Today I will be writing about creating a Site to Site (S2S) Virtual Private Network from your Azure virtual network to your on-premises network without the need to use a dedicated VPN hardware device. Requirements: active Azure subscription Azure Resource Group Azure virtual network on-premises VM to install Windows Server 2019 proper firewall settings....
System Center Virtual Machine Manager ports and protocols.
Port and protocol exceptions Connect Port/protocol Details Configure VMM server to VMM agent on Windows Server-based hosts/remote library server 80: WinRM; 135: RPC; 139: NetBIOS; 445: SMB (over TCP) Used by the VMM agent Inbound rule on hosts Can’t modify VMM server to VMM agent on Windows Server-based hosts/remote library server 443:HTTPS BITS data...
“Watch” command in Windows
These days I needed to be able to check on the execution of a repetitive task. If I would use linux I could use the watch command but I am a Windows guy. So I came up with an alternative – I created a bat file with the below content: To change the duration...
Finding the WSUS server from which updates are downloaded
Open an administrative command prompt and type: Reg query „HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate” /s |findstr „WUServer” The result is something like below: WUServer REG_SZ http://wsusservername.domain.comUseWUServer REG_DWORD 0x1 Done!
Cool study about cybersecurity trends
Stumbled across a very interesting study “Considerations on Challenges and Future Directions in Cybersecurity” by the National CyberInt and CERT-RO organizations. It can be accessed here: https://cert.ro/doc/CybersecurityRO2019.pdf Take time to read it as it is quite detailed and very long.