WinSxS cleanup
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Category: windows
Deploying windows printserver printers to windows machines | installing drivers via powershell
Standard stuff: On Server install your printer and printer driver. Then run printmanagament.msc and do Deploy with Group Policy. Have an eye on the drivers section. Know the exact name of your driver, thats important for deploying drivers to local machines. Your brandnew Group Policy should consist of (i) computer >> policies >> windows settings […]
WSUS lists approved vmware system driver for your guest but it doesn’t get installed.
get the latest in-guest-install vmware-tools (zipped) exe from vmwares download page und run it inside the guest.
Windows Server 2022 Evaluation | Activation
Microsofts Windows Server 2022 Evaluation ISO is the basis your installaion was built on. Now you want to end the evaluation ad did buy a correct license. You did go to ACTIVATION, typed that ney key in and got that 0xc004f050? Thats because your key was (ie) issued for Windows Server 2022 Standard and NOT […]
Follina ~ MSDT mitigation via gpo
Policy path: System\Troubleshooting and Diagnostics\Scripted Diagnostics Allow user to access and run troubleshooting wizards System\Problembehandlung und Diagnose\Microsoft Support-Diagnosetool Benutzern den Zugriff auf die empfohlene Problembehandlung für bekannt Probleme erlauben Scope: Machine KUDOS: https://www.pwndefend.com/2022/05/30/office-microsoft-support-diagnostic-tool-msdt-vulnerability-follina/
Windows | strange DNS resolve problem
Situation: Your machine lives in a corporate environment and uses your corporates own DNS resolver who’s located in your own LAN/IPsubnet. You didn’t define a default gateway in your IPv4 settings for security reasons. Resolving names via nslookup works fine, but windows himself (i.e ping) and third party software (like datev) run into resolve problems […]
Windows 10 | Uninstall progs from registry
Delete them: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{KEY2KEY2KEY2} HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\KEYKEYKEY HKCR\Installer\Products\KEYKEYKEY HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SOMETHING HKLM\SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications\SOMETHING HKLM\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\SOMETHINGifITdidHANDLEmail HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\RegisteredApplications\SOMETHING HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Clients\Mail\SOMETHINGifITwasAmailCLIENT HKU\S-1-5-18\Software\Clients\Mail\SOMETHINGifITwasAmailCLIENT
Windows | Set default application associations
Export on a proper machine and edit: Then do the GPO thing: Open your Group Policy editor and go to the Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\File Explorer\Set a default associations configuration file setting.
WSUS OPTIONS | Feature packs
disable this. Feature Packs: Specifies new product functionality that is first distributed outside of a product release and that’s typically included in the next full product release.
Thunderbird | GPO like handling
Thunderbird is checking against C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\policies.json at start. Some guys collected this for the latest version: https://fossies.org/linux/thunderbird/comm/mail/components/enterprisepolicies/schemas/policies-schema.json Thank you very much! Maybe this stuff is triggerable through the registry.
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