Importing/Exporting Local Policies from/to GPO Directives with 'LocalGPO'

The other day we installed Microsoft Security Compliance Manager, today we see that within its installation we have a command-line utility called LocalGPO. It will allow us to export the local policies of a computer to a GPO policy backup to later use them in the Active Directory or import from a GPO backup (Active Directory) to the home team, Useful for computers that can't belong to a domain, teams in DMZ…

What's New in Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Session Pre-launch (Pre-start) & Session Linger (Persistent session)

Dos de las novedades de Citrix XenApp 6.5 es el uso Session Pre-launch o Preinicio que permite iniciar una sesión ICA a nuestros usuarios de forma automática con el fin de evitar ese pequeño lapso de tiempo cuando abren la primera app, la otra novedad es la configuración de Session Linger o Sesión Persistente, que permitirá configurar un tiempo para el cierre de la sesión ICA cuando el usuario cierra su última app evitando así el tener que esperar de nuevo cuando vuelva a abrir otra app.

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager – Hardening our servers

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2 is a repository of Microsoft security templates that we can apply to our servers or PCs on our network providing greater security, since these templates are predefined depending on the OS. and the services run by the target machine. The good thing is that we will be able to keep the templates always 'up to date’ through updates that we can download from the console. We will be able to import GPOs, More Baselines… we will be able to edit/duplicate them and to apply them to our environment we will export them.

VMware Project: Onyx

Onyx is an app (beta) that will allow us to obtain PowerCLI code to be able to use it later; is presented as a proxy between the VMware vSphere Client and the vCenter Server, monitors traffic passing between the two and converts it into PowerShell code, being able only with the movement of the mouse, generate our own scripts with the intention of automating tasks or to know a function/command in a simple way…