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A local elevation of privilege vulnerability (CVE-2021-41379) in the Windows Installer that Microsoft supposedly fixed on November 2021 Patch Tuesday is, according to its discoverer, still exploitable. What’s more, it is already being leveraged b… Continue reading After failed fix, researcher releases exploit for Windows EoP flaw (CVE-2021-41379)
The Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference (HIP) is the premier educational forum for IT pros tasked with managing identity and securing hybrid cloud environments. As the global health pandemic and move to digitalization change the way enterprises work, the HIP Conference helps IT pros to learn and implement technology that mitigates new business risks. The […] Continue reading Semperis Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2021
Microsoft has issued an out-of-band emergency update fix to patch an authentication issue that was caused by the November 9th cumulative update for Windows Server. The bug affects Windows Server 2008 SP2 through to Windows Server 2019. The November 9th Patch Tuesday cumulative update (CU) for Windows Server causes a problem that can cause authentication […] Continue reading Microsoft Issues Emergency Update Fix for Windows Server SSO Authentication Bug
As of this past November 9th 2021, AWS now offers the ability to switch between AWS provided licenses and bring your own licenses (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server instances using the AWS License Manager. Changing the license type associated with your instances will retain the application, instance, data and configuration for that instance. […] Continue reading AWS Announces the Ability to Switch Windows Server and SQL Server License Types
Patch Tuesday in November 2021 sees Microsoft release patches to address 55 CVEs, including fixes for 6 zero-day bugs. There are updates for products including Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics, Hyper-V, and Azure Real Time Operating System (RTOS), which is ThreadX RTOS, an embedded real-time operating system that Microsoft purchased […] Continue reading Patch Tuesday November 2021 – Microsoft Patches Windows RDP Zero-Day and Exchange RCE
Ignite Hero The second installment of Microsoft Ignite November 2021 kicks off today, November 2nd, at 4.15 CET with the opening keynote by Satya Nadella. The conference runs through to November 4th. Many of the sessions can be watched on-demand after the event but not all of them. In this article, I’m going to cut […] Continue reading Microsoft Ignite – Highlights for IT Pros
Windows 11 is now generally available, there are already fixes for a long list of bugs and performance issues with AMD processors, and Android apps come to users in the Windows 11 Beta Channel. Plus, there’s much more of what’s new with Windows in October 2021, so let’s get started! Windows 11 is now generally […] Continue reading What’s New with Windows – October 2021 Edition
The error I get from pkcs11-tool.exe is "No slots."
My server has a hardware security module (Nitrokey HSM 2) that becomes inaccessible once I connect to my server via Windows Remote Desktop.
Note: this is NOT for logging in with… Continue reading How do I get my server HSM working while connected via RDP? (Win 2019)
This month’s Patch Tuesday for includes a cumulative update (CU) for Windows 11, which was made generally available October 4th. In total Microsoft released patches addressing 71 CVEs in Windows, Edge, Exchange Server, .NET Core, SharePoint Server, and many other products. Two of the CVEs patched this month are rated Critical, and 68 Important. And […] Continue reading Patch Tuesday October 2021 – Microsoft Fixes Windows Kernel Zero-Day and Critical Bug in Exchange Server
We have a server running on Windows Server 2012 R2 and it hosts a Hyper-v virtual machine (configuration: Windows 10, version 20H2, min 16GB & max 32GB RAM with 4 processor cores) . We notice in the event logs of the server: Event-id 3… Continue reading Disk Event-ID 32 in server with Hyper-V virtual machine [migrated]