If you are using Hyper-V and running a Ubuntu 18.04 guest, you may not be aware that Microsoft provides Linux Integration Services (LIS), which are basically Microsoft’s version of VMware Tools. In this article we will detail how to enable LIS on our Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine. The first step is to edit the “modules”… Read More
If you read our previous article Easy Debian Server Firewall, then you may have noted that on Debian Stretch the described method no longer works. This is due to systemd. In the article below we will walk through creating a persistent IPTables based firewall on Debian Stretch. First we need to install some required software… Read More
If you are running a vanilla install of Debian 9, you may know that the Linux Kernel version is 4.9 out of the box. While this kernel is certainly not old, if you are running on a newer laptop or netbook, you may want to go with a newer Kernel to support your hardware. In… Read More
If you are running a vanilla install of MailCleaner, you may know that the Linux Kernel version is 3.16 out of the box. While this kernel is certainly not old, if you are running on newer hardware, you may want to go with a newer Kernel to support your hardware. In this tutorial we are… Read More
If you are running a MailCleaner Anti Spam Gateway in your organization, than chances are good that at least once someone has tried to brute force a sasl login to your server. Below we will configure Fail2ban to easily prevent an sasl brute force attack by blocking the offending IP address after a set number… Read More
Are you running a MailCleaner Anti Spam Gateway on your network? If that is the case, you may have other systems that could benefit from directly connecting to the MySQL instance on you MailCleaner Server. Below is our MailCleaner MySQL configuration script that will set the MySQL root password and add the proper firewall rules to… Read More
MailCleaner Virtual Appliance is a full business anti spam software solution, including the operating system, anti-virus, anti-spam and a complete administration environment. It is installed on the hardware or Virtual machine of your choice ( VMWare, Xen Citrix, Proxmox, KVM, Hyper-V,… ) to create a veritable anti spam filtering appliance gateway. MailCleaner implements a number… Read More
Kopano Collaboration Platform is the email server of choice for our new customers. With that said, we have a lot of these installations being maintained in production. Below is our first generation automation script to update the Kopano WebApp to the latest 3.4.x release for users who are not using apt-get. Note this script is… Read More
Kopano Collaboration Platform is the email server of choice for our new customers. With that said, we have a lot of these installations being maintained in production. Below is our first generation automation script to update Kopano to the latest 8.4.x release for users who are not using apt-get. Note this script is a modified… Read More
In this article we will address one of the common problems that you may find when running Redhat or CentOS as a Hyper-V guest. Typically you would be able to set the screen resolution of your Hyper-V Guest using the GUI however if you are running a Server with no GUI, setting the screen resolution… Read More