Microsoft’s April 2025 Kerberos protections — delivered to close CVE‑2025‑26647 — introduced a new operational knob, AllowNtAuthPolicyBypass, that was intended to let administrators audit then enforce stricter certificate-based authentication behavior on domain controllers; the rollout fixed a...
Microsoft’s long-running Kerberos hardening campaign is entering its final, non-reversible phase: the temporary registry workarounds that allowed administrators to keep weak certificate mappings and “Compatibility” behavior will be removed with the September 2025 servicing wave, forcing everyone...