RadioCuba Tech Tips (RTT)

Looking for a viable FTP solution with web functionality and enterprise grade feature-set. http://www.zftpserver.com/ http://www.wftpserver.com/ http://brickftp.com http://www.cerberusftp.com/ http://www.globalscape.com/mft/ http://www.webdrive.com/products/titan-ftp-server/ http://www.ipswitchft.com/ws-ftp-server

Two very helpful links when dealing with flipping DB copies back and forth and then suddenly running into a corrupted CI preventing you from moving/failing a DB copy back to a particular server. http://theucguy.net/fix-corrupted-content-index-catalog-of-a-mailbox-database-with-single-copy/ http://www.techieshelp.com/exchange-2013-outlook-and-owa-search-does-not-work/

Helpful list/aggregation of useful (free) 3rd party distributions to turn commodity hardware into a dedicated iSCSI/NFS/CIFS storage platform to provide a centralized storage solution for your family, home office, or SMB. Commercial/Paid Offerings http://www.open-e.com/ http://www.nexenta.com/   http://euronas.com/nas_operating_system/   http://lime-technology.com/   http://www.flexraid.com/   http://www.serverelements.com/ Free/Open-Source Solutions http://nexentastor.org/ https://sites.google.com/site/eonstorage/ http://www.freenas.org/ http://www.openmediavault.org/

I've been enjoying the ad and malware protection provided by my home pfSense box with the pfblocker page recently, however I wanted to investigate additional alternatives for users with less sophisticated home networking setups. https://pfsense.org/ https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Pfblocker Free or inexpensive DNS filtering solutions for home/SMB use. OpenDNS - https://www.opendns.com/ 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Comodo Secure DNS - https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/ 8.26.56.26 8.20.247.20 Neustar DNS - http://www.neustar.biz/services/dns-services/free-recursive-dns 156.154.70.1 156.154.71.1 Web filtering software for additional endpoint protection. http://www.nxfilter.org/p2/ http://dnsredirector.com/ http://www.safernet.co.za/ http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

For those of you struggling with existing RDS/TS or Citrix environments, here are a few alternatives to consider. http://www.terminalserviceplus.com/ http://www.ericom.com/ http://www.2x.com/ras/remote-application-server/ https://www.nomachine.com/enterprise http://opennx.net/ http://www.cendio.com/

Protect your sensitive files and personal information stored on public cloud storage (DropBox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) https://www.viivo.com/ https://www.boxcryptor.com/ https://www.encryptedcloud.com/ https://www.sookasa.com/ http://www.cloudfogger.com/en/  

A few nifty alternatives to Outlook that I've come across... Zimbra Desktop -  https://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra-desktop/index.html PostBox - http://postbox-inc.com/index.php Opera Mail -  http://www.opera.com/computer/mail eM Client -  http://www.emclient.com/ Mozilla Thunderbird -  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

NoMachine NX http://www.nomachine.com/index.php Desktone http://www.desktone.com/ MokaFive http://www.mokafive.com/index.php tuCloud http://www.tucloud.com/ NXtop http://www.virtualcomputer.com/ Netleverage - Thinpoint Desktop http://www.netleverage.com/index.html

After working on a new three node ESXi cluster today, I thought I'd post some helpful command tutorials. Enable SNMP via vSphere CLI  (v4.1) Launch vCLI from desktop/startmenu shortcut. Verify you are in the correct directory: C:\Program Files\VMWare\VMWare vSphere CLI\bin 1) Configure SNMP community string and trap host vicfg-snmp --server <server_ip_address> --username root --password <password> -c <public, private, custom> -p 161 -t targetIP@161/<your_string_here> 2) Enable SNMP Agent   vicfg-snmp.pl --server <server_ip_address> --username root --password <password> -E 3) Test SNMP trap  vicfg-snmp.pl --server <server_ip_address> --username root --password <password> -T Patching your ESXi System with vSphere CLI The latest patches can be downloaded here: http://www.vmware.com/patch/download/ 1) Download all the necessary patches to your local machine with the vSphere CLI installed...

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