Turn off Windows Defender routine remediation using a GPO setting called "DisableRoutinelyTakingAction". This policy setting allows you to configure whether Microsoft Defender Antivirus automatically takes action on all detected threats.
Enabling Windows Defender per GPO failed with the error message "Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.", here is how to resolve this issue.
In this post I address four (4) important actionable security measures for your servers running Windows Server (AD DS, DFS, IIS) and RDP.
It is urged you disable SMBv1 in your Windows variant (Windows 10, 8.1, Server 2016, 2012 R2), and here is how if you haven't done so yet.
Windows Server 2016 was finally released last week, meaning we can finally lift the idiotic 260 characters limitation for NTFS paths. For this, you use a GPO or Group Policy Object in Windows Server.
