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SSL/TLS Diffie-Hellman Modulus <= 1024 Bits (Logjam) Configure the following registry and restart the server [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\C...
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1) Issue: { "msg": "basic: the specified credentials were rejected by the server", "unreachable...
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Issue: After installing SCCM 2007 client, the computer is unable to download Actions and components. checking C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CCM\Logs\C...
Monday, August 31, 2020
Extending a disk on a window system using PowerShell and PowerCLI
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Common SSL/TLS vulnerability fixes
SSL/TLS Diffie-Hellman Modulus <= 1024 Bits (Logjam)
Configure the following registry and restart the server
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\KeyExchangeAlgorithms\Diffie-Hellman]
"ServerMinKeyBitLength"=dword:00000800
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol CRIME Vulnerability - Splunkd port 8089
Change allowSslCompression = true to false and restart splunkforwarder service
C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\system\default>more server.conf | findstr allowSslCompression
allowSslCompression = false
SSL/TLS Diffie-Hellman Modulus <= 1024 Bits (Logjam)
Add the following line in sshd_config and restart sshd service
# Ciphers and keying
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Shutdown and Startup VMs using PowerCLI
Shutdown
Startup
Get and Set DNS search order using PowerShell
Export list of all hosts in Ansible Tower Inventory using PowerShell
Get network interfaces of all VMs in an Azure subscription using PowerShell
Check missing updates on a SCCM client using PowerShell
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Manage SCCM using PowerShell
Remove member from SCCM collection
Delete computer from SCCM
Monday, August 10, 2020
Change user password, enable account using Ansible
Friday, August 7, 2020
Collect hardware metrics from physical Windows Servers
Background
It is often needed to monitor your server infrastructure in terms of performance metrics. Virtual servers could be monitored through hypervisor management software such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. However, monitoring physical servers for hardware metrics in the absense of a monitoring solution could be a challenge.
Script/Commands
The following commands can be incorporated in your script to retrieve hardware metrics