Exchange 2000 / 2003 – 1 User, 2 Email Addresses, 2 Mailbox’s
Nov17

Exchange 2000 / 2003 – 1 User, 2 Email Addresses, 2 Mailbox’s

KB ID 0000086 Problem The title may be a little misleading 🙂 1 user cannot have 2 mailbox’s (NOTE a user can have many email addresses but only 1 of those addresses is the PRIMARY address so if he/she sends some mail the primary address will be the SENT FROM address for a SINGLE mailbox). For most people that’s fine, BUT what happens if you want to be able to send AND receive as bob@acme.co.uk AND robert@doodar.biz as two...

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Cisco Simple GRE Tunnels (With IPSEC)

KB ID 0000951 Problem I’ve spent years setting up VPN tunnels between firewalls. The only time I’ve ever dealt with GRE is for letting VPN client software though firewalls. GRE’s job is to ‘encapsulate’ other protocols and transport those protocols inside a virtual point to point link. Below is the topology, I’m going to use. The tunnel will run form Router R1 to Router R3, once complete I should be...

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Replace an ASA 5505 with an ASA 5506-X
Nov17

Replace an ASA 5505 with an ASA 5506-X

KB ID 0001091  Problem Given the amount of ASA work I do it’s surprising that the first time I saw an ASA 5506-X was last week (I’ve been working on larger firewalls for a while). I’m probably going to have to do a few of these over the next couple of years so I’ll update this article as things surface. Solution Q: Can I just copy the config from an ASA 5505 to an ASA 5506-X? A: No, that would be nice, truth be...

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