For Siteminder Administrators an often overlooked functionality is the built in Cross Site Scripting and SQL Injection protection. Out of the box these settings are not enabled, but can be enabled at the Agent Configuration Object used by your web servers. At a high level this functionality inspects the URL being sent to the Web Agent and takes action before the request reaches the web server based on black listed...
Windows Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC) allows you to build custom resources to implement new functionality. When creating my first custom resource I stumbled across a few gotchas in the TechNet documentation. After using the TechNet example MOF Schema I hit a few errors. My assumption is this is due to changes from the preview version to the actual release version. TechNet Example Schema The first error occurred when generating...
With the release of Powershell 4.0, we can now leverage Powershell DSC across Server 2012 and Server 2008 R2. This is a pretty good foot print for supporting any modern infrastructure. In my opinion, DSC is one of the most powerful features to be added to Powershell since WinRM. It provides a great foundation for generating very solid infrastructure automation for Windows Servers. There’s a number of great resources for...
