rules necessary to remotely manage Windows Server Core and Hyper-V Core. I keep having to look these up… Enable-NetFireWallRule -DisplayName “Windows Management Instrumentation (DCOM-In)” Enable-NetFireWallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Event Log Management” Enable-NetFireWallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Service Management” Enable-NetFireWallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Volume Management” Enable-NetFireWallRule -DisplayGroup “Remote Scheduled […]
If you use Cygwin to mainly manipulate files in your regular Windows filesystem, under /cygdrive/…, you have probably seen this message more than a few times: “The permissions on <node> are incorrectly ordered, which may cause some entries to be ineffective” You have also likely seen “NULL SID” as the top entry in permission lists. […]
Microsoft has apparently messed up their integration of the Hyper-V Manager on Windows 10 with Hyper-V Server hosts, resulting in the above error message showing up on the “Security” tab of virtual machines. So now what do you do if you want to disable Secure Boot to load some Linux distribution that doesn’t support it? […]
I’ve previously presented a manual process for doing this, but lately I’ve had to do it more often, and I figured it was about time for automation. This script will: Run e2fsck on the root file system Erase logfiles, such as bash_history and stuff in /var/log Erase the test.h264 video file Wipe resolv.conf Defragment the […]
In this example, we’ll be using a wildcard certificate from Let’s Encrypt, obtained through their recently released wildcard certificate offering. What we’re doing The use case is that we want, for one reason or another, to use this certificate in an environment that does not have unrestricted internet access, such as a health institution or […]
Mostly notes to myself, but hey, maybe it helps you too! Get Kali for the GPD Pocket I installed using re4son’s modified image from here. Removing the GRUB splash screen (it’s sideways anyway, which looks horrible, and I’m not multibooting) /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_BACKGROUND=”” Speeding up WiFi so it doesn’t lag if you SSH into the […]
“We removed extra line breaks from this message.” Well, how helpful of you. Now the email from my crontab script is all in one line. You can disable this “helpful functionality” permanently in Outlook by doing this: Open Outlook On the File tab, select Options In the Options window, select Mail In the Message format […]
So, the machine auto-activates Windows 10 Home Edition at install time. No prompts, no nothing. You insert the generic upgrade key, and it throws an unhelpful error message back at you: Error code 0x83FA067 means exactly the same thing, as does 0xC004F069. This probably surprises nobody, but trying again, as the above message suggests, will […]