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Use with Windows Security, previously called Windows Defender Security Center.

References:
Help protect my device with Windows Security

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windows-defender
controlled-folder-access

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Identify local account vs domain account using SID

How can we know if an SID(Windows Event security identifier) belongs to a domain account or local account?
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Update Windows security remotely using powershell scheduled task

I am trying to Install windows security patches on a remote machine using powershell remoting. This is the function i am using to Update windows <# .SYNOPSIS This functiion will automatically install all avaialable windows updates on a device and…
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Programmatic created folder with ACL not accessible

I had a lot of pain programmatic creating a folder with ACL and owner.. Taks: Create a folder only accessible by one user (not even Administrator). (current) Solution: Run as Admin: // path is the directory, "target" the parent directory String path…
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Windows Security dialog looses focus and becomes unclickable in WPF app

Some users of our application need to be able to connect using a proxy. The first time that the app makes a request requiring proxy authentication, the request fails with the 407 error code, as expected, and Windows pops a dialog like the…
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How to pass Windows credential in a PowerShell script?

I am writing a PS script to open a URL automatically in a Chrome browser. I created a credential object and pass it to Start-Process as below. $username = Read-Host 'What is your username?' $password = Read-Host 'What is your password?'…
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prompt user to login to protected directory in python

I have a script that searches through a protected directory and opens file explorer to a selected location. The problem is that it only works after the user has already logged into the directory. Example of what sort of thing the code is doing…
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Insert Sharepoint Credentials using Powershell

When trying to open or sometimes close, via powershell, a word document in a sharepoint directory hosted in my company's network, the windows security box popup. How can I authenticate this ? Here is part of my script: $docpath =…
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Does SetThreadToken() keep the impersonation token alive?

While the main thread impersonates a client, my code creates a thread and assigns it the impersonation token using SetThreadToken. Then the main thread closes the token. Specifically, the main thread does this: Get a primary token using…
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How to do these permission granting commands in Windows Explorer?

In this tutorial, I found the following commands. ICACLS "%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config" /Grant "Network Service":R /T ICACLS "%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\administration.config" /Grant "Network Service":R ICACLS…
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SignalR Context.User.Identity.Name is null in console client/server

I've went through almost all the posts regarding this issue 2 times to make sure I didn't miss something. I still don't get this to work though. I have a Console SignalR Hub using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Core I have a console SignalR Client…
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SQL Server replication agents security

I was testing replication on different servers, and I found that the easiest way (for me) to do it is to run all the replication agents (SnapShot agent, Logreader agent , and Distribution agent) under the same Windows account. However, according to…
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How can I use a local computer account as the credentials for PSExec

I am working on some deployment PowerShell scripts that I plan to use with Bamboo for deployment. Within these PowerShell scripts, I want to run commands on a remote computer on our local network. I would like to use Invoke-Command and use the…
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Unable to use cypher suite on client machine in TLS 1.2

I have 2 desktop machines (windows 7). One is my development machine and other is my test machine. I have made a desktop application. It is connecting server using web request. I am using TLS1.2 for connection and HTTPClient (C#) has been used on…
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WinForm with WebBrowser control pops Windows Security for Authentication

I have created (using C#, VS2017, windows10 latest updates) a simple Windows Form application and included a webBrowser control redirecting to a page. I am having the Windows Security pop up asking for password and I want to disable it : I want…
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Excel RefreshAll using powershell script along with credentials

I need to refresh an excel using Powershell script (so that I can later schedule it in task scheduler). This refresh requires credentials to be entered. Does anyone know of a way to pass these credentials from the powershell script? The excel hangs…
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