By default SMB version 1.0 is enabled in Windows 10. As this was last needed in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it’s quite old, newer versions of SMB are more secure and have additional features. If you no longer need to support these older versions of SMB file shares, it’s a good idea to disable SMB version 1.0, or even remove it completely, as a number of recent vulnerabilities specifically affect SMB version 1.
By default SMB version 1.0 is enabled in Windows Server 2016. As this was last needed in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it’s quite old, newer versions of SMB are more secure and have additional features. If you no longer need to support these older versions of SMB file shares, it’s a good idea to disable SMB version 1.0, or even remove it completely, as a number of recent vulnerabilities specifically affect SMB version 1.
It’s important for Windows Defender to stay up to date so that new known variants of malware can be detected. This can be achieved if we integrate Windows Defender with WSUS and Windows update, which we’ll show you how to do here in Windows Server 2016.
The ‘rm’ command is used to delete files and directories, rm comes from the GNU Coreutils package and should be available by default in Unix/Linux based operating systems.
By the end of this guide you should know how to use rm to remove files and directories in Linux by following these practical examples.
This post will cover the 70-744 exam objective “implement antimalware solution with Windows Defender”, we’ll show you how to work with Windows Defender in Windows Server 2016.
By default Windows Server 2016 comes with Windows Defender installed and running. This is an improvement over Windows Server 2012, which had nothing by default although with some work you could install Windows Defender manually, however this solution was of course not officially supported.
How can we find the default configuration files for the PHP packages in CentOS Linux?
By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we can use the find command to search the file system for these files, as we will see here.
Finally we’ll cover how we can use a phpinfo file to show us which configuration file is in use.
In this post we’ll show you how to configure BitLocker group policy settings. When you enable BitLocker Drive Encryption a number of default settings will be used, such as the strength of the encryption. We can customize these using Group Policy in an Active Directory based domain, allowing us to control the BitLocker settings that get rolled out to all machines in the domain.
By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up at boot, however it is possible that the system has been configured to not boot into the GUI.
In this quick guide we will show you how to swap to the GUI and enable it to start up by default on system boot.
In Windows Server 2016, Windows Firewall is enabled by default. This allows all outgoing traffic to any destination or port, but limits incoming traffic based on specific rules. We’ll cover how to configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security by demonstrating how to open it through both the GUI and PowerShell, followed by a demonstration of how to create a custom firewall rule.
By default data transferred over the network to an SMB share is in plain text, meaning that an attacker with access to the network can view the files being transferred. By enabling SMB encryption on SMB shares this can be prevented.
When creating an SMB share either with PowerShell or through the graphical user interface (GUI) we have the option to enable SMB encryption on the share. We’ll be showing you how to enable SMB encryption on an existing SMB file share in these examples using both PowerShell and the GUI in Windows Server 2016.