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VMware Powercli: Check and enable CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol

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ESXi has the ability to respond to CDP requests.
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VMware Powercli: Get CDP infos for the Hosts Networkadapter

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if CDP is enabled the networkswitches gives some informations to the ESXi Hosts physical network adapters.

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Powershell: Encrypt and decrypt strings with the host key

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each Windows machine has it’s own host key. This can be used to encrypt data which are only decrypted by this computer.

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Windows: Enable SCHANNEL verbose logging to determine cipher suite

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to determine which CIPHER Suite a TLS connection uses you can enable SCHANNEL logging.
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Powershell: UDP Client and Server

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these UDP client and server and simply used for testing if a specific UDP port is open

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