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Graylog | Finding failed login attempts that lock out AD Users

I’ve been using the free trial of Netwrix to find failed logins and sadly it’s way out of our budget for K-12 so I’ve been searching for another solution and can help the team. We’ve been having an uptick in AD accounts getting locked due to numerous login failed attempts. 99% of the time it’s

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How to Setup and Deploy LAPS | Local Administrator Password Solution

LAPS provides a way to automatically rotate the local Administrator password on domain joined machines every X amount of days to a random password. I’ll be installing it on one of my domain controllers. Download LAPS and Install. Download LAPS and be sure to install all the management tools also. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 Extend the AD Schema

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PowerShell | Find Users matching partial group name by employeeType

I needed a way to find out if any of our staff employeeType was part of incorrect distribution lists. Example: Classified staff shouldn’t be part of any distribution lists that contains “Licensed”. Here is the output: If you wanted to export this to a csv just add on “| Export-Csv C:\” to the end so

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LFTP Between Servers

First, what is LFTP? Basically its a command-line based FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client that is distrubted as GNU General Public License. You’re not just limited to FTP either. LFTP supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, FISH, and SFTP. The biggest advantage simultaneously transferring multiple files between servers in addition to mirroring entire directory trees. There

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