Monitoring PPP Packets

I was troubleshooting a Dialup Issue when I stumble upon a authentication issue. I was trying to find a way to monitor PPP Packets but Ethereal does not have a packed decoder for Microsoft's PPP protocol. I was unabled to do monitor it using Microsoft's own packet capture utility.

Jet Database Corruption

I am currently investigating Secedit.sdb database corruption on machines. There is very little microsoft documentation on how this secedit.sdb relates to Group Policy. I can only assume for now that it was intended to Managed Local Policy settings on machines. To managed meaning, the ability to take a snapshot of the existing registry settings (LOCAL POLICIES) and export them to a file and vice versa, the ability to IMPORT policies defined as a template file to the REGISTRY.

Microsoft decided to use a JET DATABASE to store this information.

I will publish the results of my investigation.

Reset Password Issue

System Administration and Photography

Resetting the password gives an error cannot find the stored procedure, however the password gets RESET. Another one to investigate

Re-permissioning

Use of Tools such as xcacls and setacl will do the trick when permissions need to be re-applied or updated. I have created a set of tools like the automation script which allows creation of a single batch file that accepts multiple arguments.