Cisco ASA VTI (9.7) Route Based VPN with load-balancing and failover – Setup Guide

With code 9.7 released Cisco decided to add two VERY important features. Route based VPN with VTIs, and bridge groups! This article will show a quick configuration of a route based VPN with ASAs! Previously to do something like this you would need to build a GRE tunnel over IPSEC with a second router terminating …

Cisco ASA – AnyConnect VPN with Active Directory Authentication Complete Setup Guide

This article will discuss setting up Cisco Anyconnect with LDAP/Domain Authentication. I will be showing both the ASDM/GUI and CLI commands. I recommend the GUI method once, then use the CLI once you understand it. Replace the following below with your own: "10.0.1.10" with your AD/DNS Server "DC=SDC,DC=LOCAL" with the base DN of your Domain, my …

Cisco ASA to Palo Alto Site to Site IPSEC VPN Failover

  Today I'm going to show you exactly how to configure IPSEC failover between a Cisco ASA and A Palo Alto. Network: 1 ASA, 2 wan circuits 1 Palo, 1 wan circuit     Let's assume at the ASA side 20.0.3.2 is our primary WAN circuit and 20.0.4.2 is the backup circuit we have just …

OneLogin and JAMF/Casper Suite SSO Setup

I have a project to implement SSO for hosted JAMF/Casper Suite. First I setup the OneLogin virtual LDAP connection to JAMF. Then I found out there's no way to mass import users. This was important to me because I wanted users to be able to self enroll with AD credentials. I didn't want to import …

Cisco ASA 5506-X Complete Wan Failover Guide

The situation: Company XYZ has decided to invest in a new internet connection, this connection should be used as a backup. The new WAN connection has been plugged into interface g0/8 of our 5506-X and we are ready to begin the configuration. The solution from the CLI:   Go into the interface Conf t Int …

Powershell GUI – Easily Control RDP Sessions in a collection

The problem: I didn't want to have to open up server manager and add the connection broker just to remote into users. I needed something seamless. The script/solution: Because out-gridview with -passthru is the coolest powershell command in the freaking world!   import-module remotedesktop $cbserver = "yourconnectionbroker.domain.local" $id = get-rdusersession -ConnectionBroker $cbserver | Out-GridView -title …