Tag: Windows

PowerShell Book in Spanish

Well, in case anyone remains unaware… Did you know that there is an excellent PowerShell technical book in Spanish?? If you have Windows machines in your work environment… You have no choice but to get to know this Swiss Army knife. And for me the best way to learn is with this type of technical books.

Logon auditing of Active Directory users with Elasticsearch and Grafana

Something very common that we are usually asked for is the possibility of knowing the logons and other interesting information that a user can generate. In this post we will see how to visualize data as interesting as: When have they logged in, When they closed the session, Incorrect login attempts, When a computer has been locked, or unlocked, or when the screensaver has tripped, or it has been deactivated…

Enabling two-factor authentication with SMS2 (free) and NetScaler Gateway

In this post we are going to see something fabulous, let's see how to enable 2FA or two-factor authentication in NetScaler Gateway, forcing users to use an additional Token for corporate access to the organization. We will use SMS2 which is a free tool, which through RADIUS will validate the user tokens, we'll use software tokens using the Google Authenticator app on mobile, A blast!

Collecting Windows metrics in Elasticsearch with Metricbeat and visualizing with Grafana

In this post, we'll look at another of Elasticsearch's wonderful components, within the Beats packages we will also find a utility that will help us to process and collect metrics from our Windows or Linux computers, known as Metricbeat. We will see how to export these metrics to Logstash to process them and store them in Elasticsearch to later visualize them with Kibana or Grafana!

Redirecting Event Viewer events from Windows computers to Elasticsearch with Winlogbeat and viewing with Grafana

GOOD, once we have already set up our platform with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, In this first post, we are going to analyze the events of the Event Viewer of our Windows computers using Winlogbeat! We'll install the small agent and send the events we decide to Logstash to process and store in Elasticsearch, and then we will visualize them with Grafana!

Migrating the DHCP service from Windows 2003 to Windows 2016

Good! Nothing, I wanted to share with you a little fight I had in a summer project, among several things he had to migrate a Windows DHCP server 2003 to Windows 2016 Server, I share with you the steps I followed to migrate it to the new server in less than a crows! Think of each DHCP environment, with each rank, with all the exclusions, Customizations… How to avoid resetting it!