VRFs are an excellent tool for Layer 3 separation on a router. Allowing you to separate routing domains and control where traffic can be routed, much like VLANs on a Switch. VRFs are also required for MPLS L3VPN deployments. There may be a requirement for you to leak routes from Read more…
In the last section, we configured FSSO and setup the Groups on the FortiGate to interface with the FSSO Groups. Now, we will Setup the web proxy and policies for the proxy too. First, we need to enable the Explicit Proxy within the FortiGate. To do this, select ‘Feature Visibility’ Read more…
FSSO is a mechanism that allows a FortiGate to know who is logged into a domain joined computer, and transparently assign the device policies based on that users attributes (like group membership). This is fully transparent to users as the processing is done between the Domain Controller and the FortiGate. Read more…
Changing an AD Domain name may sound complicated but depending on your setup it not be. My Environment: LAB-DC01 – 10.1.21.252 Changing the domain from lab.local to ad.avidpontoon.co.uk First, create a new primary DNS forward lookup zone for the new domain name, accepting the defaults. Open an admin CMD prompt Read more…
With the IPv4 public address space running out very fast, we will soon be adopting IPv6. Many enterprises and ISP’s are already using IPv6 in their core networks. When the rest of the world come to adopt this new technology, you will need to know how to configure interfaces and Read more…
This guide will show how to install Windows Server and MDT Installing Windows Server To install Server, you first need to obtain an ISO. This will either be through the Microsoft website or your organisations Volume Activation portal. Make sure that you download the latest version to ensure the security Read more…
Many companies will have internal servers that need to be accessed outside of the organisation. These could be web servers or mail servers. Here I will show how to configure a Cisco router to map your internal servers to an external IP provided by your ISP using Network Address Translation Read more…