Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (FREE)
Veeam has finally released the sucessor to it’s Veeam Endpoint Backup 1.5, it add’s a lot of new features, and it’s still free, but can also be used in paid editions for workstations and servers. Read...
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Sophos UTM 9.5: Webserver Protection slotmem_create failed
4 days after I upgraded one customer, they started complaining about not being able to reach their websites. Looking into Webserver Protection, all webservers had an yellow exclamation mark on the, and...
View ArticleSophos UTM 9.501-5 released
Sophos has released a big update to UTM 9.5: Up2Date 9.501005 package description: Remarks: System will be rebooted Configuration will be upgraded Connected REDs will perform firmware upgrade...
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Microsoft Exchange: Restart all services with PowerShell
This lille “quickie” can do the job for your,without having to do it manually in service manager #Get List of Microsoft Exchange Services $services = Get-Service | ? { $_.name -like "MSExchange*" -and...
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Active Directory: Changing home folder servername
When migrating filservers and you are using the “Home Folder” setting of an AD user’s object like here: From: To: It would be great just to edit all objects in bulk, with this script, it is possible:...
View ArticleSophos UTM 9.502-4 soft-released
Finally, to make up for the mistake in 9.501, MR2 has been soft-released today: And can be found on the FTP server as usual: ftp://ftp.astaro.de/UTM/v9/up2date/u2d-sys-9.501005-502004.tgz.gpg...
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Sophos UTM: Data disk filling up – due to coredumps
Sometimes Sophos releases updates or patterns that corrupts a function in the UTM and make that function crash! – Everytime a core dump is generated, and that is filling up the data disk. If that...
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Sophos UTM: How to bypass individual WAF rules
How to fix a false positive On Sophos UTM, mod_security can detect a far greater number of attacks, but also experiences a larger number of false positives. If your website is experiencing a lot of...
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Sophos UTM: TCP/UDP Ports used by Sophos RED
When you have the UTM behind another firewall and want to use the RED technology, you will have to NAT the following ports through the perimeter firewall: Note: it has been seen several times that some...
View ArticleSophos UTM 9.503-3 released
Sophos has released 9.503-3 today, you can download it here: ftp://ftp.astaro.com/UTM/v9/up2date/u2d-sys-9.502004-503003.tgz.gpg Release notes: Up2Date 9.503003 package description: Remarks: System...
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martinsblog.dk is now SSL protected
To harden the communication to this site and it’s input forms, SSL has been added. Also Google Chrome will no longer display a warning that the site is not secure
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Sophos UTM: Setting up DKIM for mail security
Sophos UTM mail security has many features, it also supports DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), which allows the UTM to cryptographically sign outgoing messages. Unfortunately it’s not “that” easy to...
View ArticleSophos UTM 9.503-4 released
Due to a little bug with samba and missing libraries, that will get you into problems with AD join, Sophos has released a minor update for that problem in particlular: Up2Date 9.503004 package...
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PLESK: Enable passive FTP ports
When you have first installed Plesk Onyx, and you have forwarded port 20,21 to your Plesk server, you will find that the client is being redirected to passive ports, theese ports needs to be defined in...
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Remote Desktop: How and why you want to sign your RDP file
When you have your Remote Desktop farm spinning with connection broker and the right certificates, all should be over with the certificate warnings…..ehh should?? You create a RDP profile for your...
View ArticleSophos SUM: Update 4.306-3 released
Sophos has released a new update GA, which will fix some minor issues with SUM. Release notes: Up2Date 4.306003 package description: Remark: System will be rebooted News: Maintenance Release Bugfix:...
View ArticleSophos XG firewall: SFOS v17.0 beta2 released
Finally XG 17 is moving towards something useable, beta2 has been released, and you now get a somewhat stable environment now: Read all about it here:...
View ArticleSophos XG Firewall v17 Release Candidate is out now!
Hooray! Finally it’s there, are you ready to onboard? I think they have gone a long way, but it looks promising, even though I am a faithfully UTM user, I just have to admit, that Sophos is not...
View ArticleSophos UTM: Up2date 9.504-1 released
Sophos has released a minor fix, but an important on today as GA: Release notes: Up2Date 9.504001 package description: Remarks: System will be rebooted Configuration will be upgraded Connected REDs...
View ArticlePLESK: Disable mail for just one domain
If you have a user on Plesk, that has his own mailserver, and when sending mails from Plesk, you will get errors, because Plesk thinks it’s responsible for handling mail for the domain, you can disable...
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