sysadmin

Group Policy Administrative Templates

March 19, 2019 smarc

Group Policy Administrative Templates Catalog

Source: Group Policy Administrative Templates

sysadmin

Mozilla GPO – About

March 19, 2019 smarc

Group policy support for Mozilla

Primery project webpage https://mozillagpo.sourceforge.io/

TARGETS

The aim of the project is to provide flexible centralized management of Mozilla software in enterprise environment.

There are other projects with the same goals, but they are either no longer supported (GPO For Firefox last updated in 2014 and incompatible with Firefox Quantum), or are Windows login scripts that modify the user profile (for example FirefoxADM or Firefox ADMX). Both options are unacceptable in the enterprise environment:

Time goes and sooner or later it will be necessary to update the browser.
Using login scripts is not safe: in modern operating systems logon scripts work asynchronously and user can already open application at the time of their launch.

This project provide autoconfig module that starts with apllication and apply preferences from group policy. Futher read about autoconfig.

FEATURES

This module works in Firefox, Thunderbird and Pale Moon(use same settings as Firefox).
Module logs all actions in application console.
Module refresh preferences from policy by timer hourly.
There [ADMX Group Policy template] for Firefox and Thunderbird (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mozillagpo/files/PolicyTemplate/PolicyTemplate.zip/download) provided with module. You can manage any preference with it.
Module can set default values for preferences. This values works if not redefined by user.
Module can set locked values for preferences. This values always works.
Module can install trusted CA certificates to user profile (up to 10).
Module can remove trusted CA certificates from user profile (up to 10).
Module can substitute in preference values some environment variables.
Well described troubleshooting algorithm.
Compatible with Mozilla Quantum

Source: Mozilla GPO – About

sysadmin, Win10, Windows

How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording? – Stack Overflow

March 19, 2019 smarc

Source: How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording? – Stack Overflow

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https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9n97zckpd60q

March 19, 2019 smarc

https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9n97zckpd60q

PowerShell, sysadmin, Win10, Windows

How to Detect Who Created a Scheduled Task on Windows Server

March 19, 2019 smarc

This how-to shows two ways of detecting who created a new scheduled task on your windows server.

Source: How to Detect Who Created a Scheduled Task on Windows Server

Privacy, surveillance, sysadmin, Win10, Windows

How to: Turn Off Telemetry in Windows 7, 8, and Windows 10

March 19, 2019 smarc

If you’d rather not participate in helping improve the Windows operating system, you can turn of Telemetry services completely.

Source: How to: Turn Off Telemetry in Windows 7, 8, and Windows 10

sysadmin, Win10, Windows

Monitoring Windows advanced Firewall Rule changes

March 19, 2019 smarc

Starting with Windows Vista and Windows 2008, if you want to see who and when changes Windows Firewall with Advanced Security rules and other settings you must enable either the “Policy Changes” auditing category or rather the “Filtering Platform Policy Change” and “Other Policy Change Events” auditing subcategories. Afte you have enabled this auditing, system will log success and failure audits into the Security event log whenever any firewall setting changes.

you can enable the auditing with Group Policy, Local Security Policy or from command line:

auditpol /set /subcategory:”Filtering Platform Policy Change” /success:enable /failure:enable
auditpol /set /subcategory:”Other Policy Change Events” /success:enable /failure:enable

sysadmin, Win10, Windows

How to Track Firewall Activity with the Windows Firewall Log

March 18, 2019 smarc

In the process of filtering Internet traffic, all firewalls have some type of logging feature that documents how the firewall handled various types of traffic. These logs can provide valuable information like source and destination IP addresses, port numbers, and protocols. You can also use the Windows Firewall log file to monitor TCP and UDP connections and packets that are blocked by the firewall.