The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) regulates security practices to protect cardholder data. Password compliance plays an important role in the PCI standards by dictating password complexity to strengthen defense against unauthorized access. New requirements coming... Read More
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The data present in the reparse buffer is invalid 0x80071128
A number of Specops Deploy App and Specops Inventory customers have recently reported the following error: Exception: System.IO.IOExceptionThe data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid. We believe this is a general Microsoft group policy related issue, caused... Read More
Are my computers patched against Meltdown and Spectre?
Following the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, we have had a number of enquiries from customers about tools that can identify affected machines in their environment. Microsoft has prepared a PowerShell script that can run on individual... Read More
User management and authentication for O365: Microsoft or 3rd party?
Office 365 (O365) adoption is continuing across organizations, now with more than 100 million active users. These organizations will reap the benefits of a cloud service – freed up internal resources, and easy access to updates with minimal maintenance... Read More
Step up your security game with dynamic MFA
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) requires authentication from independent categories of credentials: something you know (i.e. password), something you have (i.e. Mobile device), and something you are (i.e. Fingerprint). MFA enhances security when accessing resources on SaaS applications, and even during... Read More
Press Release: Specops Software launches Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365
Stockholm, Sweden – December 18, 2017. Specops Software announced today the launch of Specops Authentication for Office 365. This new software helps companies transition to Office 365 (O365) while keeping user data in their on premise Active Directory to... Read More
How to remove insecure TLS protocols on your Password Reset System
A customer recently reported a problem with their Specops DMZ server after users were unable to reset their passwords via the password reset mobile app. The customer reinstalled the DMZ server, but still no success. Typically when we run... Read More
GDPR compliance and access control – what you should already be doing
With less than a year until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect, all organizations collecting or processing data for individuals within the EU are in the midst of developing their compliance strategy. The new regulation will... Read More
ADUC Menu Extensions in Specops Products
A user in Active Directory may be affected by a Group Policy extended with Specops settings. Many Specops products add an extension to the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) console. Right-clicking on a user object will display new... Read More
Removing DHCP options 66 and 67 for WDS PXE booting
When our Specops Deploy customers run into errors during PXE boot, the likely culprit is often DHCP scope options 66 and 67. Aside from Microsoft not supporting the use of the aforementioned options to redirect PXE clients, it can... Read More