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Get MBAM BitLocker Recovery Keys from Microsoft SQL Server

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Get MBAM BitLocker Recovery Keys from Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) provides a simplified administrative interface that you can use to manage BitLocker Drive Encryption. Therefore, customers find this solution very useful for managing client PCs with BitLocker that are domain-joined on-premises. In this article, we shall discuss how to Get MBAM BitLocker Recovery Keys from Microsoft SQL Server. Please…

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How to determine Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory

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How to determine Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory

In this guide, I will show you How to determine Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory. A Tombstone Lifetime will help determine how long a deleted object can be stored within an active directory. This deleted object is not fully removed from the Active Directory but is marked as a Tombstone Lifetime object. We cannot access…

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AD Recovery: Fix device ran into an issue with error 0xc00002e2

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AD Recovery: Fix device ran into an issue with error 0xc00002e2

In this article, we shall discuss “AD Recovery: Fix device ran into an issue with error 0xc00002e2”. Recently, my lab environments have been repeatedly restarting due to a faulty switch. After extensive research to solve this issue before performing VM recovery, I discovered that the problem was caused by the Hyper-V host experiencing unplanned restarts….

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How to demote and remove a Domain Controller on Windows Servers

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How to demote and remove a Domain Controller on Windows Servers

In this article, you will learn how to demote and remove a Domain Controller on Windows Servers. According to techdirectarchive a domain controller (DC) is a server computer that responds to authentication requests. It participates in the replication and contains a complete copy of all directory information for its domain. If you want to know…

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PetitPotam attack on Active Directory Certificate Services: How to mitigate NTLM Relay PetitPotam attack on AD CS

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PetitPotam attack on Active Directory Certificate Services: How to mitigate NTLM Relay PetitPotam attack on AD CS

In this guide, we will discuss “PetitPotam attack on AD Certificate Services: mitigate NTLM”. Recently, Lionel Gilles, a French-based Offensive Computer Security researcher based in Paris, France published a PoC tool on NTLM Relay Attacks known as PetitPotam that exploits the MS-EFSRPC (Encrypting File Services Remote Protocol). Here is an example of such documents: NT LAN Manager:…

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How to delete Organizational Unit in Active Directory

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How to delete Organizational Unit in Active Directory

An organizational unit (OU) is a container within the Active Directory in which you can place users, groups, computer objects, and even nested OUs. You can create organizational units to mirror your organization’s functional or business structure. In this article, I will show you How to delete Organizational Unit in Active Directory. For some related…

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