Written by Mark Lewis2020-03-23

Rebuilding the home lab – Part 5

Further progression and ramblings on the rebuild of the home lab. It’s now in a state where it’s working as I would expect it to be.

Written by Mark Lewis2020-03-06

Graylog central logging

I have heard a lot of good things about Graylog for central logging within an AD environment. Decided to deploy and see what’s what. The dashboards/alerts are still to come but the core is there.

Written by Mark Lewis2020-02-29

Rebuilding the home lab – Part 4

Further progress on the home lab rebuild. It’s getting there. Still a little way to go though.

Written by Mark Lewis2020-02-26

Fine Grained Password Policies

Fine Grained Password Policies are invaluable for creating multiple password policies that you can apply to groups of users, for example service accounts.

Written by Mark Lewis2020-02-25

Rebuilding the home lab – Part 3

Day 5 Arrgghhh things not going so well at the moment. The second ESXi host won’t boot and the second Hyper-V host isn’t booting. Both of them failing POST and coming up with a red light on the front. It looks like at least one of them is a faulty Mezzanine card. It looks like […]

Written by Mark Lewis2020-02-20

Brand new forest, PingCastle

PingCastle is an audit tool that helps you build a prioritised list of issues that need addressing in Active Directory. See how I’ve used it in a ‘box fresh’ domain.

Written by Mark Lewis2020-02-19