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
In the article below we will detail the steps required to create a bootable firmware update USB drive for your Dell PowerEdge C6100 Server using Rufus. Using this drive, you will be able to update your BIOS, BMC and FCB firmware. This tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of using DOS. Open Rufus to… Read More
If you are using a Pfsense Firewall, then you are probably aware that access to the management interface is allowed by default from all interfaces except the WAN. To enhance the security of your network, in many environments access to the management interface should be limited with the use of firewall rules. For reasons as to… Read More
In this article we are going to show you how to breath some new life into your 2011 era ASUS RT-N56U Router. This topic came about after purchasing one of these routers off Craigslist for a friend in need of a router upgrade. Now to be completely honest, I originally purchased the router thinking I… Read More
Duplicati was designed for online backups from scratch. It is not only data efficient but also handles network issues nicely. E.g. interrupted backups can be resumed and Duplicati tests the content of backups regularly. That way broken backups on corrupt storage systems can be detected before it’s too late. Backup files and folders with strong… Read More