Interesting: [Ardhive.is] Use Software Restriction Policies to block viruses and malware | Branko Vucinec
via: [WayBack] Ransomware treft Tweede Kamer – Malware versleutelt overheidsbestanden – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
–jeroen
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Use Software Restriction Policies to block viruses and malware | Branko Vucinec
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/25
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Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated – but it still pays to switch to PowerShell
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/21
About a year ago, [WayBack] Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers got published as a response to confusing posts like these:
- [WayBack] Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt | Computerworld
- [WayBack] Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all | Computerworld
But I still think it’s a wise idea to switch away from the Cmd and to PowerShell as with PowerShell you get way more consistent language features, far better documentation, truckloads of new features (of which I like the object pipeline and .NET interoperability most) and far fewer quirks.
It’s time as well, as by now, Windows 7 has been EOL for a while, and Windows 8.x is in extended support: [WayBack] Windows lifecycle fact sheet – Windows Help:
Client operating systems Latest update or service pack End of mainstream support End of extended support Windows XP Service Pack 3 April 14, 2009 April 8, 2014 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 April 10, 2012 April 11, 2017 Windows 7* Service Pack 1 January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 January 9, 2018 January 10, 2023 Windows 10, released in July 2015** N/A October 13, 2020 October 14, 2025
Which means the PowerShell version baseline on supported Windows versions is at least 4.0: [Archive.is] windows 10 powershell version – Google Search and [WayBack] PowerShell versions and their Windows version – 4sysops
PowerShell and Windows versions ^
PowerShell Version Release Date Default Windows Versions PowerShell 2.0 October 2009 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 (**) PowerShell 3.0 September 2012 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 PowerShell 4.0 October 2013 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 PowerShell 5.0 April 2014 (***) Windows 10
So try PowerShell now. You won’t regret it.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Very interesting clear-up post and comments on CMD, command.com, PowerShell in past and future DOS/Windows versions and Unix shells altogether. – Ilya S – Google+
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libssh-delphi will migrate from Mercurial on BitBucket to git on GitHub soon (or finding about “fatal: repository … not found”, “MSVCR120.dll is missing” and “D3DCOMPILER_47.dll is missing” when prepping a fresh VM for a presentation)
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/08
When git on Windows suddenly gives you this when the repository URL opens fine in Chrome:
C:\Users\jeroenp\Versioned>git clone https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/libssh2-delphi Cloning into 'libssh2-delphi'... remote: Not Found fatal: repository 'https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/libssh2-delphi/' not found
but this worked fine:
C:\Users\jeroenp\Versioned>git clone https://github.com/jpluimers/GExperts.git Cloning into 'GExperts'... remote: Counting objects: 12031, done. remote: Total 12031 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 12031R Receiving objects: 100% (12031/12031), 9.77 MiB | 1.36 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (9284/9284), done.
I first thought “huh?”.
Then I remembered: this was a Mercurial repository, but I hardly use Mercurial any more…
C:\Users\jeroenp\Versioned>hg clone https://jeroenp@bitbucket.org/jeroenp/libssh 2-delphi destination directory: libssh2-delphi requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 30 changesets with 56 changes to 25 files updating to branch default 12 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
Since I wanted to switch away from bitbucket for a long time anyway, it was time to say goodbye and find out how to make the conversion to git.
A quick search revealed there were many tedious manual ways involving command-lines: [WayBack] Convert Mercurial project to Git – Stack Overflow
But then I found out that github can fully automagically import a Mercurial Repository (of course without the BitBucket attached bells and whistles like issue tracker):
- [WayBack] About GitHub Importer – User Documentation
- [WayBack] Importing a repository with GitHub Importer – User Documentation
So it is now at github.com/jpluimers/libssh2-delphi with one user still to be mapped at github.com … libssh2-delphi/import/authors: Zeljko Marjanovic. If I ever get in contact with him (I tried over the last 2 years), then I will add him.
For now, I will be in touch with Vadum Lou (a.k.a. https://github.com/pult, full nameVadim V. Lopushansky) who already made another manually copied fork and get his additions integrated.
I might redo the conversion process later on as at least some of his submissions are at least partially in a Mercurial pull request.
Then I need to merge the develop branch into the master branch and prepare a release.
Oh: if it fails to debug in Delphi, then run the EXE alone. You will get an error like this:
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SftpClientDemo.exe - System Error
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The program can't start because MSVCR120.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
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OK
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I need to document this better in the README.md: the underlying libssh2 DLLs require the Visual Studio 2013 C++ run-time library to be installed. The latest version I could find as of writing is vcredist_x86.exe version 12.0.40649.5 from the Update for Visual C++ 2013 and Visual C++ Redistributable Package at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3138367 (download selection) or http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/C/2/CC2DF5F8-4454-44B4-802D-5EA68D086676/vcredist_x86.exe (direct download).
I need to update If a program you wrote can’t start becuase MSVCR*.dll is missing, then you forgot to ship the Visual C++ runtime… from 2012 on this as well as there are more versions available now than listed there.
Another error I got was the one below when running .NET stuff, but that might be because Windows Update was in progress:
- [WayBack] Update for the d3dcompiler_47.dll component on Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2
- [WayBack] D3DCompiler_47.dll is missing. How to fix it? – [Solved] – Windows 7
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SourceTree.exe - System Error
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The program can't start because D3DCOMPILER_47.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
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OK
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Later: yes, that was indeed fixed during Windows update. Apparently, Microsoft has an update installation order issue or a dependency requirement issue where part of .NET depends on that DLL, even though it is not yet present.
–jeroen
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Windows 10 auto-logout on <5 minutes of inactivity – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/26
This seems to work on other Windows versions as well: [WayBack] Windows 10 auto-logout on <5 minutes of inactivity – Super User
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Finding out when your domain password will expire :: Active Directory :: Admin Tips :: Windows 7 :: Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base :: KBase Tips :: WindowsNetworking.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/02
Here’s how you can find out when your domain password will expire.
net user %USERNAME% /domain
It figures this out for the current logon domain (so it doesn’t work cross-domain) but it is a great help, especially when filtering out just the password information:
net user %USERNAME% /domain | findstr "Password"
This can be done in a more complex way with dsquery or adinfo that are tools to query
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