Category Archives: Security

Office 365: How to enable SharePoint Auditing

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Office 365

In this post we’ll look at how to enable SharePoint auditing. Recently I’ve been investigating some mysterious folder moves which the end users couldn’t explain, but folders were disappearing and reappearing elsewhere.

My first thought was that they have been dragged and dropped by mistake with a touchpad, it’s so easy to do if you aren’t careful.

My second thought was to check the SharePoint audit logs. Read on to learn how to enable SharePoint Auditing and view the available reports.

By default SharePoint Auditing isn’t enabled in Office 365.

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How to fix “Your Active Directory Domain Services schema isn’t configured to run BitLocker Drive Encryption.”

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Windows 10

BitLocker Drive Encryption is the technology in Windows 10 which can encrypt your hard disk drive and keep your data safe. It will usually require you to enter a pin/usb key/certificate to allow access to the encrypted hard disk drive.

Your Windows administrators are able to manage many of the settings in Active Directory, which helps in getting consistent settings across all end user computers.  If you try and turn on BitLocker and you get the following error read on how to fix it.

“Your Active Directory Domain Services schema isn’t configured to run BitLocker Drive Encryption. Contact your system administrator.”Your Active Directory Domain Services schema isn't configured to run bitlocker drive encryption contact your system administrator Continue reading →

Vendors’ response to Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

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Bash ShellShock Bug

The Meltdown and Spectre are two new  vulnerabilities in Intel, AMD and ARM processors which will effect everyone.

There is a very good technical article that the Sophos team have put together explaining in detail the issue, you can read it here, as well as many other websites which are covering the story so I won’t go into much detail, just type Meltdown/Spectre into your favourite search engine.

Instead below is a list of the major vendors which we and customers use and links to any articles they have regarding Meltdown and Spectre and their products.

Keep checking back as I will update this as more details from vendors become available.

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Top 10 Blog posts of 2017

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Happy New Year!

In 2017 the OxfordSBSGuy.com blog has gone from strength to strength, with 26 posts and 863,000 views. In 2017 I implemented SSL and been working on some tweaks here and there to improve performance.  This year I’m considering a redesign and new hosting is in the pipeline to improve performance further. Thank you for your support.

Below are the top ten articles in 2017

  1. PowerShell: Get-ADComputer to retrieve computer last logon date – part 1 (103,582 views)
  2. PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve password last set and expiry information (83,394 views)
  3. Exchange PowerShell: How to list all SMTP email addresses in Exchange (63,442 views)
  4. How to convert a Hyper-V VHDX to VMDK for VMware Workstation (31,337 views)
  5. PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve login scripts and home directories – Part 1 (31,017 views)
  6. How to install Exchange 2010 (SP3) on Windows Server 2012   (43,232 views)
  7. Server 2012: “Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded” (29,374 views)
  8. Exchange PowerShell: How to enumerate Distribution Lists, managers and members (24,264 views)
  9. Dell PERC: How to clear the foreign configuration on a HDD using the Raid Configuration Utility (21,799 views)
  10. How to resolve VMware Workstation “The network bridge on device ‘VMnet0’ is not running” (21,737 views)

Looking forward to 2018, the industry recently has been focusing on security so I’ll be brushing up on some Security Skills with Sophos and WatchGuard, and with more and more clients moving to Office 365, I intend to write a few more PowerShell scripting to help manage end users and computers in the cloud.

I hope you have a great year!
Carl
www.OxfordSBSGuy.com

WatchGuard Fireware v12.1 released

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watchguard

WatchGuard have released Fireware 12.1 on 18 December 2017. This replaces the previous version of 12.0.2.

Full release notes can be found here. Please read them before upgrading! Your Firebox must be running, XTM v11.7.5, v11.8.4 or v11.9 or higher before upgrading.

Fireware v12.x is not supported on Firebox X 5 Series devices, models 505, 510, 520 or 530.

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WatchGuard Fireware v12.0.2 released

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Note: Fireware v12.1 is now available, see here for details.

WatchGuard Fireware v12.0.2 was released on 4 December 2017. This replaces the previous version of 12.0.1.

Full release notes can be found here. Please read them before upgrading! Your Firebox must be running, XTM v11.7.5, v11.8.4 or v11.9 or higher before upgrading.

Fireware v12.x is not supported on Firebox X 5 Series devices, models 505, 510, 520 or 530.

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Office 365: How to change your Office 365 App Password

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Office 365

If you use Multi Factor Authentication in an Office 365 environment then you will need to use App Passwords for some applications that don’t support Multi Factor Authentication like Outlook, or other email clients on mobile devices.

If you’ve forgotton your App Password or need to delete or create a new one, here is where to find them and how to create a new one.

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