davethemaker

Category: Windows

  • Hyper-V Virtual Machine Practice

    I’ve been spinning up VMs using VirtualBox (by Oracle), including Centos 7, Kali Linux, Ubuntu- and for this exercise I am jumping into the Windows world to spin up a VM there. Above, you can see that I used the VM Wizard to provide the attributes that I want, setting memory size, networking (external), hard…

  • Hardening Windows: Kerberos

    There are a number of network hardening solutions, including network authentication. This is the process of authenticating the identity provided, to ensure proper access to network resources. There are several approaches: the challenge-response/three-way-handshake, which uses a shared secret, OAuth (an internet, token-based authentication system), OpenID (open source, third party service allows non-related sites access to…

  • Windows: Creating Global Group (AD)

    In the last post, I created a group within a local OU, and this time I’m going to be creating a global group. This is still working on the Windows Server VM Here I have created a group, and you can see how I selected Global Group scope option: Great! Now I add users to…

  • Windows: Creating a Group

    In this exercise, I accessed a VM and within the Active Directory, created a ‘Managers’ group within a OU container (‘Users’). I have to say it’s a little strange working in a GUI like this after spending so much time on a command line interface! Now, time to fill out this newly-created Managers group with…

  • Windows: Managing User Accounts (Active Directory)

    In my previous post, I created a user within an OU, and now I’m going to practice managing user accounts. Brace yourself, the fun is about to begin! 🙂 Similar to before, I accessed the virtual machine Windows Server > Tools > AD Users and Computers. First, I practiced unlocking a user account. Next, I…

  • Windows: Creating User Accounts

    In my security class, I am learning much more about the Windows security environment, and that including creating user accounts. Here are some of what I learned from my hands-on practice to put into play what I learned. Here I’m working on a Windows Server Virtual Machine: Next, I select Tools > Active Directory Users…

  • Windows: Group Policies (GPO)

    Continuing the education (for me) of the Windows world, being that my background has been working on a Mac workstation, configuring Linux instances, and while working on a Windows platform, I never looked behind the curtain, as it were. So here we go! Group Policy Management is the umbrella approach for creating Group Policy Objects…

  • Entering the Windows world (AD)

    Much of my background has been working with Linux OS and such in terms of creating a network and allocating resources, configuration, and such. So, when the networking class carved out an entire section on Active Directories, Domains, and configuration, I decided to write down some of my thoughts and experiences here. Definitely gives me…