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The advent of switched networks resulted in Network IDS having great difficulty in promiscuously monitoring their networks. This was overcome by configuring a switch to replicate the data from all ports or VLAN’s onto a single port. This function has a multitude of names including; Port Mirroring, Monitoring Port, Spanning Port, SPAN port and Link Mode port. Port Mirroring generally indicates the ability to copy the traffic from a single …

Purely Cloud Storage Area Network (SAN) includes high availability mechanisms that are familiar if you are like the 80% of the array market that uses dual-controller array approaches. It optimizes data safety, but there might be a few seconds of VM inactivity during component failover. If a host substantially fails with Hyper-V HA, a VM will be restarted on another host, and the data should be moved to the new …

When you’re provisioning the User Profile Service (UPS), you can synchronize user profile information using the User Profile Synchronization Service. This TechNet articledescribes the steps required for configuring profile synchronization in SharePoint Server 2013. Synchronization between AD and SharePoint should be done using a domain account, called the synchronization account, i.e. DOMAIN\SP_UserSync. This synchronization account requires Replicate Directory Change permissions on the domain, in order to interrogate AD about “what …

The case for using 2048 bits instead of 4096 bits Some hardware (many smart cards, some card readers, and some other devices such as Polycom phones) don’t support anything bigger than 2048 bits. Uses less CPU than a longer key during encryption and authentication Using less CPU means using less battery drain (important for mobile devices) Uses less storage space: while not an issue on disk, this can be an …

How to Setup Office 365 Public Folders Public folders were a prime function of Exchange 2003, but were slowly deemphasized over the years. On the newest version of Office 365 public folders make a prominent appearance on the Exchange administrator ECP page. Public folders are a way to allow all exchange users in the company to share and view items. Once configured, they show up automatically in all versions of …