Hibernating your desktop on a time schedule.
DaleThe Shutdown.exe command will not let you set a time-out period for hibernating. ie. this does not work shutdown.exe /h /t 7200 Yes, you can download programs to do that. …
Cached credentials security on Windows Operating Systems.
“Where are they actually stored though? In the Roaming Profile, or somewhere else?”, asked the Problem Team. The answer is “somewhere else”. “Windows NT 4.0 has the capability to cache…
WFH Challenge – The Curious Case Of The Disappearing Microsoft Teams Authentication
and Outlook and OneDrive and ... Customers started reporting that were weren't able to use Outlook or Teams, and OneDrive failed to sync. Seems to be caused by the Zscaler…
Microsoft Teams using too much local disk space? What can you delete?
Clear Microsoft Teams cache by following these steps: Go to File Explorer, and type in %appdata%\Microsoft\teams. From ‘Blob_storage’, delete any files that are located in here if any. “%appdata%\Microsoft\teams\blob_storage” Within…
Saturday Link Roundup – Kerberos
Some Kerberos items I looked at lately Stopping Active Directory attacks and other post-exploitation behavior with AMSI and machine learning Detecting Kerberoasting Activity Hunting down DES in order to securely…
Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder – Not programmatically drivable
"One of the terms of the license is that the compression and decompression code for Zip folders should be tied to UI actions and not be programmatically drivable. The main…
The Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder Feature
was first introduced in Windows XP. Limitations of the feature No AES Encryption(1) No password support(1) No API support(1) Does not work well with Offline Offline Folders(4) With Offline Folders,…
WFH Challenge – Cylance anti-virus vs. Oracle VirtualBox
"Your anti-virus product is stopping me from working."A familiar situation where the customer was running an out of date application, relied on old of date in a web forum, then…
Time Travel Debugging in Windows 10
7 years ago I wrote about Microsoft’s useful Time Travel Debugging (TTD) tool.A customer had an issue running it recently, as TTDInject.exe was being blocked by the Cylance anti-virus product. …
Playing with FreeNAS–some issues
Some of the issues I’ve stumbled with, on FreeNAS.pkg was erroring with a “pkg: file:///usr/ports/packages/meta.txz: No such file or directory”This can be fixed by editing the configuration files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/,…