We can configure user and device claim types in Active Directory which can be used as part of Dynamic Access Control (DAC) in a Windows based environment.
DAC was added in Windows Server 2012 to allow administrators to configure custom authorization to a file server by using conditional logic using user and device claim types. This is quite powerful, we can have permissions to a user change and update automatically based on changes to attributes to the user or device itself.
Debian 9 Stretch was released as the latest stable version of the Linux Debian operating system today. While you can install Debian 9 Stretch fresh, you can also perform an in place upgrade from Debian 8 Jessie quite easily, which is what we will cover here.
Access-denied remediation, also known as access-denied assistance, allows us to set a predefined error message to be provided to a user that attempts to access a file or folder that they do not have permissions to. Rather than receiving a generic permission denied error, an administrator can instead customize the error message. We can perform access-denied remediation by both setting it up manually on a file server, or automatically for many file servers through group policy.
We can configure file access auditing in Windows Server 2016 so that events are logged every time a specified user or group successfully accesses or attempts and fails to access a specified file or folder. This post will show you how to configure file access auditing in Windows Server 2016.
We can configure file classification infrastructure (FCI) using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) in Windows to classify different files based on various attributes. While files have the usual properties on them such as creation date and owner for example, we can use FCI to add our own custom properties to a file. This allows us to classify files in our environment automatically based on the contents of the file.
We can deploy security baseline configurations to domain and non-domain joined servers with Security Compliance Manager (SCM). This is done by first exporting the security baseline as a GPO, and then importing it either as group policy or local policy depending on whether or not the client is a member of an active directory domain.
We can configure file management tasks with File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) in Windows Server 2016 to perform various tasks on the file server for us.
For example we can configure scheduled tasks to to complete specific actions, such as expire files older than a certain date automatically and archive them, or encrypt files that match a specific criteria. We can also run custom scripts on a specific set of files to perform arbitrary actions as required.
In this example we’ll show you how to configure file management tasks in Windows Server 2016, however the steps are very similar to older versions of the Windows operating system.
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I recently upgraded the firmware on my QNAP NAS from QTS 4.2.x to 4.3.x, and in doing so Plex stopped working. It was difficult to find information online to fix the problem, so I figured I’d write this short post on how to fix the issue.
SMB 3.1.1 was added with Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 operating systems. This post will cover the SMB 3.1.1 protocol security features that have been introduced, outlining why you would want to use them.
RPM files exist to make the software installation and upgrading process easier. They allow us to simply use an RPM file to install a software package, and when combined with package managers such as Yum or DNF we will also get all required dependencies downloaded and installed easily.