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How to Monitor Network Traffic (Packet Capture/Network Trace) in Windows without installing any Tools

As a Windows Active Directory Administrator, we have to do network trace to monitor the network traffic of the Windows server for troubleshooting the issues, usually, third-party applications like Wireshark been used to capture and analyze, how can we collect the network trace using Windows built-in tools without Wireshark? There is an easy way to… Read More »

Microsoft August 2020 Patch issues and unanswered questions: No Netlogon events in Domain Controller logs after August 2020 Patches

August 2020 Patch (CVE-2020-1472) is fixing Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, we have to patch all the Domain Controllers to secure our environment from this Vulnerability and its two-part rollout stars on August 2020 and Feb 2021, we have many unanswered questions like, is the August 2020 patch will affect the non-secure clients? is there… Read More »

Comparing ADFS vs Passthrough authentication solutions: Which one is better suits your requirement

Recent days you might have heard passthrough authentication is a better solution compared to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and all companies are moving towards ADFS as it is less complex and easy to configure and maintain, is that Trus? Can I migrate to passthrough authentication? what are the difference and advantage over ADFS, is… Read More »

Nslookup for WINS?

Nslookup for WINS Entry? We all know using Nslookup tool we can check the DNS name resolution, easy to use while troubleshooting name resolution and DNS related issues, NSLookup tool also used to check the WINS entry, yes you can check the WINS entry using NBlookup tool to query against a WINS server If you… Read More »