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Devices | Facebook Design Nov. 22, 2017, 2:16 p.m.

Images and Sketch files of popular devices.

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AWS Summit Auckland On-Demand Nov. 3, 2017, 8:41 a.m.

AWS Summit On-Demand provides online access to all the key sessions recorded live from the 2017 AWS Summit Auckland.

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User Rights Assignment Oct. 31, 2017, 8:19 a.m.

User rights govern the methods by which a user can log on to a system. User rights are applied at the local computer level, and they allow users to perform tasks on a computer or in a domain. User rights include logon rights and permissions. Logon rights control who is authorized to log on to a computer and how they can log on. User rights permissions control access to computer and domain resources, and they can override permissions that have been set on specific objects. User rights are managed in Group Policy under the User Rights Assignment item.

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TechNet Library Home Oct. 30, 2017, 4:13 p.m.

The TechNet Library contains technical documentation for IT professionals using Microsoft products, tools, and technologies.

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Windows Protocols Oct. 30, 2017, 4:11 p.m.

The Windows Protocols documentation contains detailed technical specifications for Microsoft protocols that are implemented and used by Windows to interoperate or communicate with other Microsoft products. It also contains technical specifications for extensions to industry-standard and other published protocols that are used by Windows. In addition, the documentation includes a set of companion technology overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

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Per-user services in Windows 10 and Windows Server Oct. 19, 2017, 4:47 p.m.

Per-user services are services that are created when a user signs into Windows or Windows Server and are stopped and deleted when that user signs out. These services run in the security context of the user account - this provides better resource management than the previous approach of running these kinds of services in Explorer, associated with a preconfigured account, or as tasks.

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The effects of GPO version numbers on Group Policy replication Oct. 18, 2017, 4:20 p.m.

There are two portions of every GPO. The Group Policy Template (GPT) is stored in the SYSVOL of each domain controller and the Group Policy Container (GPC) is stored in the Active Directory database. Each of these GPO portions has an associated version number that keeps track of how many changes have occurred to the computer and user portions within the GPO.

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PowerShell: How to require either one parameter or the other but not both Oct. 17, 2017, 7:38 p.m.

You can do this using parameter sets. By putting each parameter in one set and not the other, PowerShell will take care of the rest.

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Understanding the GPO version number Oct. 17, 2017, 7:38 p.m.

If you've ever poked around to look at the raw GPO version number, you've probably wondered why is the number so huge and how does it get displayed as a much smaller value when you view the version number using GPMC.

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What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter Oct. 17, 2017, 11:39 a.m.

A new mentor of mine suggested I read Jeff Bezos’ Letter to Shareholders to refine my thoughts around building a career and a business. So I read them all dating back to 1997 and here are my takeaways.

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[MS-GPAC]: Group Policy: Audit Configuration Extension Oct. 16, 2017, 1:56 p.m.

Documentation for Group Policy: Audit Configuration Extension, which provides a mechanism for an administrator to control audit policies on clients.

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners Oct. 16, 2017, 9:43 a.m.

A description of ECC without using advanced math

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Django - Redirect to previous url after CreateView Oct. 5, 2017, 10:44 p.m.

Here's an example using the get_form_kwargs method to make sure your button parameter is pushed to the form's initial dict on GET. The form_valid method extension makes sure the success_url property is overloaded when available in POST data. This way you can still define a default using the success_url property in an ordinary fashion.

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Group Policy: Inside ADM and ADMX Templates for Group Policy Sept. 27, 2017, 4:33 p.m.

The Administrative Templates node appears on both the User and Computer sides, but where do all these magical settings within Administrative Templates come from That's where ADM files come into play.

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How to Deploy Local Administrator Password Solution with AWS Microsoft AD Sept. 27, 2017, 2:39 p.m.

In an on-premises AD environment, you would update the schema by running the Update-AdmPwdADSchema Windows PowerShell cmdlet with schema administrator credentials. Because AWS Microsoft AD is a managed service, I do not have permissions to update the schema directly. Instead, I will update the AD schema from the Directory Service console by importing an LDIF file.

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From AdmPwd to LAPS and now LAPS.E Sept. 27, 2017, 2:30 p.m.

Overview of Local Administrator Password Solution (AdmPwd / LAPS / LAPS.E), and the differences between the various versions.

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Active Directory FSMO roles in Windows Sept. 26, 2017, 1:53 p.m.

Because Active Directory is a multi-master database, changes can be processed at any given domain controller (DC) in the enterprise regardless of whether the DC is connected or disconnected from the network.

For certain types of changes, Windows incorporates methods to prevent conflicting updates by extending the single-master model found in earlier versions of Windows to include multiple roles. Because an Active Directory role is not bound to a single DC, it is referred to as a Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) role. Currently in Windows there are five FSMO roles:

  • Schema master
  • Domain naming master
  • RID master
  • PDC emulator
  • Infrastructure master.
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Get AD group membership recursively with PowerShell Sept. 26, 2017, 10:25 a.m.

The solution should retrieve not only direct group membership, but indirect (through group nesting) too. Although the question is plain and simple, the solution is very interesting from various perspectives.

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Handling Credentials with AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Sept. 22, 2017, 9:40 a.m.

The cmdlets provided in the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell provide three ways to express credential information. Some approaches are more secure than others.

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Advanced security auditing FAQ Sept. 19, 2017, 8:31 a.m.

If permissions are configured for an object, its security descriptor contains a DACL with security identifiers for the users and groups that are allowed or denied access. If auditing is configured for the object, its security descriptor also contains a SACL that controls how the security subsystem audits attempts to access the object. However, auditing is not completely configured unless a SACL has been configured for an object and a corresponding Object Access audit policy setting has been configured and applied.

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