By default, starting and stopping Windows services are tasks that can only be performed by administrators. There are cases where you want regular users to be able to start or stop services. This can be easily accomplished using the subinacl.exe command-line tool.
This is the subinacl.exe syntax of how you can allow a …

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When sharing Windows folders on the network, it is possible to hide the shared folder from the list of shares. This can be done by adding a $-sign to the end of a share name. It is important to mention that this does not really hide such shares from the network. If you ask a Windows machines for a list of its shares, …

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In the Drupal security advisory that was released on August 19th, 2015 Drupal’s security team announced that it solved an SQL injection vulnerability in the Drupal database API.
The security advisory contained the following description of the SQL injection vulnerability: A vulnerability was found in the SQL comment …

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\ ICACLS name /save aclfile [/T] [/C] [/L] [/Q] stores the DACLs for the files and folders that match the name into aclfile for later use with /restore. Note that SACLs, owner, or integrity labels are not saved. \ ICACLS directory [/substitute SidOld SidNew […]] /restore aclfile [/C] [/L] [/Q] applies the stored …

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This page lists the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool (slmgr.vbs) command line options.

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Splunk is a great tool to monitor and review many different kinds of log files. In some cases it can occur that you want to be alerted of specific types of events, but only for occurrences of the events that are not defined in an exceptions whitelist. For example: you may want to be alerted of all logons to your server …

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Many script languages have an import function that allows to import and execute code that is stored in another file. Microsoft’s vbscript however is lacking such functionality. This page shows how it can be accomplished to import and execute vbscript code that is stored in another file. Assume that you have the …

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This article explains how you can create a view block that contains all the children of a certain book page.

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Not everyone is vulnerable to the potential attack vector that researchers from INRIA, a French research institute, and Microsoft disclosed recently. In order to be vulnerable, the computer or server must support a class of deliberately weak export cipher suites. Support for these weak algorithms has remained in many …

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This article explains how to create a bootable USB stick with Linux that can be used to boot UEFI-systems.

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