So this was a weird one. Remote desktop stopped working on client machines. Troubleshooting led to a group policy Block rule in the Windows firewall but there was no such GPO setting.
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Password Complexity Rules May be End of Life
I’ve often thought that certain password policies actually reduce security because users, being human, create less-than-secure mechanisms by writing passwords down or by reusing the same passwords whilst adding a simple digit on at the end. It now seems that GCHQ agrees with me!
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Can Great Engineers become Great Managers?
I was initially going to call this article “Why do Great Engineers Often Become Poor Managers” but I decided this was an unfairly negative title for a complex issue with many variables. All industries have their good and bad managers, is IT any different?
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Welcome to my new blog. It’s still a work in progress so forgive me if it takes a while to come together…