How to Deploy Sophos for Virtual Environments – VMware

How to Deploy Sophos for Virtual Environments – VMware

Sophos for Virtual Environments delivers central security for VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines. Sophos VE provides real-time protection at peak performance by off-loading threat detection to a centralized security virtual machine. In this walk-through, we will be installing the Sophos Security VM in a VMware environment, deploy the Guest VM agent to protected machines, and test real-time protection. Install Sophos Security VM To begin, download the Sophos for Virtual Environments executable from Sophos Central. Run the SVE_ESXi_c_sfx.exe from a machine…

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Configure Cisco UCS SMTP Sender Address

Configure Cisco UCS SMTP Sender Address

Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) has the ability to notify admins of server issues via SMTP e-mail alerts. If you leverage this capability in your environment, you might find yourself needing to specify the SMTP From address. By default, the mail alert sender address is CIMChostname@cisco.com (IE. C220-WZP1234567@cisco.com). This is potentially problematic in organizations that utilize direct send (Office 365) or SMTP relay servers to pass authentication. Direct send has a tendency to mark such addresses as spam and relay…

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Check Skype for Business Call Quality

Check Skype for Business Call Quality

Experiencing Skype for Business call quality issues? Without knowing where to look, troubleshooting which connection is causing problems can be difficult. In this post, we will show you where you can find call quality logs from the Microsoft Admin Center. Troubleshoot Skype for Business Call Quality From the Microsoft Admin Center, navigate to Teams and Skype Admin Center. If you don’t see Teams and Skype, locate Teams. From the Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Admin Center, select the Users…

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Restore Deleted AD/Office 365 User in AD Connect Environment

Restore Deleted AD/Office 365 User in AD Connect Environment

In this post, we will walk through the process of restoring a deleted user in an environment that leverages Directory Sync/Azure AD Connect. The process isn’t overly intensive – It entails restoring the deleted user in Office 365, restoring the Active Directory account, and performing a hard match between the on-prem and cloud account. In our case, we will restore the Active Directory object from Veeam as the environment did not have the AD recycle bin enabled. Restore Deleted User…

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AutoLab vSphere 6.7 Deployment on Ravello

AutoLab vSphere 6.7 Deployment on Ravello

A few months back, AutoLab announced the release of version 3.0 which added support for vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 as well as Windows Server 2016. LabGuides.com provides a great vSphere Deployment Guide for multiple platforms (Workstation, Fusion, Player, ESXi, Ravello). In this post, I wanted to focus solely on a vSphere 6.7 lab deployment utilizing Ravello as the underlying platform. Background – If you are unfamiliar with AutoLab, it is a deployment kit which automates the build of a nested…

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