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Creating Symbolic and Hard Links on Windows
What’s a Symlink/Hardlink? Ever notice how websites will often use shortened and friendly addresses for really long page Uris? It solves the usability problem while allowing administrators to keep very well structured folder heirarchies. ex: http://example/tvpromo => http://example/promos/?123458743512 Wouldn’t it be nice to do that same thing but with our file servers as well? You [...]
Paper: Communicating Across Boundaries (Windows Internals/Driver Model)
For an independent study project, I opted to investigate the boot sequence of Windows and how the driver model is implemented. My goal was to understand the security boundaries, create a kernel mode driver and pass messages back and forth from user space. I would recommend reading it either formatted for Word or formatted for PDF. [...]
Dumping a NSEC enabled DNS Zone with nsecdump
Source and Compiled Output Available One of the problems with protecting DNS is mitigating people sitting on typographical error names. For example if accounting.contoso.com is a known valid site, how do I prevent someone from spoofing acounting.contoso.com? How this problem was solved with NSEC was by having the DNS server report what the next alphabetical [...]
Win2k12: How to Use Active Directory Certificate Services
Installation Success! I was able to get Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to work and now it even makes sense. After reading many articles and posts I found this one on TechNet; which was very clear and easy to follow. Create Certificates After installed, launch mmc and add snap-ins for Certificate Templates (CT) and Certification [...]
Win2k12: Configure IIS8 for .NET 4.5 Web Sites
In versions prior to Windows 2012 the steps to getting a .net web application to work was: Add Windows Role IIS Include Feature .NET 3.5 or 4 Run c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -I However when you do this in 2012 the following error will be given: Microsoft (R) ASP.NET RegIIS version 4.0.30319.17929 Administration utility to install and uninstall [...]
Windows 2008 R2: How to Get Wireless Adapter to Work
I just did a fresh install of Windows 2008 R2. When the system booted up it had found my D-Link wireless adapter but wasnt able to connect to my home router. It turned out that since this is a server sku and not a client the wireless assemblies are not installed by default. To correct [...]
Win8/2012: How to Get Hyper-V Virtual Machines To Ping Each Other
I’d like to share my 3 day battle to get 2 virtual machines to ping one another in my Windows 8 RTM Hyper-V server. The information in this post would also apply to 2012 Server. First I created an External virtual switch through the management console and connected it to my physical network adapter. Fairly straight forward. [...]
FreeDos 1.1 Doesnt Work on Windows 2012 RTM
After a some playing around I got FreeDOS to install and boot inside of a Windows 2012 Hyper-V VM! Unfortunately; it appears that booting with JEMMEX or EMM386 does not work due to “System Memory found at e000-efff, region might be in use.” If you don’t mind running in XMGR XMS memory driver then the OS is [...]