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Users working with Hyper-V Virtualization would be interested to know that Altaro is hosting a free webinar on the 25th of February 2016 at 4pm CET /…
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This article serves as an Active Directory tutorial covering installation and setup of Windows 2012 Active Directory Services Role & Domain Contr…
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Most would remember the days we had to have a CDROM or DVDROM in order to proceed with the installation of an operating system. Today, it is very com…
Windows Servers
This article provides a comprehensive guide to deploying Active Directory and DNS Services on Windows Server 2022, encompassing the Essential, Standa…

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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 too…
Linux - Unix
You could actually skip this whole section for those who are already familiar with the topic, but we highly recommend you read it because this is the hear…
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BIND (Berkely Internet Name Domain) is a popular software for translating domain names into IP addresses and usually found on Linux servers. This article…
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Resource sharing, like file systems and printers, in Microsoft Windows systems, is accomplished using a protocol called the Server Message Block or SMB. F…

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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 play…
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NAT (Network Address Translation) is a method that allows the translation (modification) of IP addresses while packets/datagrams are traversing the networ…
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