Free Certificate for IIS with Let’s Encrypt
KB ID 0001736 Problem I’ve been aware of Let’s Encrypt for a while, they are a non profit Certification Authority, who will provide you with a free certificate, and you can use them for most things you want to secure with a digital certificate. The only reason I’ve never used them in the past is, their certificates have a short (3 month) lifespan, and I see enough things breaking when people forget to renew 12 month...
Outlook URL Shortening?
KB ID 0001735 Problem Outlook URL: I first noticed this a few weeks ago, When copying and pasting a URL into an email it shortens the URL and gives it the pages title. At first i thought my firms Devs had changed the way our CRM works, but then I noticed it happening with SharePoint URLs as well, this is what I mean; I don’t have a problem with it, in fact I much prefer it! However I got an email this morning from someone...
FortiGate Securing Remote Administration
KB ID 0001734 Problem When considering Securing FortiGate remote administration, I’ve written about changing the https management port to something other than TCP 443 before, I suppose that’s security by obfuscation (though even a script kiddy with one hours experience, will be able to spot an html responses). Typically with other vendors you limit remote administration access, to specific IP addresses (or ranges). So...
FortiGate LDAPS Authentication Failure
KB ID 0001733 Problem Here’s a brief one that tripped me up a couple of weeks ago, I was deploying FortiGate LDAPS authentication for some FortiClient SSL VPN connections into a FortiGate firewall like so; Despite my best efforts I was getting authentication failures? If I tested the username and password in the GUI web management portal, that worked fine? Testing FortiGate LDAPS First step is to test authentication at command...
Windows File Server Migration (Maintain Share & NTFS Permissions)
KB ID 0001201 Problem When attempting a File Server Migration why isn’t this better publicised? Did you know Microsoft have a set of Migration tools, and one of them is for file servers? Now traditionally I’d use RoboCopy or XCopy to migrate files and folders, and for ‘User Profiles’ I would normally back them up, and restore them to the new server. This is because the file permissions on ‘correctly...