Properly Stopping the Windows Firewall for Troubleshooting

August 5th, 2012 | Posted by Jason in Security | Windows - (0 Comments)

From time to time, I hear of or read about someone troubleshooting what they think may be a Windows Firewall related connectivity issue. To troubleshoot this, they stop the Windows Firewall service (either from services.msc , the command-line, or some other method). What this results in though is a total network lockdown of the system …
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Windows and Kerberos Authentication

June 26th, 2007 | Posted by Jason in Security | Windows - (0 Comments)

Here’s an oldie but goodie (IMHO). I was looking to review Kerberos concepts and remembered reading a great whitepaper from Microsoft on the subject — featuring none other than Bob and Alice. A quick search and voilà: Windows 2000 Kerberos Authentication. The concepts all still apply to Windows 2003 and 2008. The discussions are clear …
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