Once upon a case...

I, too, can do click-bait title BS! Alright, this has been in my draft folder for almost two years....

Date: 04/01/2018

Whether you are currently using them or planning to issue one, here is (I hope) all you need to know...

Date: 01/03/2018

For those who don't know, there is a pretty cool feature built-in in Windows since Windows...

Date: 11/03/2017

The question of whether you should rename the built-in administrator account in Active Directory...

Date: 10/17/2017

Yes it takes just 2 lines of PowerShell to impersonate whoever you want... A small preamble: things...

Date: 06/30/2017

Update 2018-01-06: Lots of new things came up so I updated this article. Update 2018-04-10: Few...

Date: 02/06/2017

In Windows Server 2012 R2 ADFS (well that everybody calls ADFS 3), the display name of the ADFS farm...

Date: 12/02/2016

If you'd like to know all the possible security event in your system, the best way to do it is to...

Date: 11/05/2016

UPDATE: The following update is fixing this issue: Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 and...

Date: 10/23/2016

Yes there are some ways to workaround the password policy... Mainly for operators and administrators...

Date: 10/20/2016

When it comes to track down account lockouts, there are plenty of tools and techniques. Looking at...

Date: 10/02/2016

In Windows Server 2012 R2, the ADFS database actually does not keep track of the servers member of...

Date: 09/13/2016

When it comes to try and fail fast, nothing better than to be able to restore things the way it used...

Date: 08/23/2016

Changing the Service-Communications certificate for the Windows Server 2012 R2 ADFS servers and...

Date: 11/25/2015

DISCLAIMER: This post is a POC written for ADFS on Windows Server 2012 R2 When you have more than...

Date: 10/18/2015

IMPORTANT: This article applies to Windows Server 2012 R2 ADFS (aka ADFS 3). In Windows Server 2016...

Date: 10/11/2015

Here is the scenario, your ADFS farm is happy, up and running. Because of update management...

Date: 09/04/2015

As it is recommended on the following TechNet article: Advanced Customization of AD FS Sign-in Pages...

Date: 09/04/2015

If you want your users to use only their sAMAccountName to login to the ADFS form-based sign-in...

Date: 09/02/2015

One of the great benefits of the latest version of ADFS is that you do not need to know HTML or...

Date: 02/15/2015

I have been running into this issue a couple of times. You have a forest with multiple domains and...

Date: 11/16/2014

2/26/2016 Update, cf the I disagree with the PowerShell output section. In short, yes... Meaning...

Date: 10/29/2014

Raising the functional level of your domain is a pretty straight forward operation. It is a...

Date: 09/07/2014

I wrote the equivalent of fixfsmo.vbs in PowerShell: Fix-InvalidFsmo.ps1. For those who don't...

Date: 08/26/2014

This post is a part of the Metadata series. Have a look at the intro to have more information about...

Date: 08/25/2014

You are on site, audit wasn't properly configured and yet you need to understand what has changed....

Date: 08/25/2014

You look at Windows Server 2012 R2 and you tell yourself: "that would be nice if I could leverage...

Date: 07/13/2014

You probably wonder why that could be a big deal. Usually clients not doing LDAPs are the ones we...

Date: 03/09/2014