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Windows: Disable DES and Triple DES (3DES)

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a measure to protect your Windows System against Sweet32 attacks is to disable the DES and Triple DES.

To do this, add 2 Registry Keys to the SCHANNEL Section of the registry.
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Powershell: Searching in arrays

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this is a really often requiered task in powershell. Here are some examples.
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Windows: Explorer.exe Server execution failed

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a customer had the problem that he couldn’t start the explorer. The explorer runs in an timeout and pops up an Errormessage: Server execution failed
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Windows: Cancel Bits transfers from other user

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if you try to remove bits transfers initialted from SYSTEM or from other users you get an Access Denied (Unable to cancel job – 0x80070005) error.
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Windows: Cleanup Permissions from deleted Active Directory Objects

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in domain environments it sometimes happens that user or groups would be deleted but is still authorized on many object, i.e. filesystems, shares etc..

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