Powershell Universal

Universal is a cross-platform for building cross-platform tools, including Web APIs, with Powershell.

https://docs.powershelluniversal.com/

Folder Redirection with offline files

This will probably be the only link I post to a Microsoft document.  Their docs are almost always incomplete and useless.  This one worked for me though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/folder-redirection/deploy-folder-redirection

One change though.  In Step 2 they instruct Administrators -- Full Control -- This Folder only,  for permissions.

But if you do that, you cannot set the file permissions they instruct for the subdirectory in Step 3, which is Administrators -- Full Control -- This folder, subfolders, and files.

That is because of inheritance.  I just changed the permissions in Step 2 to Administrators -- Full Control -- This folder, subfolders, and files, and everything else worked.

Thought-terminating cliché

Stop reasonable discourse and dismiss dissent in its tracks with the Thought-terminating cliché.

 

MultiOTP, andOTP, TOTP, FreeOTP, and related

How TOTP (Time-based One-time Passwords) work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-Time_Password

and

Android TOTP password authentication app for 2FA on your Android device

https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP

and

Two-factor authentication for Remote Desktop Web Gateway

https://roman.gallauner.at/?p=886

and

MultiOTP

https://download.multiotp.net/credential-provider/

https://github.com/multiOTP

and

FreeOTP

https://freeotp.github.io/

 

Awesome Self-Hosted

Awesome-Selfhosted is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Non-Free software is listed on the Non-Free page.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Free Active Directory (AD) security and vulnerability evaluation

PingCastle provides detailed and useful auditing of your AD environment, and it is free.

https://www.pingcastle.com

RCloud

Open source backup software can back up to 40+ different cloud storage services.

https://rclone.org/

Secure your RDP servers with MultiDeskEnforcer or Guacamole

MultiDeskEnforcer Adds the requirement of a shared key in addition to the usual username/password to establish an RDP connection.

http://www.syvik.com/multidesk/enforcer.en.html

Open source Guacamole is a much more comprehensive solution which can force 2FA or TOTP in addition to username/password.  It also allows clients to connect using only a browser!

https://guacamole.apache.org/

Scoop, a command line installer for Windows

Easily install all your cmd line utilities in user mode in Windows.  Watch the demo video!

https://scoop.sh/

Group Policy admin templates for more apps

Do this to use GPO to set all kinds of Outlook or Chrome settings, for example.  Once the templates are installed you will have granular control over many more settings.

The catalog

How to add the admx files to a DC.

Note: the control ID of the 'Reply All' button in outlook is 355.

This guy wrote a VBA script to lookup control IDs.  Or Google it.

TrayStatus - See if NumLock, Caps Lock, etc. are on/off

Binary Fortress software, makers of the excellent file search utility FileSeek, have a handy app called TrayStatus, which shows via the taskbar when Caps Lock or Num Lock are on/off.  I found this useful with my Logitech wireless keyboard that doesn't have a 'Num Lock' indicator light.  TrayStatus comes in free and paid versions.