Passwordless Authentication in Linux – Part 3 – Certificate-Based and FIDO2 Authentication
After exploring certificate-based authentication and Passkeys on FIDO2 for Windows in Part 1 and Part 2, this third part takes…
Understanding Windows-to-UNIX User Mapping with UNIX Security Style in NetApp ONTAP
When Windows users access data stored on a NetApp ONTAP volume using UNIX security style, ONTAP must translate the Windows…
Understanding NFS AUTH_SYS User Mapping with NTFS Security Style in NetApp ONTAP
When NFS clients access data on a NetApp ONTAP volume using NTFS security style, ONTAP cannot simply evaluate the UNIX…
Passwordless Authentication in Windows – Logon and RDP without Passwords – Part 2 – FIDO2 Passkeys and Microsoft Entra Kerberos
In Part 1, we implemented passwordless authentication using certificate-based smart-card logon, storing the user’s authentication certificate and private key securely…
Passwordless Authentication in Windows – Logon and RDP without Passwords – Part 1- Certificate-Based Authentication
Passwords have been the traditional method for authenticating users to Windows systems for decades. However, passwords also introduce several security…
Understanding ICMP Redirects – Why Your Network Traffic Suddenly Takes a Different Route
When a host needs to communicate with a destination outside its local subnet, it normally forwards the packet to its…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 4 – Managing Hyper-V with SCVMM and Comparing It with VMware vCenter
So far, we have built and managed our Hyper-V environment using Hyper-V Manager, Failover Cluster Manager, and PowerShell. While these…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 3 – Configuring iSCSI Storage, Cluster Shared Volumes, and Live Migration
In Part 2, we configured the Hyper-V networking using Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) and created our two-node Failover Cluster. In…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 2 – Configuring Hyper-V Networking, SET, and Failover Clustering
In Part 1 of this series, we installed the Hyper-V role and prepared the lab environment by deploying a domain…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 1 – Installing Hyper-V and Preparing the Lab Environment
Hyper-V has become a mature enterprise virtualization platform that provides high availability, live migration, software-defined networking, and deep integration with…
