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Check Point: Enable SSL Encryption for LDAP Accounts

Background: Check Point users faced an issue when they wanted to change their expired passwords when logging into to the VPN via the SecureClient. Although they had been prompted to change password their attempts were not successful. I did some investigation into this and discovered that SSL needs to be allowed for LDAP communication for […]

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Tech Short Q&A: What is vCenter Single Sign-On For

What is vCenter Single Sign-On? vCenter Single Sign-On is a feature of VMware vCenter 5, 6 and future vCenter implementations that is an authentication broker which also creates security tokens providing a secure way of accessing your environments. This token exchange mechanism is far superior than the former requirement of each component authenticating separately with a directory service such […]

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Saved Queries feature in Active Directory

This post focuses on custom queries that  allow you to perform additional tasks in Active Directory Microsoft in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is a wonderful tool and is very useful when it comes to managing user / and computer accounts in your Domain.  It also has another feature which doesn’t get used often.  The […]