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Group Policy changes included in the Windows Management Framework 3.0

While creating a new Group Policy object to enable WinRM (Windows Remote Management) on clients, I noticed some Group Policy changes that are introduc...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, February 26, 2013

No MBSA for Windows 8 planned

Many companies and individuals use the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer ([MBSA](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/security/cc184924.aspx)) to ass...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, November 8, 2012

How the Windows Defender Offline Beta Tool works

In addition to the [Microsoft Security Essentials](http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials) software and the [Microsof...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 2, 2012

A Security Baseline Resource for Windows 7–Internet Explorer and Windows 7 Firewall

If you are looking for some ideas how to secure your Windows 7 clients, have a look at the [USGCB](http://usgcb.nist.gov/) (The United States Governme...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 31, 2011

A quick look at the Windows PowerShell Module for Intel vPro

In a previous post [Using Intel AMT Power Management @ Home](https://www.verboon.info/index.php/2009/07/using-intel-amt-power-management-home/) I wrot...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, September 4, 2010

Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP

Yesterday I received a pre-release copy of Russel Smith’s book called [Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP](http://www.packtpub.com/l...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, July 27, 2010