Month: March 2016

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March 21, 2016

Quick Tips: Share Permissions do more than you think.

While rebuilding a piece of my lab for file server and DFS services, I had an odd set of symptoms. I had a user in a security group that was not set to be able to change permissions, and no ability to take ownership, in the NTFS permissions. Yet they were able to add permissions to give others elevated access, or even elevate their own […]

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March 18, 2016

Ransomware is the future.

When I first started fighting ransomware in late 2013, I had a premonition that this was something serious. While CryptoLocker was rather easily defeated in the enterprise and ultimately killed by killing the botnet, media outlets and tech sites ran with the story. It showed this small group making millions and millions of dollars. Guess what? More people started writing ransomware. Cut to now. Ransomware-as-a-service is […]

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March 2, 2016

Setting up secure Home Folders without touching AD.

In preparing for a new file server schema, I’ve been playing with home folders and quotas. I wanted to come up with a “home folder” solution that met a couple needs: Worked well with Windows 7 through 10 Did not involve the client support team having to set the home folder in each user’s AD profile Did not rely on folder redirection or roaming profiles Set-and-forget […]