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Automatically Block RDP Brute Force Attack

May 8, 2012 1 min read

Nice little visual basic script that creates a sink to monitor failed RDP logons and adds them to a ban list for RDP. https://github.com/EvanAnderson/ts_block You may also be…

Calculate Windows Pagefile Size

May 7, 2012 1 min read

This is just a resource for me.  Tons of posts involving this topic.  I hope to get these cleaned up and put into a nice table or something…

Allow Inbound ICMP on Server 2008 R2

April 21, 2012 1 min read

Here is how to enable ICMPv4 echo from the command line using netsh in Server 2008 R2 netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request…

Ping Sweep from Windows Command Line

April 10, 2012 2 min read

I remote connect into networks frequently and there are times when I'm not sure what is on the network (like network printers, etc.) and I need to find…

Windows Security Logon Types

March 27, 2012 2 min read

Windows Security Logon Types Event 528 and Event 540 are the Logon events. Event 528 is for all logons except "network" logons. "Network" logons are SMB/Microsoft-DS logons (i.e.…

Tool: NetTime

March 20, 2012 1 min read

Found this nice little tool for NTP synchronization.  I like that it can be easily installed/uninstalled as a Windows service. NetTime is a simple time synchronization client for…

Tool: Graphical Ping

March 20, 2012 1 min read

I came across a nice little ping tool for Windows which shows graphical representation of ping time history. Small sweet little tool.   You can find Graphical Ping…

Enable Remote Registry from Command Line

March 14, 2012 1 min read

This is how I enable the Remote Registry on local system or remote system from the command line in Windows 7 and/or Windows XP. sc start RemoteRegistry To…

Windows To Go Step-by-Step Guide

March 11, 2012 1 min read

New to windows 8 is a feature called Windows to go. Windows to go allows you to run Windows on USB device such as USB stick or USB hard drive.…

Microsoft LogParser GUI

March 10, 2012 1 min read

LogParser Studio has recently been released and is a long awaited release at that. It now provides a GUI interface for LogParser utility with Windows server and Windows…