Monthly Archives: December 2011

2011, What a wonderful year

Last year was a truly amazing year for me. Although there was no Tech·Ed Europe event this year, and I didn’t attend Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) of any of The Expert Conferences (TECs), I did find a couple of other parties to crash. I still fondly remember the dinner with Marcus, Marien and Jeremy […]

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Statistics on Active Directory-related Security Bulletins

It’s not very uncommon for Microsoft to issue a patch for a problem in Active Directory technologies (including Active Directory Domain Services, Lightweight Directory Services, Certificate Services, Rights Management Services, Federation Services and Group Policy). In this blog post, let’s look at some statistics

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MS11-095 Vulnerability in Active Directory could allow Remote Code Execution (Important)

On Tuesday November 13, 2011 Microsoft, in its monthly Patch Tuesday, released a Security Bulleting addressing an issue with Active Directory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first need to acquire credentials to log on to an Active Directory domain. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability […]

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Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles for November 2011

While days are getting shorter in my part of the world, Microsoft relentlessly continues to address issues in Active Directory. Between November 1, 2011 and November 30, 2011 Microsoft introduced one Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase article with information, seven Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles with hotfixes, one KnowledgeBase article linked to a Active Directory-related Security Bulletin and […]

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