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Symantec AntiVirus on Linux is a fragile and unforgiving beast – especially the problematic LiveUpdate client which is not correctly documented for install / config. Read on for information on my process for installing Symantec AV including Auto-Protect on my …
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SmartCard (CAC) Integration Integrating Active Directory with CAC requires a number of steps. A good online reference is at Microsoft KB281245 (pre Server 2008 but still valuable). For rebuild purposes, use the following sections.
When debugging a network problem, the first one wants to do is to…get the packets! In the past watching network traffic in real-time required either “promiscuous” mode network cards (NICs) or using hardware-based “port mirroring” on physical switches. Read below …
This is a quick entry on a particularly irritating CentOS peculiarity – after you clone a virtual machine, your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 no longer gets invoked. This is because CentOS can arbitrarily assign the physical network card to a different logic interface …
Click here to download the whitepaper “Cisco – Software Router Migration” now! In this paper, the reader follows along as a set of software routers are migrated to Cisco hardware routers. Software routers, while easy to setup and maintain, suffer …
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Download “HBSS Notes 2 of 2 – Configure ePO Server” from here! Have you been tasked to deploy and configure the DoD Information Systems Agency (DISA) Host-Based Security System (HBSS)? If so, you know that this is a high-visibility effort …
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In this post I share the results of installing and configuring the DISA Host-Based Security System (HBSS) in a real Army environment. HBSS is critical to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The …
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Currently studying for the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam and working thru lab after lab to learn the material. Discovered the wonderful Dynamips/Dynagen site that allows you to emulate Cisco routers. But one problem: some of the labs have …
Sometimes raw disk space trumps all else – especially in the smaller environment where disks are at a premium and consumers are actively waiting. This article describes how to use the NetApp FAS2240 to maximize disk space while still providing …
This article details exactly how to take an arbitrary server, install a *hardened* Windows Server 2008 R2 (W2K8R2) image on it, and then use that W2K8R2 server to deliver NFS to ESXi hosts. We had to do this recently to …