Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows: GPO Logon/logoff scripts

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User GPO logon/logoff script definitions are stored in an extra place. They are not part of C:\windows\System32\grouppolicy\user\registry.pol nor they can be exported my secedit.
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Powershell: Some basics accessing the BCDstore by WIM

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here are some starters for accessing the bcd store from powershell by using WMI.

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winget: Basic usage

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here are some winget basics
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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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