In this short post, I'll explain one of the techniques to monitor whether a modem is listening for incoming calls on a machine, using Operations Manager 2007. Assuming that you may have some modems that get turned on when Read more

One of the reasons why the company I work at has taken the decision to implement Operations Manager is because the daily task to go through a pile of interfacing and backup log files became too time consuming and Read more

As far as I know, there are no free Management Packs available for monitoring Juniper/Netscreen firewalls with Operations Manager 2007. Catching snmp traps and syslog events seems to be the only "easy"/free way to monitor what is going on Read more

CyberArmor is a really excellent personal firewall. The CyberArmor suite consists of a Policy Server (and Policy Manager) used to create policies, a CyberServer (used to capture logs and alarms, optional), a Secure Ping Server (optional) and an MSDE Read more

Every admin knows by now that using Active Directory as the central authentication database allows for a lot of possibilities in terms of user account and security management. Keeping internal as well as external users in one and the Read more

Today, I will explain the (easy) steps to set up a route-based IPSec VPN tunnel between a Juniper Netscreen firewall/VPN device and a remote Cisco device (such as Cisco ASA)

If you are looking for more generic information on Read more

As most of the bigger players in the firewall market, Juniper/Netscreen SreenOS based firewalls allow you to use/enforce/require authentication for various reasons :

• Admin login
• Client VPN
• Authentication to open a specific rule on the firewall

In a default Read more

Keywords : Free generic POP3 collector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Exchange 2003 Exchange 2007 Lotus Domino Server download email from POP3 and forward to SMTP server

Over the last 12 years, I have created multiple email addresses hosted with Read more

I used to run Exchange 2003 in my test lab. After adding a new 2007 Server (HUB, CAS and Mail) in my AD and moving the mailboxes to the 2007 server, I started seeing problems in my Outlook 2007 Read more

Exchange 2007 offers a set of features that allow for centralized management of policies and limitations. These policies and limitations should help to setup and control mail flow, mailbox sizes, compliance (retention) and so. You'll need an Enterprise CAL Read more