Useful resources for windows admin

• 09/29/21
• moon moon

Here is a collection of links and resources I've ran across over the years related to Windows administration.

• Windows Privilege Abuse: Auditing, Detection, and Defence - A Medium article by the Palentir blog (I know, I don't like them either) that talks about privilege abuse.

• Overlooked Tactics for Attacking Hardened Active Directory Environment - A talk from BSidesLV 2018 that I've been meaning to watch.

• Kerberos Explained in a Little Too Much Detail - A full run through of Kerberos authentication.

• Service overview and network port requirements for Windows - A fantastic document that lists all the port requirements for Windows and AD/Kerberos connections.

• Windows Reference Images for Rapid Virtual Machine Deployment - A guide on creating Windows reference images for quick VM deployment.

• Collect diagnostic data with Storage Spaces Direct - An MS Docs page on S2D diagnostics.

• DISKSPD Disk Profiling Tool - A Microsoft Open Source tool for disk benchmarking at scale.