NGINX: Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
KB ID 0001617 Problem Rather by accident I discovered this was not working on the site. I know it used to work, but when the old certificate expired last year I was on holiday in The States, and had a panic trying to disable https, (to keep the site up until I got back and bought a new cert). So I’m guessing its been broken since then. Solution I spent about two days looking at forums about how to do this, and every time I...
Microsoft Exchange – Forwarding Mail To External Email Addresses
KB ID 0001350 Problem Note: Below I’m using Exchange 2016, but the same approach will work for previous versions. There are a load of reasons why you might want to do this, but before you go off in this direction consider why you are doing this in the first place. For example, if the user requesting this does not need an Exchange mailbox, i.e. because they only use their Gmail account then it’s probably a better idea to...
SEM – SPAMfighter Exchange Module – Installation and Configuration with Exchange 2013
KB ID 0000824 Problem “I seem to get a lot of spam”, and “I get a lot more spam than I used to” are right up there with “My computer is running slow”. It’s a problem that, eats up users time and fills your mail stores with junk, and time/disk space costs money. SEM is tiny! In a world where a graphics driver is now over 100MB the entire install suite is less than 11MB. This is going into my...
Exchange – Redirect OWA (HTTP to HTTPS)
KB ID 0000697 Problem Out of the box, Exchange (quite rightly) secures Outlook Web Access so that you have to access it via https. The problem is some of your users are used to accessing websites via http, (or simply typing a URL in their browser, without typing any prefix, so it defaults to http). If you try and access OWA via http://server.domain.com/owa.. There are a number of ways to get round this, the simplest is to redirect...
Redirect AnyConnect Browser Connections From HTTP to HTTPS
KB ID 0000707 Problem AnyConnect, is great for users, but most of them are not used to typing full URL’s into their browsers. Modern browsers will prefix your URL with ‘http://’ for you. That’s brilliant most of the time, but AnyConnect and SSL VPN need to go to ‘https://’. Wouldn’t it be good if your users typed vpn.petenetlive.com into their browsers, and instead of the browser...