Safe web
by Mats Hellman on 04.Nov, 2009 under Apple, Life, Networking
This post is a little of topic from what I usually write but for me it’s something important so I hope you forgive me. In May 2009 I became a father to a little girl who means the world to me. 
A post on the Cisco Portal blog got me thinking about security from a different point of view. Security at home. The internet has provided us with so much good. We can get information, access our bank and get news 24/7 . But it has it’s dark sides also. When I was young my parents knew that once I was home I was safe. I had my safe haven inside my parents house where no one could get to me.
The Internet with all it’s glory also opened a gateway to our homes for the predators. Following the news you read almost weekly about police shutting down large pedophile groups, and that’s a good thing. Law enforcement units are able to hunt them down using the networks. But just as the good guys use the networks to find them, the bad guys use the networks to share their sick and twisted materials.
Distributing Adobe Reader using Group policies
by Mats Hellman on 29.Oct, 2009 under Uncategorized
I see a lot of search engine traffic to this site when people are trying to find out how to deploy Adobe Reader using Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO’s). Since I wrote my previous two articles Adobe has changed their policy a bit. You need to ask them for a distribution license.
Setting up SSL-VPN in an Windows Server 2008 environment part 2
by Mats Hellman on 29.Oct, 2009 under Networking, Remote Access, VPN, Vista, Windows
Yesterday we setup our server to be able to handle the remote access requests. If you haven’t read the first part of this guide you can find it here. Today we will be taking a look at the next step.
Setting up SSL-VPN in an Windows Server 2008 environment
by Mats Hellman on 28.Oct, 2009 under Active Directory, Remote Access, VPN, Windows
In this 2 part series we will look at setting up SSL-VPN using Windows Server 2008. At the end on the next part you will be able to configure a Windows Vista or Windows 7 client to connect to the corporate network using SSL-VPN ( SSTP ). To test this scenario you need some previous knowledge of Windows Server System and Active Directory in particular. We will be using Active Directory to logon to VPN and control user access using it. If you, like me, don’t feel like testing in an production environment you can set this lab up in an Virtual PC or Virtual Server environment. I will not be going trough setting up Windows Server 2008 AD DS in this article. I expect you to have your domain up and running. To run this lab you will need the following
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise running HEL-DC1
- AD DS
- DHCP
- DNS
- AD CS ( Certificate Services Enterprise CA)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise running HEL-NAT
- 2 network interfaces – External and internal
- Windows Vista Business Edition
- Service Pack 2
Sites forcing users to use Ad-blockers.
by Mats Hellman on 26.Oct, 2009 under Nixadmins.net
As some of you (the ones who don’t use Ad-blockers) might have noticed, I run Google Adsense on my site. So far the income has been very low and it has been running for almost 2 years now. The idea was to try to cover hosting expenses using advertising programs but that failed. Because of this I’m currently looking into some other advertising providers who do not provide ads that make the user feel sick.
