Hacking with Johnny and Google

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Have some spare time? want to learn how not to expose all your confidential information to the  Google crawler, well, take a swing by http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ here is a guy, that has devoted a lot of time into mapping how to utilize Google to search for all sorts of “interesting stuff”, stuff you were never supposed to see.  This is an eye opener for most, you really need to think before exposing anything to the Internet – be that webcams, alarms or just your dishwasher otherwise you may end up on a page like this.
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Forefront Client Security Deployment

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You may have heard about Microsoft’s antivirus solution (Forefront Client Security, the corporate version – there is also a home user version), well now there is an additional way of deploying it (see button link) – untested, but sounds like piece of pie 🙂

Microsoft’s Live Care (home user version);
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm

Microsoft Forefront Client Security;
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/clientsecurity/en/us/default.aspx

Corporate deployment (New method);
http://www.codeplex.com/fcscompete/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14440

A few web-casts that may also be interesting (have not seen them myself yet);
http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=348503
http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=348463

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Print Migrator 3.xx – an oldie but still useful

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Ever tried re-installing a file/print server?  And ever had to manually recreate a number of printers / print cue’s?  Its a horrible way to spend an evening :-/

And actually its a total waste of good (Battlefield playing) time, if you use “Print Migrator” from Microsoft to export the printers in advance you can simply re-import all printers and cue’s in minutes.  In order for this to work properly, you should export your printers from time to time (as a disaster recovery preemptive step).

Print Migrator is a Microsoft utility, and its free 😉

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/printmigrator3.1.mspx

Additional disaster recovery hints;
Be sure to backup;
DHCP scopes,
Printers,
Shared folder info (a reg key) – “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanserverShares” (you can once you have restored all data simply import this registry key and all shares are restored with correct NTFS).

Export data via commandline this way;
Create a C:ackup directory
use this commandline:

regedit /e c:ackupshares.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanservares

printmig -b c:ackup\%computername%-Printers.cab

Now you will have a dump of your printer cue’s and the setup of all your shares on this server/machine, these can be found in c:ackup.

This will reduce your recovery time tenfold.

I use a scheduled script like this to ensure I have a current backup of printers and shares;

@Echo off
cls
Echo *************************************************************************************
Echo * SYSTEMBACKUP SCRIPT V 20081104        *
Echo * This script will backup printers, dhcp and shares to c:systembackup directory    *
Echo *************************************************************************************
Echo.

rem
rem   To schedule at 12:00 /interactive /every:sa “c:systembackupsystembackup.cmd”
rem

mkdir c:systembackup
mkdir c:systembackupdhcp
mkdir c:systembackupprinters
mkdir c:systembackupshares

Echo System Backup Commencing… [SHARES]
regedit.exe /e c:systembackupshares\%computername%-shares.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanserver
Echo System Backup Commencing… [PRINTERS]
c:systembackup oolsprintmig.exe -b c:systembackupprinters\%computername%-Printers.cab
Echo System Backup Commencing… [DHCP]
del /F /Q c:systembackupdhcp*.*
copy %systemroot%system32dhcpBackup
ew c:systembackupdhcp
regedit.exe /e c:systembackupdhcp\%computername%-dhcp.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesDHCPServerParameters
netsh dhcp server dump > c:systembackupdhcpDHCPconfig.cfg

Echo Done.
exit

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