This year we decided to try growing a “Giant Pumpkin”. We knew nothing about giant pumpkin growing so did a bit a reading and research but still made way to many mistakes so not sure what we will end up with. I began by reading Growing Giant Pumpkins by Jason Johns this gave me a …
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Two Rules For Fortigate Beginners
After managing a small number of Fortigates for a handful of years I have came up with two rules that I wished I would have known when I started. There are numerous best practices but these two have caused me the most pain recently. Never install a dot zero release of the Fortigate firmware and …
Azure Application Insights On-Prem Web Farm
On each of the nodes of the web farm with a shared config run the following commands. Download: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.ApplicationMonitor/ After the commands have been run go into IIS on one of the machines in the web farm and add a module with name ManagedHttpModuleHelper pointing to Microsoft.AppInsights.IIS.ManagedHttpModuleHelper.ManagedHttpModuleHelper in the dropdown box. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/status-monitor-v2-overview
Vmware workstation error code 0xc00000005
Kept getting error code 0xc00000005 when trying to install windows 2019 as a guest on VMware workstation. I uninstalled and tried VirtualBox and got a different error. Searching the log files lead me to the following post about hyper-v interference. I had uninstalled Hyper-v but there must have been some hyper-v feature left. The following …
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Finally passing the CISSP certification
After multiple starts and stops I finally was forced to take the CISSP November 23rd as I was not able to postpone the cert further. I have been working as a sysadmin/security analyst in a single location for over 20 years. When working at the same job for so long, there is a risk of …
Fortigate to Fortigate VXLAN – Disaster Recovery
Been working on a solution for a disaster recovery one of the goals was a stretched layer 2 network. Since we would need a similar firewall with similar rules at the DR location I have been investigating vxlan over and IPSEC tunnel. This is the current test config I will update it when more testing …
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Packet Capture without Wireshark
I needed to capture packets off a production web server but did not want to add additional unnecessary software to production like wireshark or similar. I came across some dated articles on Netsh that looked promising. But the tool used to convert to packet capture seemed to be deprecated. Luckily the following tool allows you …