Eric Fitzgerald posted information that LogLogic has made available an open-source log collection tool called Lasso for Windows logs. According to the LogLogic web site: Responding to customer feedback, LogLogic architected and implemented Project Lasso to provide centralized log management,…
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Sharepoint Portal Services Auditing Tool
Eric Fitzgerald references a post by Roberto D’Angelo on a Sharepoint Portal Services auditing tool. When we fully implement Sharepoint this year this is a tool we’ll be looking at.
IT Security Awareness Training
Andy, ITGuy recently blogged about the need for better Security Awareness Training. That’s one of my focus areas this year for my company. My first bi-month newsletter goes out this week. I’ve received approval to put on mandatory IT security…
UserAccountControl Flags
Many of the scripts I use to produce reports on active directory accounts utilize the UserAccountControl flag. Microsoft KB article 305144 documents how to use the UserAccountControl flags to manipulate user account propertiess to manipulate user account properties. You can…
JOEWARE
My research that lead me to the lastLogonTimestamp attribute also lead me to http://www.joeware.net/win/free/all.htm and the OldCmp utility. There are a number of potentially useful utilities but I’ve just used OldCmp (http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/oldcmp.htm). Using the utility I found a number of…
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lastLogonTimestamp
While doing some research on determining the last time a user logged in to a domain, I came across the lastLogonTimestamp attribute: Prior to Windows Server 2003, determining the last time a user logged on to the domain was somewhat…
Virus and Malware Reference Guide
The February 1, 2007 issue of Windows Secrets (you can subscribe here)included an article on antimalware tools by Fred Langa. The article references the Secunia web site: One of the best references I know for finding malware-removal tools is Secunia.…
Active Directory LDAP Searches
I have had occasion recently to run scripts to query Microsoft Server 2003 Active Directory to determine which accounts have “password never expires”, “user can’t change password”, and the like. I dabble in scripting off and on and tend to…
Internet Explorer 7 Phishing Filter Performance Update
This week the IE Blog posted an entry about an update to IE 7 to rectify a performance issue with the IE 7 Phishing filter: This update addresses an issue experienced by some users where CPU usage is high when…
