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Common Cisco ASA Firewall Configuration Commands

Setting up a Trunk with a Between Cisco ASA and Cisco 3560 Switch ASA Configuration To configure the ASA side of the trunk you need to: Select the interface you will be using. interface ethernet0/2 Then create a subinterface for each VLAN you intend to use.. interface ethernet0/2.2 Configure the IP address on each subinterface. ip address 192.168.64.1 255.255.255.0 Add [...]

GFI WebMonitor For Microsoft ISA Server Review

“GFI WebMonitor is a comprehensive monitoring tool that plugs in and compliments the functionality provided by Microsoft ISA Server to enable you to monitor and filter network users’ web traffic (browsing and file downloads) in real time. It enables you to block web connections in progress as well as to scan traffic for viruses, trojans, [...]

DPM Agent Install on Domain Controller – Ensure that the Windows Management Information (WMI) service NO_PARAM is started and is accessible from the DPM server

Whe installing the DPM agent on a domain controller you receive the below error messages: The following log is created in the Windows DPM Alerts event log: Event Type: Warning Event Source: DPM-EM Event Category: None Event ID: 1 Date: 4/28/2009 Time: 10:40:37 AM User: N/A Computer: DPMSERVER1 Description: Agent operation failed. (ID: 370) DPM is unable to retrieve the configuration information from DC02.domain.local. (ID: 346) DPM ID: [...]

A Day In The Trenches With A Windows Server 2003 Domain Environment

Not an entire day but long enough. Let me give you a rundown. The other day I was moving the PDC and BDC roles around two servers while I was rebuilding and decommissioning them. The first move was successful and the original PDC was rebuilt. I then moved the FSMO roles back and started the [...]

Using Log Parser to Generate Bandwidth Usage Statistics

Using Log Parser you can easily generate simple output from different types of log files. A handy use for this is to quickly output the amount on data received and sent for an IIS website. To get this going there are some things you need to make sure are set: You must ensure you are logging [...]

Offtopic. MacBook Typo – Yeah!

Spotted this while checking out the MacBook’s. http://www.apple.com/au/macbookpro/specs.html I’m guessing whoever wrote this page was getting side tracked with an IM convo

DPM 2007 SP1 – Hyper-V – DPM encountered a retryable VSS error. (ID 30112 Details: Unknown error (0×800423f3) (0×800423F3))

A few days ago our Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 SP1 server started having issues with one specific Hyper-V Virtual Machine backup. The initial error reported in DPM was replica is inconsistent, with the full details: Affected area: \Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\VMSERVER1 Occurred since: 2/19/2009 10:59:14 AM Description: The replica of Microsoft Hyper-V \Backup Using Child Partition [...]

Setup ISA Server 2006 for DPM 2007 Backups

In this post I’ll run you through the requirements for getting Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 (ISA) backed up successfully using Data Protection Manager 2007. If you don’t perform the below before attempting to protect the ISA Server from DPM you will receive errors similar to the following: Event Type: Warning Event Source: DPM-EM Event Category: None Event ID: [...]

Updating Windows Server 2008 Core – The Easy Way

As anybody running Windows Server 2008 Core knows, updating the core install can be a problem. Normally, manually downloading and installing the updates one by one or using a script post download is the way most people will update their Server 2008 Core systems. No more! After doing some digging I found the following script [...]

PHPBB.com Hacked – With an Apparant Full Writeup From The Hacker

This is what you will see if you go to phpbb.com right now 12:30PM GMT +10. The apparant hacker has written a full blog post on blogspot detailing the entire process, which is actually an intresting read. Hit it up here: http://hackedphpbb.blogspot.com/ Since the blog post will probably be taken down soon I’ve saved it in the attached [...]