How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM
There was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM. While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such…
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Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Updating VMware Operations Manager vApp
Recently with all of the bug fixes and security updates coming out from VMware and others due to Ghost vulnerability, etc, I decided among other VMware updates to update the…
VMware announces vSphere 6, vSAN 6
Below are notes I took during yesterday’s announcement from VMware in their live event: Vmware’s Announcement for Software defined Datacenter – OneCloud Four components: • vSphere • Network • Virtualized…
OBiON softphone Busy Signal Fix
Recently, I purchased an Obi200 VOIP device for home. I have to say that I have been thoroughly impressed with this little VOIP box. I think for anyone who wants…
How to upgrade VMware Operations Manager VM Tools
In rolling out the latest vCenter and ESXi host updates that have come about in the last couple of days, the other part of that step is making sure that…
Updating VMware vCenter Appliance 5.5 to 5.5 Update 2d
For smaller environments the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter. The update process to keep the appliance up to date…
How to Increase Home Network Security
Let’s face it, these days, our digital security is under attack just about anywhere we are and access our data. However, we may not think about security when we are…
SQL 2014 Setup there was an error generating XML document
A couple of days ago, a fellow colleague was setting up a VM with SQL and then Microsoft Dynamics or that was the plan. The VM was relatively clean with…
How to connect Shrew Soft VPN client to Sophos IPsec VPN
So far I have really been impressed with the features and power of the Sophos UTM appliance. I have ran it both in a software based applianced running on a…
Sophos UTM vs Untangle
UTM or Unified Threat Management devices are becoming more and more popular as businesses and corporations have realized in the past couple of years that a simple tradition firewall of…