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BIG-IP audit log guide for Windows admins
One thing that I am always keen to keep track of is configuration changes made to a system and by whom this is done. For an administrator such as myself who has always worked in a Windows environment...
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Handy simple F5 redirect iRules
iRules are great and extremely powerful. If however you just want to dip your toes in to do a few basic redirects it can be a bit confusing.Here are a few very basic iRules that can be used to do "the...
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F5 BIG-IP configuring HTTP and HTTPS monitors 101
HTTP monitors verify that a site is not only up but that it is actually functional. Monitors can be very basic or they can get rather involved. Because they do more than simply doing a basic check...
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Attack surface comparison for Server 2012 editions
With Windows Server 2012 Microsoft has done a great job with simplifying the features and capabilities of the server platform. Essentially there are no longer any functional differences between...
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Windows Server 2012 Core Management step by step
One of the barriers to entry for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core was the fact that managing it was a technical difficulty. With Server 2012 things are much simpler. I will take you through installing and...
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Quick key performance couter view with PowerShell
Windows Server 2012 makes managing a group of servers remotely much simpler. PowerShell gives easy access to the performance counters. Here are a few handy commands to help you check out the...
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Use PowerShell to query multiple AD server for account lockout events
Here is a quick tip on how to query a named list of domain controller to find a lockout event for a particular users. This is always a problem since often users have no idea from where the failed...
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Managing the Windows Firewall with PowerShell
Using PowerShell to manage the Windows Advanced Security and Firewall is extremely handy when dealing with a Server Core installations and even more so when you are managing Hyper-V server 2012.In this...
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Windows 8 Offline Installation of .Net 3.5
Windows 8 include .Net 3.5 on the installation media. It is however not installed by default. To further complicate things it attempt to do an online installation if you enable it through the Windows...
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Convert VMDK and physical drives to VHD and VHDX
If you have ever wanted to move a virtual machine or virtual disk form VMware or to create a virtual copy of a physical drive, this is a great little free tool to do this. I was in a bit of a bind...
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Windows 8 Hyper-V limitations
One of the coolest things about Windows 8 is that you now have Hyper-V available to you. No more do you have a need to run Windows Server on your desktop just to get Hyper-V. Having said that, there...
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PowerShell to "Allow management operating system to share this network adapter"
When you are configuring Hyper-V switches one should always keep in mind that the host needs a communication network too. I was busy configuring network teams and virtual switches when I successfully...
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Using Powershell to Backup Hyper-V VMs - Step by Step
Server 2012 has load of improvements for backup. The ability to backup a running virtual machine without any interruption or downtime is really powerful. Automating the backup task creation for...
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Interactive Login Legal Notice Removal
Most corporate are at some point required to show a legal notice prior to logging on to a computer. This is normally configured by group policy.The settings are under - Computer Configuration -...
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F5 BIG-IP how to configure email SMTP alerts step by step
The default alerting method is using SNMP traps, there is however a relatively simple although lengthy process to get the same alerts by email. I am writing this with the Windows admin in mind, but it...
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Automatically feed your blog posts to Twitter and FaceBook
Having a blog is great but you have to be present on all of the social media platforms. The easiest way of doing this is with TwitterFeed check them out:
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Advanced IIS compression configuration
Enhancing the standard static and dynamic content compression can improve your site's performance. The standard "out of the box" configuration works great for most situations but every site is...
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F5 Diaries - Episode 1 Building the lab
Join me on my journey of trying to make F5 kit work without going on all the official (read - expensive) training. I am using a test lab environment specifically set up for doing all this kind of...
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F5 Diaries - Episode 2 ISP Redundancy
Having more than one ISP for your corporate is essential. If one ISP fails for whatever reason the show must go on. Similarly if one of the ISPs becomes congested and start to run slowly traffic needs...
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F5 Diaries - Episode 3 ISP Load Balancing
Having redundancy or fail-over is one thing, having active load balancing is another. F5 LTM allows you to configure both.In Episode 1 and 2 I covered building the lab and setting up a very basic ISP...
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