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Delegating AD Admin tasks to non-Admin accounts

Designing a distributed/international Active Directory is certainly the most important piece of a successful AD implementation. One of the issues that should be dealt with is whether you want to allow other people to be Enterprise/Domain Admin or not. Read more

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How to restore a Windows 2003 DC using ASR and VMWare

The following procedure should work for any type of hardware, but I've used VMWare (so this procedure is also valid if you want to convert a physical Domain Controller to VMWare). Additionally, the procedure works for Windows 2003 server, Read more

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AD 2003 DC Restore Technique using VMWare (without having to grant local DC/Domain Admin rights)

In certain distributed AD scenario's, Domain Admins group membership or local DC admin privileges are restricted to certain people only. This is a good thing to do, but it requires you to think about certain issues before they happen.

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Moving VMWare server/workstation .vmdk to ESX Server

While finishing the setup of my VMWare ESX infrastructure, I needed to move a couple of virtual machines from a VMWare Server (running on Windows XP) to my ESX server. Migrating most of those machines was relatively easy : Read more

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Creating and installing lzm modules in Backtrack 2

Today, I will explain how you can create your own lzm modules & patch the backtrack 2 final ISO file (by adding your new module).

First of all, get a fresh copy of the bt2final.iso file from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html

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How to manually install Dameware Remote client

Manual Installation Instructions:

You can manually install the Dameware Mini Remote Control Client Agent Service (DWRCS.EXE) on any machine, by simply coping the required files to the appropriate directory on the remote machine, and then executing a simple command Read more

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Connect to Openfiler SAN using CHAP authentication (MS iSCSI Initiator)

Assuming that you've made yourself familiar with the procedure on how to allow/deny access to a specific lun based upon IP addresses, then you might have wondered if you can secure access to a LUN even more. After all, Read more

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Bind network interfaces on Linux for redundancy, load balancing and performance

If you have multiple network interfaces in your linux machine (and ideally they have the same speed & duplex), you may want to 'bind' the adapters together to increase bandwidth and create some redundancy.

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Running Snort with Dynamic IP on Fedora

One of my Linux boxes has a direct cable connection to the internet. I've been using Snort in corporate environments for a long time now, but I never had to configure snort to look at interfaces that have a Read more

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How to mount an Openfiler snapshot in Windows

After playing with Openfiler for a while, I started wondering how I could get access to a snapshot that was created with Openfiler.

This is how it works (according to me, I just hope Openfiler and iSCSI Enterprise Target Read more

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