Several times I’ve had a need to figure out which AD groups I’m part of compared to somebody else. Typically somebody whose access is broken. Most often than not, a new joiner. There are several ways an end user without any elevated privileges can find this information. To find yours in a directory environment, execute […]
This happened over a decade ago when I was a budding L1 engineer, monitoring network infrastructure of a bank. This post is recollection of a memory when my team-lead (a great mentor) at the time, put me through a challenging exercise to meet a seemingly simple customer requirement. Existing Topology We had this typical topology […]
Recently I had a need to capture packets on a VDI instance, however, the node had no sniffer software installed on it. I never knew there was a native tool available on Windows 10. drop and follow CLI @ here
This checks source IP and destination URL, based on it send it via proxy or allows it direct. Use case For users connected over RA-VPN, I don’t want them to ride the tunnel for bandwidth heavy internet based applications. E.g. youtube.com or something such as an e-learning, video streaming services. Solution for such a situation […]
This script presses F13 key every 5 minutes in loop. This may come handy to keep a remote system, that you’ve RDP’d into, from sleeping.
Synergy, an open source software application that allows you to control multiple PC’s through the TCP/IP LAN network. You can control two systems over your network with just one set of K&M connected to one of the machines. I have a laptop and a desktop which are kept apart, this works great. I don’t have […]
