Category: Security
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What’s the story about TPM owner password and BitLocker recovery password?
Everyone, Thanks for answering the poll in previous post! Most of you uses Active Directory to backup recovery information – I hope this post can help you to understand what you need to consider, validate and develop in the future. With the release of Windows 10 1607 and 1703, there have been changes how to…
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Pre-post regarding BitLocker/TPM
I have an ongoing post how to handle TPM and BitLocker recovery keys with MBAM, BitLocker Administration and Management. To better understand what you are using, what problems you have with this today, please answer the poll, give me some comments and I will do my best to answer them.
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MDOP December servicing release
I know, a bit late, but it wasn’t until now I saw there was a December servicing release to MDOP, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. The most interesting part to me are the MBAM fixes, but there are fixes to App-V as well, read about below or just go ahead and download them: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3198158. For App-V 5.1 RTM, this servicing release fixes the…
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Download Microsoft Update updates and patches for offline installation
Just a small note on a great tool that will help you to download all the patches you would like to install offline and without internet connection, WSUS Offline Update. When you open the tool, UpdateGenerator.exe, it will ask you for what Microsoft updates to download (no support for Windows 10 yet) Press start and…
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EMET, Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, 5.2
New version of EMET released! This new release includes new functionality and updates, such as:– Attack Surface Reduction (ASR), to limit the attack surface of applications and reduce attacks– Export Address Table Filtering Plus (EAF+), to improve and extend the current EAF mitigation– 64-bit ROP mitigations, to anticipate future exploitation techniques– Several security, compatibility and…
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.3
MBSA has been updated with minor fixes. MBSA is a free tool from Microsoft to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.3 release adds support for Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2012. Windows 2000 will no longer be supported with this release. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7558
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