RDP Port Forwarding on ASA
If RDP must be enabled without a VPN follow these instructions.
Category Archives: NMS Standards
Brightmail Antispoofing
There has been a rise in the number of instances of email addresses being spoofed. A new technique of masking the sender address by adding a “direct reply to” address, has increased the likelihood that a user will be fooled. The real sender address can only be detected when the user hits reply, at which point the new… Read More »
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
RDCMan makes it really easy to organize your hosts into groups, each group can have its own defaults that are automatically used (unless you choose to manually override), you can connect groups of servers with one click, plus many other nifty features. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21101
Clean Install Windows
When installing Windows ONLY connect the drive(s) that will run the OS and the optical drive. Be sure all others are disconnected by: inspecting the internal connections in the PC, disconnecting all externals, and verifying the target drive specs in BIOS > Drives Disable drives not connected in BIOS > Drives Set the RAID to AHCI for a single… Read More »
Cabling
Making Ethernet cables: Straight = wO,O,WG,Bl,wBl,G,wBr,Br Cross Over = wG,GwO,B,wB,O,wBr,Br Patch Cable Color standard: Color Use Black Desk side Patch Blue PC to Switch 1000 Green Router to ISP Orange PC to Switch 10/100 [Cat5] Red Server to Switch White DRAC & KVM Yellow Switch to Router Switch to Switch Switch to Wireless