SMB and Null Sessions: Why Your Pen Test is Probably Wrong

Hi everyone, James Kehr here with a guest post. One of the SMB cases we get regularly at Microsoft Support is, “my pen test says you allow Null sessions!” Followed by a string of CVE numbers; like, CVE-1999-0519 and CVE-1999-0520. Which can sometimes l… Continue reading SMB and Null Sessions: Why Your Pen Test is Probably Wrong

Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure portal for Log Analytics – 02/21 – Resolved

Final Update: Friday, 21 February 2020 17:12 UTCWe’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 02/21, 16:33 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 02/21, 14:52 UTC and that during the 1 Hours & 41 minutes&nbs… Continue reading Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure portal for Log Analytics – 02/21 – Resolved

Congratulations to our 2020 Imagine Cup Asia Regional Final winners!

The 2020 Imagine Cup Asia Regional Final culminated with the selection of the first two teams to win spots in this year’s World Championship. Congratulations to Syrinx (previously NUTONE) from Japan and Hollo from Hong Kong SAR for their impactful solu… Continue reading Congratulations to our 2020 Imagine Cup Asia Regional Final winners!

Request File Can’t be Located during CA Certificate Renewal

First published on TECHNET on May 29, 2012
During my work with a customer renewing their Issuing CA’s certificate based on the steps documented in this article , I discovered that the Request file generated couldn’t be located in the default locat… Continue reading Request File Can’t be Located during CA Certificate Renewal

Whitepaper “HSPD-12 Logical Access Authentication and Active Directory Domains”

First published on TECHNET on Feb 10, 2010
This document explains the interdependencies between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) related to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) smart ca… Continue reading Whitepaper “HSPD-12 Logical Access Authentication and Active Directory Domains”