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Windows 2012 Server NIC Teaming – Load Balancin...

NIC Teaming, also known as Windows Load Balancing or Failover (LBFO), is an extremely useful feature supported by Windows Server 2012 that allows t...
Windows Servers

Active Directory Tombstone Lifetime Modification

Tombstone is a container object that contains the deleted objects from Active Directory. Actually when an object is deleted from Active Directory, ...
Windows Servers

Renaming Windows 2000 Domain Name

Sometimes renaming a domain is an essential business requirement. There are many situations, such as mergers, change of company name or migration f...
Windows Servers

Windows Server 2016 VM Backup with Altaro's New...

Altaro has released Altaro VM Backup, a faster and lighter upgrade to its flagship Hyper-V and VMware backup solution, which now supports all Windo...

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The Backup Bible. A Free Complete Guide to Disa...

The Free Backup Bible Complete Edition written by backup expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron, is comprised of 200+ pages of actionable content divi...

Differences Between VMware vSphere, vCenter, ES...

In this article we will cover the differences between VMware ESXi, vSphere and vCenter while also explain the features supported by each vSphere ed...

How to Fix VMware ESXi Virtual Machine 'Invalid...

In this article, we'll show you how to deal with VMs which are reported to have an Invalid Status as shown in the screenshot below. This is a ...

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Configuring Linux to Act as a Firewall - Linux IPTab...

What exactly is a firewall? As in the non-computer world, a firewall acts as a physical barrier to prevent fires from spreading. In the computer world t...
Linux - Unix

Configuring Linux Samba (SMB) - How to Setup Samba (...

Resource sharing, like file systems and printers, in Microsoft Windows systems, is accomplished using a protocol called the Server Message Block or SMB....
Linux - Unix

Updating Your Linux Server - How to Update Linux Wor...

Like any other software, an operating system needs to be updated. Updates are required not only because of the new hardware coming into the market, but ...
Linux - Unix

Linux BIND DNS - Part 3: Configuring The db.192.168....

The db.192.168.0 zone data file is the second file we need to create and configure for our BIND DNS server. As outlined in the DNS-BIND Introduction, th...

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Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)

The Importance of Windows Hosts File - How to Use Yo...

This article explains how the Windows operating system makes use of the popular Host file, where it is located for various operating systems, how it can...
Cisco Switches

Cisco 4507R+E Layer 3 Installation: Redundant WS-X45...

It's no news that we here at Firewall.cx enjoy writing about our installations of Cisco equipment and especially devices that we don’t get to see and pl...
Cisco Routers

Configuring Cisco Site to Site IPSec VPN with Dynami...

This article serves as an extension to our popular Cisco VPN topics covered here on Firewall.cx. While we’ve covered Site to Site IPSec VPN Tunnel Betwe...
Cisco Switches

DHCP Option 82 Message Format, Analysis. DHCP Snoopi...

This article provides in-depth analysis of DHCP Option 82 (DHCP Relay Agent) which is one of the +180 DHCP Options available to the DHCP protocol and us...