Here is the painful way to convert a Citrix XenServer VM to work on Hyper-V (Hopefully without any BSOD’s!) Firstly its a very good idea to snapshot your VM in the event that this goes wrong and you need to 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 Read more…
SIP ALG can be both useful and a pain. This can become apparent when trying to setup a SIP connection to a PBX on the internet somewhere. Or alternatively, dialling into a local PBX from externally. Many do no realise Read more…
IPv6 is very easy to delegate to your customers if you are an ISP. This streamlines the way your customers connect to your provider edge and into the internet. Lets see the small topology for this tutorial: Here we have 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, Read more…
As we have exhausted all IPv4 addresses it was decided to implement NAT in a lot of areas of the internet. You are probably reading this sat behind a router that is performing a variation of NAT. NAT’s purpose is Read more…
There may come a time where you need to limit the speed of a connection coming through a router. This could be part of an internal network or part of and ISP’s network. I am going to demonstrate this on 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 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 Read more…
This guide will show you how to install Windows Server 2019 onto a Server. In my case, I will demonstrate this in Hyper-V. Downloading the ISO Windows Server can be downloaded from a few different places. If you are using Read more…