Following the recent Poodle vulnerability, and the general best practice that you should always use the most secure protocols available, I have been spending some time reconfiguring servers. Setting the order of ciphers, and enabling Forward Secrecy in Windows requires editing the registry – a lot. This is susceptible to errors, as the process is
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Category: Internet Security
Automating pfSense Backups
Just found a fantastic tool which is so simple and just works. https://knowledge.zomers.eu/pfsense/Pages/How-to-automate-pfSense-backup.aspx Downloaded, tested, in place and working within 15 minutes. Perfect! Be the first to like. Mark this post as useful. Unmark this post as useful.
Untangle 9.3.2 on Hyper-V 2012
I have just been playing with getting an Untangle (http://www.untangle.com) server up and running on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V install. Looking at this as a possible replacement to ISA 2004 on our current Windows SBS 2003 install. I had read up various articles of problem that have been encountered with network adapters, no mouse
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Disable ‘Automatically detect settings’ in Internet Explorer
This script allows you to turn off (or on) the ‘Automatically Detect Settings’ check box in Internet Explorer. I have not been able to find a way which guarantees that this will not be checked. You can set a Group Policy into Internet Explorer Preference Mode, but if a user later changes it, then it
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TMG & ISA Tools
Just a quick plug for Jim Harrison here, who for the third time this month has made my life easier by either collating or producing an array of useful tools for ISA and TMG. Take a peek at http://www.isatools.org/ Also got up to date information on ISA and TMG releases. Definitely one to bookmark. Be
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Redirect Website Root to /Exchange & Correct Protocols
Just been working on a way around one of life’s annoyances. To get to an OWA 2003 site on a Windows SBS 2003 box, I have to remember to put in https:// and remember to put /exchange at the end. It annoys me having to remember, I often forget the protocol and it wastes my time. Today
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ISA 2004: Configure HTTP Greyed Out
To set the scene, we have just created a WSS 3 site using forms based authentication. Published it through ISA 2004. Browsed to the site and we get this error. Following Microsoft’s guidance and information on various blogs, it suggetsed to disable the Verify Normalisation and the Block High Bit Characters options in the HTTP
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ISA 2006: Re-design
Just been working on our ISA infrastructure. We have 2 ISA servers, 1 for staff, and 1 for students. Main reason for the separate servers is that each ‘group’ have to go through a different upstream proxy server. (Bit of a pain, but that’s what we have to do.) Simple task this morning, block a
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ISA 2006 Word Filter
Have been looking today at word filters in ISA 2006, and stumbled across this post below. I was looking for a way of ensuring that any web page containing the address of a well known games site, used for general timewasting in the college. Anyway, found this post, implemented the filters as it described, and
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