This post is to document the process of configuring Guest WIFI using Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), ideally you would configure a Anchor WLC in a DMZ and use EoIP tunnel to send all guest traffic to anchor controller. However, in this example, we only have a HA pair of WLC without the luxury of […]
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This post is to document the process to configure DHCP option 119 in Windows DHCP Server and Cisco Switch. Environment Windows Server 2022 Domain Controller with DHCP roles configured Windows 10 devices on the end user side Multiple Domains with two-way trust configured DNS Suffix needs to be configure for both domains: ICTFella.com and DomainAA.com
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This post is to document the process of retrieving BitLocker Recovery Key from Azure Active Directory. Environment The Device joined Azure Active Directory, and BitLocker was enabled The device’s hard drive (SSD) is pulled out and repurposed on an another machine The Administrator cannot find out who this original owner was. We have Global Admin
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This post is to demonstrate the process to Configure FileZilla FTP Server with Fortigate Firewall. FileZilla Server configuration Connection configuration Auto-ban configuration Passive mode port range FTP user configuration Fortinet FortiGate Firewall configuration In virtual IP configuration, we have dedicated public IP, hence 1 to 1 Static NAT is used Firewall Policy configuration Common Error
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This post is to fix the Mimecast Contacts Export Tool “fail to authenticate” error. Environment Microsoft Office365 with Exchange Online Only (there is no on-premise Exchange) Mimecast Contacts Export tool is used to gather all the permit sender email address list “Fail to authenticate” error pops out while logging into the Mimecast Contact Export tool
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This post is to demonstrate the process to configure hMailServer as an email relay with Microsoft Office 365. You then can point your SMTP of applications, printers, device alerting etc to this server for reporting, Scan-to-Email, and email alerting. Issue We used to configure SMTP within IIS as an SMTP replay server to work with
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This post is to demonstrate the process to configure the Cisco switch or router device to back up the Cisco configuration file automatically to the FTP server. Environment Cisco Catalyst 9000 switch, works on Cisco routers as well Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 FTP application: Filezilla Server Application Configure Filezilla FTP server Assume you have
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This post is to demonstrate the quick steps to configure port forwarding / Destination NAT on the Fortinet Fortigate firewall. Environment Fortinet Fortigate firewall. ISP has provided a /29 range of the public IP addresses. The requirement is to open port 443 from specific public IP addresses, not the whole internet. Configure Virtual IP or
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This post is to document the process to manage the secondary Fortigate firewall in a HA firewall cluster, as well as the process to shut down the Fortigate firewall using CLI. This process comes in handy if you are using the same interface for both data and management traffic for the HA pair. Manage the
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This post is to document the process to configure static IPsec VPN between Fortinet and Sophos Firewall. Environment 1x Fortinet Fortigate Firewall cluster running at active-passive mode 1x Sophos UTM Firewall Both sides have static public IP assigned Phase 1 and Phase 2 use the same encryption (AES256) and authentication (SHA256) algorithm, Group 14 or
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