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Adding Windows Photo Viewer to Server 2016
Autopsy – Digital Forensics software
Alpha organisation of VPNs in Win 10
Found this when I did a quick search online, after being frustrated by the disorganised VPN icons (which when clicked from the Network system tray icon only opens the list AGAIN in a new window!)… This arranges the VPNs alphanumerically, but also permits a connection with a single click from the sys tray icon! Win!
- Open regedit
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Settings\Network
- Take ownership of the “Network” key/folder (right click, Permissions)
- Select “Advanced” in the Permissions window
- In the Advanced window, select “Change” where the owner field is (at the top of the window)
- Type in your username and save your changes.
- Close the advanced window
- Now select “Administrators” in the security tab
- Make sure “Full control” is selected, then apply changes
- Now that’s done, double click “ReplaceVan”
- Change it’s value to 2
Testing remote LPR queue
LPQ -S <ipaddress> -P <queue_name>
Another list of handy utilites…
I came across this one while searching for an easy way to recursively remove empty directories in Windows – but there are plenty of other little gadgets here:
Free security and forensics utlities
A handy collection of free forensics and security utilities is available here:
Outlook 2016 Autodiscover
Found this recently while setting up a Hosted Exchange account, where autodiscover was configured with an SRV record but no XML or other newer methods. Outlook was taking forever to finish “searching for account settings”, and google helped me with the following reg key to prevent Outlook from retrying the first methods over and over – and just go on to the next!
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover]
“ExcludeHttpsRootDomain”=dword:00000001
All good – account setup took a couple of seconds after that!
Patch Cleaner
This is another handy utility – this one will collect data on all the leftover install files from WinSXS and other temp folders, and remove the unnecessary ones. It is possible to save quite a lot of disk space on servers that have been provisioned with small disks…
Proactively dealing with ransomware
This handy article describes a handful of tactics to slow down the progress (and potentially stifle) a ransomware infection…
http://www.freeforensics.org/2016/03/proactively-reacting-to-ransomware.html?m=1
