Azure – User Defined Routing for one subnet with PFsense

My goal: Setup a pfsense in azure so I can route all my traffic through that. I didn’t want two subnets for this since I already had my VMs deployed. I also wanted to get over the “only 1 ikev1 tunnel” in Azure. I was setting up site to site VPNs with Meraki MX64s which …

Azure to Sophos UTM Site to Site VPN IPSEC Settings ( IKEv1 Policy Based)

The Sophos UTM Azure Policy: The sophos UTM Azure Remote Gateway: notes: the pre-shared key should match on both sides, the gateway object should be the public IP assigned to your gateway.   When creating your Azure Virtual network gateway, you must choose policy-based VPN, NOT route-based. Policy based is IKEv1, while route based is …

Microsoft AD DNS – How to force Google Safe Search

Forcing safe-search for Google is very simple, and pretty hard to turn off. Couple it together with filtering DNS queries and you’ve got yourself a pretty robust content filter. First I’m going to show you the powershell way (run powershell as admin), then I will show you the GUI way.   add-dnsserverprimaryzone -ReplicationScope Forest -Name …

Windows 7 – Mount multiple ISOs to Directory with Powershell for Free

So I’m in a situation where I need over 30 ISOs mounted on reboot to folders. Luckily PISMO file mount does this perfectly! http://pismotec.com/ They even provide command line support for their software. That means we can script something small with powershell. My goal was that all my ISOs get mounted to the same directories …

MDT – Slipstream Windows Updates into Boot Image with Powershell

The below powershell script will mount your .wim file from your deployment share, to C:\mount (make sure that folder exists). Then it will get updates that you extracted from a Fully updated Windows machine. Those updates can be found in C:\windows\softwaredistribution\ (then copy them to your MDT server so you can slipstream them) . Once you have …