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2011-12-27 Updated

2010-07-14 Initial Post

Also see my other post, http://sysadmin-e.com/bcd1.

I finally got around to messing with BitLocker again and learned a few more things about it. I have a Gateway S-7410M laptop which I thought did not have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip. I have the latest BIOS update, but in the BIOS setup, the option to turn on TPM was grayed out and there was nothing in the documentation that mentioned how to enable it, and there was no TPM management software for download. (more…)

2011-10-01 Reformatted for clarity

2009-01-13 Initial post

BACKGROUND

By default, Kerberos will encrypt the LDAP authentication only, but not the actual LDAP traffic. You can enable LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) to encrypt the entire LDAP session in Windows AD. (more…)

2010-02-28 Initial Post

I looked into this briefly, not too long ago, and didn't find anything simple for password protecting an entire WordPress blog. The other day I was looking around cPanel and noticed an option for password protection. The option is not specific to WordPress but for any folder in your account. It allows you to password protect any of your site's folders, including the folder that hosts your WordPress site. So the end result is that you can password protect your WordPress blog. Here's how to do that: (more…)

2009-09-22 Initial Post

Tested with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows XP Professional SP3.

An account that has Read permission to a share, but no permissions at all to the shared folder itself, can still traverse the shared folder to get to a subfolder for which it does have permission to. (more…)

2008-12-24 Initial Post

The other month I was wondering if HTTP SSL traffic could be spoofed by some type of man-in-the-middle scenario and just the other day I read an article (more…)