Author: Alan Burchill
Security Compliance Manager 4.0 now available for download!
The Security Compliance Manager (SCM) is a free tool from Microsoft that enables you to quickly configure, and manage the computers in your environment using Group Policy and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. This version of SCM supports Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016. You can easily configure computers running Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 based on Microsoft Recommended…
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows operating systems
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More Microsoft Guidance on MS16-072
So Microsoft PFE team have just released a blog called “Who broke my user GPO?” which is rather ironically title as the answer was “Microsoft did”. But anyhow, this new post has a detail description of the problem and what can be done to fix the issues and what to do if you have AGPM deployed in your environment.. It…
Official Microsoft Guidance for MS16-072 Breaking Security Patch
Microsft has just published a post about the MS16-072 hotfix that was release this month. Needless to say there has been a lot of organisation caught off guard by this change wanting to know how to fix the problem. However what is also more confusing is there are actaully two different ways to fix this problem. You can either add…
How to fix broken GPO because of MS16-072
So as many of you may know, yesterday Microsoft released a security hotfix that changed the behavior of Group Policy. Put simply if you have a security group filtered User Group Policy Object and you also removed the “Authenticated Users” group from the policy it will no longer apply after you install MS16-072. In light of this Ian Farr from…
Updated – MS16-072 may break your User Group Policies “by-design”
This is a PSA for all Group Policy administrator about MS16-072 that was release yesterday. This patch fixed a man in the middle attack using Group Policy Update however it appears that it has also changed the behavior that Group Policy is applied. If you have a security filtered group policy that are applied to users AND you have also…
MS16-072 – Important: Security Update for Group Policy (3163622) – Version: 1.0
Severity Rating: ImportantRevision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker launches a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack against the traffic passing between a domain controller and the target machine . from Microsoft Security Content http://ift.tt/1Ps6zmv via IFTTT
New Enterprise improvements coming to IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.1
June 14, 2016 10:00 am In Windows 10 version 1511, we announced a number of improvements to our collection of Enterprise Mode tools, designed to help customers upgrade more easily to Internet Explorer 11. These tools include a new v.2 Enterprise Mode XML schema, which is designed to be simpler,…
