IT Pro Tuesday #316
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
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The latest Security Swarm Podcast: CrowdStrike Chaos, VMware ESXi Vulnerability & More,” covers the aftermath of the CrowdStrike incident, Microsoft’s proposed enhancements to improve the security of their ecosystem, as well as the discovery of a vulnerability in AMD processors that could allow persistent malware.
We’re looking for favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.
Now on to this week’s list!
A Free Tool
Chezmoi is a simple, secure way to manage your dotfiles across multiple different machines. Features include templates, password manager support, importing files from archives, full file encryption, and running scripts. Kindly suggested by adamshand.
ANother free tool
CleanupMonster is a script for easily removing and organizing the objects in your AD according to your desired criteria. Author MadBoyEvo explains, “[it’s] a PowerShell module that helps cleaning stale/dead computer objects in Active Directory. Dead servers, clusters, workstations -> all of it.”
A tip
A favorite mailbox-permission command, compliments of burner70:
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity user@domain.com -User me@domain.com -AccessRights FullAccess -AutoMapping:$false < when I want full permission of a user’s mailbox to work with their mailbox in webmail, but don’t want it to appear in my Outlook Desktop App.
training resource
Regex Crossword offers a gamified environment for working with regular expressions that’s intended to help you get confident with all those easily forgotten rules. johnhollowell recommends it as “a fun way to drill regex into your brain.”
A podcast
NosillaCast is a weekly technology discussion with interviews and information on freeware, shareware, open source tools, and more. Hosted by engineer Allison Sheridan, who retired from aerospace to focus on podcasting full-time. stimj explains, “[it’s a] blend of consumer and enterprise focus, but does a good job when they cover enterprise in the “Security Bits” segment, and it does have chapters so you can skip right to it – but be prepared for a heavy pro-Apple bias).”
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
IP Parrot is an online tool that displays the IP address of the machine, along with basic browser/device and location information. Hungry_Essay_6699 says, “This is the fastest way I have found to find the public IP of a remote computer if you have the means to connect with command prompt, PowerShell or ssh, and it’s easy to memorize.”
Debuggex is a regex visualizer and debugger plus Javascript engine and more. This realtime tool makes everything as visual as possible, with built-in testing to help you create robust expressions even if you aren’t 100% confident with regex. paceyuk appreciates that it “shows you what’s actually going on under the hood in a diagram.”
