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Windows Servers
The new Hyper-V virtualization features offered by Windows Server 2016 are planning to make major changes in the virtualization market. From Nested H…
Windows Servers
As more companies around the world adopt the virtualization technology to increase efficiency and productivity, Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization pl…
Windows Servers
In this article we will show you how to enable the ‘Web Server’ certificate template option on a Windows Certification Authority (Windows CA) Server…
Windows Servers
Network Location Awareness (NLA) is a feature offered on Windows Server 2012 R2 and all Windows workstation editions from Windows 8.1 and above, incl…

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Virtualization & VM Backup
Celebrate World Backup Day and WIN with Altaro! We all remember how grateful we were to have backup software when facing so many data loss mishaps…
Virtualization & VM Backup
The Free Backup Bible Complete Edition written by backup expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron, is comprised of 200+ pages of actionable content divide…
Virtualization & VM Backup
In this article we will show you how to enable SNMP on your VMware ESXi host, configure SNMP Community string and configure your ESXi firewall to all…
Virtualization & VM Backup
In this article we will cover the differences between VMware ESXi, vSphere and vCenter while also explain the features supported by each vSphere edit…

Windows Workstation Articles:

Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)
A Q&A with Cristian Florian, Product Manager For GFI LanGuard On Security Implications & Planning Ahead With Windows XP End of Life & En…
Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Not many people are aware that Windows 7 has built-in capabilities that allow it to be transformed into a perfectly working access point so that wire…
Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Not many users are aware that Windows 7 provides more than one way to configure a workstation’s network adaptor IP address or force it to obtain an I…
Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)
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…

Linux-Unix Articles:

Linux - Unix
BIND (Berkely Internet Name Domain) is a popular software for translating domain names into IP addresses and usually found on Linux servers. This art…
Linux - Unix
So far we have covered in great detail the main files required for the firewall.cx domain. These files, which we named db.firewall.cx and db.192.168…
Linux - Unix
This article was written thanks to our recent encounter of a HP DL120 G7 rack mount server equipped with a HP Smart Array B110i SATA Raid controller…
Linux - Unix
You may be a user at home, a user in a LAN (local area network), or a system administrator of a large network of computers. Alternatively, you may be…

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Linux - Unix
The first question is - what are the benefits of using Linux instead of Windows? This is in fact a constant debate between the Windows and Linux communiti…
Linux - Unix
File & folder security is a big part of any operating system and Linux is no exception! These permissions allow you to choose exactly who can access…
Linux - Unix
Now that you're done learning some of the Basic Linux commands and how to use them to install Linux Software, it's time we showed you some of the other wa…
Linux - Unix
This article covers the main TCP/IP network configuration files used by Linux to configure various network services of the system such as IP Address, Defa…

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SASE & SD-WAN Networks
By: Shlomo Kramer, Check Point Software & Cato Networks Co-Founder As one of the founders of Check Point Software and more recently Cato Networks, I’…
SASE & SD-WAN Networks
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an architecture widely regarded as the future of enterprise networking and security. In previous articles we talked a…
OpManager - Network Monitoring & Management
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Celebrate World Backup Day and WIN with Altaro! We all remember how grateful we were to have backup software when facing so many data loss mishaps and n…
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This article is the second-part of our Palo Alto Networks Firewall technical articles. Our previous article was introduction to Palo Alto Networks Firewal…
Palo Alto Networks
Our previous article examined the benefits of Palo Alto Networks Firewall Single Pass Parallel Processing (SP3) architecture and how its combine with the…
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