Rights and privileges, permissions are access details given by users or network administrators that define access rights to files on a network.
Sometimes it is necessary to run Applications as an Administrator otherwise the functionality on the Program just does not work. This was the case with one of our Financial systems which once a week I had to be next to Read More …
Let’s kick this off by understanding what is a Retention Policy.A Retention Policy is an organization’s established protocol for retaining information for Operational and Regulatory Compliance. In Short, it means how long is the Organization allowed to keep the data for Operational needs. Read More …
On IIS browse to Sites, Right Click and choose Add Website… You will be presented with a similar screen as below. I am doing this specifically to show the setup of ITOP but works exactly the same for other similar Read More …
In a previous post, I wrote about How to setup Bitlocker without TPM. Now let’s just suppose you work in an environment where you have multiple IT People managing Multiple Laptops. If even one person does not save the Recovery Read More …
One of the big things I have been working on is working towards getting more PoPI Complaint. Although there is not a specific set way of doing this, the main thing I read up, and spoke to different more Knowlagable Read More …
As I am installing ITOP and WordPress I ran into a problem where the authentication did not work. Looking into the issue it seemed the user being created on MySQL needs to be with Authentication Type: Standard. Well, that seems Read More …
I recently had some issues with authentication on Windows Apps. This especially happens when a user’s password changes. Then you have to clean the Credential Manager and WOW can Microsoft pile up a list.So I had to figure out how Read More …
When working in IT you sometimes have to get creative to get the necessary results. For preventing users to Save to the Desktop there are two ways of doing it. The Manual way or the Automated way. Using Group Policies Read More …
Renaming well-known accounts in Windows makes it more difficult for unauthorized access to the Computer Systems and its Resources. Although Microsoft has made strides to protect the System accounts as IT Administrator’s we can go a little Extra. With the Read More …
In every environment, there will always be that one application that requires privileged access. Sofware that uses a local database like SQLite is some of the biggest culprits. Account Software is the other. So how do we grant access to Read More …