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PPTP

Is PPTP insecure?

Yes. PPTP is (and always has been) insecure. It is a very common protocol (present in Microsoft Windows ever since Windows 95). There are several known security issues with PPTP, and it’s likely that intelligence agencies (and perhaps others?) decrypt PPTP with ease. It may be easy to set up and available on many platforms,

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How to connect to Office 365 with PowerShell

Before connecting for the first time, enable Windows PowerShell to run signed scripts: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Every time you want to connect, run the following commands: $UserCredential = Get-Credential (enter your Office 365 username & password) $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session And don’t forget to close your

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How do I fix “The connection cannot proceed because authentication is not enabled and the remote computer requires that authentication be enabled to connect.”?

In the more modern versions of Microsoft Windows (for example Windows 10 & Windows Server 2016) the RDP defaults have changed. The default for “SecurityLayer” has been changed from 0 to 2. Disabling: “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended)” doesn’t change that value to a 0 either. This

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