Environmental Settings

How-to verify MSDTC settings for FTK Central environments
A pre-requisite while installing and operating FTK Central is to ensure that network connectivity is sufficiently established and firewalls allow traffic to...
Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 4:46 AM
FTK 7.6: Containerizing .dat files for efficient disk management
Containerizing .dat files for efficient disk management When processing .UFDR files and running System Summary, FTK stores some non-containerized data whic...
Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:35 PM
FTK: Unreadable Fonts and Icons
Fixing unreadable fonts and icons when using Windows with high resolution monitors   Right click the Windows desktop. Select Scale and Layout. Change t...
Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:03 PM
FTK: Anti-Virus Exclusions List [Latest]
Please note, the directories may differ depending on the chosen installation path. The current list contains what can be installed with the latest distr...
Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:18 PM
CodeMeter Passthrough with Hyper-V
Problem CodeMeter can't mount physical dongles on a Hyper-V virtual machine.   Resolution NOTE: These instructions assume that you already have Code...
Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Test if a port is open
Question How can I test communication over a given port?   Process Confirm something is listening on the desired port Confirm that the target machine i...
Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 8:15 AM
FTK Installations: Addressing Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
Vulnerability Background FTK Central supports TLS protocols older than TLS 1.2 which are no longer considered cryptographically secure. Due to the possibil...
Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:43 PM
FTK Central 7.5.1+ - Job Management within a distributed environment (Clustered)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Job Management within a distributed environment Example Environment Setting up the Exterro Service Master/Slaves How to install the E...
Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 2:53 AM
Enable .NET Framework in Windows Server
Introduction: The .NET Framework is a necessary prerequisite for many AccessData products.  The following steps will ensure the required .NET Framework vers...
Wed, May 24, 2023 at 4:06 PM
How can I reserve ports used by PRTK/DNA so that they are not taken by other programs?
This article only applies to the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.  Microsoft has removed the ability to exclude ephemeral ports in Windows ...
Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:57 PM