Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN Failover How-To

Policy based IPSEC tunneling is probably the most widely used technique to get two offices to communicate securely (at least in the SMB Market). Today I’m going to discuss how you can configure two ASA’s to failover to their secondary WAN, and then have their tunnels fail over as well. One should always aim for …

How to Block All Except Cloudflare From Your Webserver

Today I’m going to show you how to quickly whitelist all of Cloudflare’s prefixes so that direct connection to your site is dropped. My goal in this is to make sure no naughty users ever go through my public IP. Please forgive the ugly bash since I usually just stick to Powershell 🙂   First …

Connect Cisco VIRL to The Internet AND a VMware Virtual Machine

Anyone who talks nerd with me knows I love my subscription to Cisco VIRL. However at some point in your lab you will find that you want a Server 2012/2016 VM, or you just want some dam network connectivity in this lab. Have no fear, flat networks are here. (They always have been). Step 1: …

Server 2003 – Exchange 2007 Export/Archive Mailboxes Before Migrating To Office365

End Goal: Migrate to O365 Problem: A ridiculous amount of accounts to archive that we will not be migrating. Solution: Powershell Pre-reqs: A 32-Bit Machine (I used a Win 7 VM x32) YES IT NEEDS TO BE X32 DUE TO ARCHITECTURE LIMITATIONS Exchange management console x32 (You can do a custom install from the exchange …

Powershell – Advanced Selective Force Password Change AD

  This script forces users to change their password if they haven’t changed it in the last 5 days. I also filtered this by site (OU) in AD. #create all necessary variables $currenttime = get-date $lasttime = $currenttime.AddDays(-5) $changedusers = @() $allsites = @()   #choose users from specific sites and add them to the …