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    Expand A Drive On Virtualized Windows 2008

    I CAN’T belive how easy this was…Just crazy. Basically, you enter vSphere and expand the HD. Enter the server’s disk management and refresh. Click expand on the drive you want to expand, click next a couple of times…and you are DONE! Just follow these quick and easy steps here on petri.co.il.

  • Free Branch Circuit Monitoring(BCM) Collection And Billing
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    Free Branch Circuit Monitoring(BCM) Collection And Billing

    Branch Circuit Monitoring(BCM) is basically monitoring how much amperage is flowing through your electrical circuits. Every major electrical PDU/RPP vendor sells these. They have small current transformer(CT) rings that you run the hot side of your power through and then into the breaker. These BCMs generally have a Modbus interface. It is generally Modbus RTU,…

  • Rogue Access Point Detection/Mitigation
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    Rogue Access Point Detection/Mitigation

    This is the article relating to my 2011 MUM presentation. I was trying to think of something fun and different for this year’s MUM, so I came up with rogue access point detection/mitigation. The project surrounds having a Mikrotik probe connect to any open access points it can find. It then trys to access a…

  • TekRadius – A Windows Radius Server
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    TekRadius – A Windows Radius Server

    TekRadius is a Windows radius server built on the .net platform. It natively supports IETF/Cisco/Mikrotik which is nifty. I know the first thing that pops into mind is why wouldn’t you just use the Windows radius server (IAS). To this I say because IAS requires you to create windows users to authenticate with the server.…

  • Reset Windows Passwords Offline

    It’s been ages since I’ve had to do this, but for those of you in need, check out this bootable iso. You pop it in and follow the on screen prompts which will quickly allow you to clear or change any local windows account. Use at your own risk, though 🙂

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    Apache – IP Address Restrictions

    I wanted to protect my web-meetme folder on my trixbox install, so I made a couple of allowances in the apache config file like so. <Directory /var/www/html/web-meetme> #Order allow,deny Order deny,allow deny from all allow from 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 allow from 1.1.1.1/255.255.255.255 </Directory> Note the allow/deny entries.

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    Add An AUP(Acceptable Use Policy) To Your Windows Machine

    If you are on a domain you can simply do this with group policy. If you are doing it on a machine you just log into locally you use the local group policy editor: Start => Run => gpedit.msc Computer Config => Windows Settings => Security Settings => Local Settings => Security Options Interactive logon:…