Security enhancements on the roadmap and in preview in Microsoft Windows Server 2025: - Enhanced encryption standards and LDAP encryption enabled-by-default - Improved security for default machine account passwords - SMB signing and encryption auditing Several features are introduced to Microsoft LAPS that bring the following improvements: - New automatic account management feature - New image rollback detection feature - New passphrase feature To see what's new in Windows Server 2025, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gmGfaqt9
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Windows Server 2025 is in preview.. but a feature that has been on my wish list since the early 2000s finally makes an appearance, this would have definitely improved my life as a young admin! Here’s hoping this makes its way to Windows 11. I wonder how many times in my career I have packaged/deployed and had major security discussions about compression utilities 😊or asked a customer which utilities they have to recieve encrypted compressed documents 🤔💭🗂️ 📣Native support for compression to Zip, 7z and Tar 🙌🏼🎉 Other highlights ✅ LDAP security improvements ✅ Kerberos security improvements ✅ deprication of RC4 (Kerberos) ✅ SMB improvements ✅ LAPS ✅ Windows Containers ✅ ARC #windowsserver #2025 #compression #preview #azure #improvements
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New image rollback detection feature in Windows Server 2025. This one is good. Windows LAPS now detects when an image rollback occurs. If a rollback does happen, the password stored in AD may no longer match the password stored locally on the device. Rollbacks can result in a "torn state" where the IT admin is unable to sign into the device using the persisted Windows LAPS password. To address this issue, a new feature was added that includes an AD attribute called “msLAPS-CurrentPasswordVersion”. This attribute contains a random GUID written by Windows LAPS every time a new password is persisted in AD and saved locally. During every processing cycle, the GUID stored in “msLAPS-CurrentPasswordVersion” is queried and compared to the locally persisted copy. If they're different, the password is immediately rotated. Details: https://lnkd.in/g5P6ENGz
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To bring up a Windows Server that crashed due to a CrowdStrike agent issue by putting the agent in idle, follow these steps: 1. **Boot into Safe Mode:** - Restart the server. - Press `F8` or `Shift + F8` before Windows starts to load to enter the Advanced Boot Options menu. - Select `Safe Mode` and press `Enter`. 2. **Disable the CrowdStrike Agent:** - Once in Safe Mode, open a Command Prompt with administrative privileges. - Run the following command to disable the CrowdStrike service: sc config csagent start= disabled 3. **Reboot the Server:** - Restart the server normally. 4. **Set the CrowdStrike Agent to Idle:** - After the server boots up, open a Command Prompt with administrative privileges again. - Run the following command to set the CrowdStrike agent to idle mode: sc config csagent start= demand 5. **Re-enable the CrowdStrike Agent (if needed):** - If you need to re-enable the CrowdStrike agent later, you can run: sc config csagent start= auto 6. **Restart the Server:** - Restart the server again to apply the changes. ⚠️shuld be tested before applying #Microsoft_Crowdstrike_Outage #crowdstrike
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WINDOWS SERVER AUG2024 PATCH ISSUES - KB5041578 Windows 2019 causing disk i/o issues with massive writes to c:\windows\catroot2\edb.log. In the beginning, I noticed SAN i/o issues, so it took a few hours to identify the root-cause why VMs were sending massive writes to storage. Solution 1: Remove KBKB5041578 Solution 2: Reset the CatRoot2 folder under C:\windows\system32\catroot2 + leave update on machine During the rollback process of KBKB5041578, I saw situations, where it wasn’t enough to remove the KB, but we also had to reset the CATROOT2 database/files under C:\windows\system32\catroot2 If you have enough resources to run Powershell session, then run: Set-service CryptSvc -StartupType Disabled Stop-service Wuauserv -Force Stop-service cryptsvc -Force Stop-service bits -Force Remove-Item -Path C:\windows\SoftwareDistribution -Recurse -Force Remove-Item -Path C:\windows\system32\catroot2 -Recurse -Force Set-service CryptSvc -StartupType Automatic Start-service Wuauserv Start-service cryptsvc Start-service bits #windows #windowsserver #windowsserver2019 #KB5041578 #azure #azurecloud _______ 🔰 If you like my posts please follow me Andrei Pintica hit the 🔔 on my profile to get a notification for all my new posts
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If you are seeing high LSASS usage...in this article there are steps to validate and resolve it.
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CVE-2024-4017 and CVE-2024-4018 on BeyondTrust (19-04-2024) Preface: CyberArk most likely to be known as a leader in PAM. BeyondTrust more popular among small and medium-sized enterprises. Background: U-Series is a self-contained physical or virtual appliance that contains the operating system, the database, the BeyondTrust BeyondInsight platform, and the BeyondTrust Password Safe solution. For a BeyondInsight deployment with a local SQL Server instance, the minimum requirement is 32GB. It is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard operating system. The license included with the U-Series v20 and U-Series v20 SQL Free for Microsoft Windows Server 2022 covers up to 16 cores on the physical virtualization (host) server. Vulnerability details: CVE-2024-4018: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit (local appliance api modules) allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3. Please refer to the link for details - https://lnkd.in/gy9BcqE8 CVE-2024-4017: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit (filesystem modules) allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3. Please refer to the link for details - https://lnkd.in/gX4AmSCH
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[Blog] Create a new Recovery Partition in Windows If your Microsoft Windows installation doesn't have the Recovery Partition configured. you can create a new Recovery Partition by following a specific procedure. When Windows is deployed, the installation wizard automatically creates a Recovery Partition placed as last partition on the OS disk. 👉 <Continue Reading...> https://bityl.co/P0rT #windows #recovery #partition
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