So I hope you haven’t bothered to read my 2000 word epic about this that I’ve been working on for weeks. It’s essentially a very long laundry list of things that don’t work. After getting VMWare involved I did think however that we might both figure it out, or at least get some pointers. This was until today, when they
I’m writing this one because I’ve faced quite a few gotchas, and I’m still not there yet. The basic theory is to take a whole bunch of servers that I currently run and make them into virtual machines that can be moved around and generally make more efficient use of the infrastructure we currently have. None of the current servers
We use an SSL certificate to increase the trust level around our email servers, one of the most important services we use! Unfortunately, to establish this trust, users are required to take some action when a certificate is renewed, or some host settings don’t match. This is one of the things that causes a huge amount of grief, and here’s
Now this isn’t going to be a normal post where I pretend that I know what I’m doing. However it was time to upgrade our installation of Web Help Desk and I figured I would also upgrade MySQL, because they finally fixed a bug where the the server would not launch on boot. This caused more than a few heart
We’ve previously gone over the steps needed to set up and configure an email account hosted by Servicemax here, but one thing that seems to happen a lot is people can’t send email after the setup. So we’re doing another guide to try to make this easier, and easier to troubleshoot. If you haven’t set up the email address already,
I’ve just spent a couple of weeks fighting with a very frustrating problem- setting up VPN passthrough on a Netgear DGND3700v2. This is a reasonably high end device (for Netgear) and actually contains the ability to terminate VPN endpoints. However the built in VPN server does not support the built in VPN software in the Mac OS, and you have
This product used to be known as Adware Medic but has recently been acquired by Malwarebytes. They now have a free home use version and several different paid products for business. I used the home version to test. I don’t currently use antivirus on my machine- Sophos was the last product used but it was removed when it went crazy
If you’ve been reading recent posts you would know that LogMeIn wanted to charge me a huge amount of money for my latest subscription. So I’ve been playing with ScreenConnect and really liking it. I’m not all that keen to run a machine to host this simple service, which an on-prem install currently requires but at some point in the
This $2.50 (Aus) tool from the app store will help you to configure RADIUS (technically FreeRADIUS) that is included with Server.app for Yosemite. RADIUS, just like LDAP, is an open standard for authenticating users to a central database. You could potentially make your WiFi much more secure by implementing 802.11x which leverages RADIUS to auth back to your directory server.
A lot of software and hardware now comes with the ability to send email alerts when things happen. Recently I’ve installed Filemaker Pro Server, Carbon Copy Cloner, a LaCie RAID and a WordPress Plugin that can all let me know when something has gone wrong, or perhaps right. Mac OS X Server also does this. You don’t really want to
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