VM-Aware

I found a bunch of great cmdlets that have now been bundled into the free Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory package.  They include:

• Add-QADPermission
• Get-QADObjectSecurity
• Get-QADPermission
• Get-QADRootDSE
• Get-QARSAccessTemplate
• Get-QARSAccessTemplateLink
• New-QARSAccessTemplateLink
• Remove-QADPermission
• Remove-QARSAccessTemplateLink
• Set-QADObjectSecurity
• Set-QARSAccessTemplateLink

These helped no end in the management of AD permissions with PowerShell.  I found the original post discussing the package here, but you can download the Quest AD cmdlets here completely free of charge.

A blog at the Washington Post offers some little tidbits on how to make your websites more secure.

You can read the post here, bear in mind that it is totally IIS focussed, but pretty useful nonetheless.