In today’s interconnected digital landscape, safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining robust security measures is paramount for businesses of all sizes. For organizations utilizing Microsoft Active Directory, implementing a tiering model can provide a structured approach to securing critical assets and

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Quality of Service (QoS) is a fundamental technology in networks that require reliable and predictable data delivery. It allows for traffic prioritization and management, ensuring that critical applications and services function at their best. At the heart of QoS lies

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In the grand tapestry of the internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays the pivotal role of the postal service, ensuring data packets are delivered through the most efficient routes across autonomous systems (AS). Understanding how BGP makes routing decisions is

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Initiating Debug Mode To kick off debug logging from the get-go, prepend your rsyslog.conf file with these lines. This ensures debug logging activates immediately upon the rsyslog service launching: After implementing the above and restarting rsyslog, it will start generating

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When using domain services through a firewall the RPC ports must be limited from the range 1025-65535 to specific ports. Windows registry settings, must be implemented at least on domain controllers. It can be a advantage to implement the RPC

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As businesses increasingly rely on digital services and technologies, the need for reliable and available systems has never been more critical. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) play a pivotal role in ensuring the performance and availability of these systems. One key

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Maintenance Mode indicates that the system is unable to detect the hard drives, the hard drives cannot be correctly mounted, or the disk is experiencing corruption. If the hard drives have no physical issues this can be fixed by repairing

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First install socat Execute the following command where <backend> and <Server> are replaced Example We can verify the servers with socat with the following command We get the following output We can see the srv_op_state has changed to the value

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Execute the following command, change the timesource to a FQDN or an IP Address Stop time Service unregister and register time service Start time Service Open a Command Prompt. Type the following command and then press ENTER: Type the following

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