Extend Volume on Amazon EC2 Instance

This one is pretty straightforward, but it is a nice little one that I might have to come back to at some point.  There is a really simple workflow for this: 1. Shutdown the EC2 instance 2. Create a snapshot of the volume that you want to expand 3. Cre …

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Amazon Glacier Backup of Linux Server

If you’re looking for cheap offsite backup storage and are ok waiting up to 24 hours for the ability to restore these backups, Amazon Glacier seems to be the main contender out there. At .01 per GB per month and no cost for storing or deleting backups …

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Panorama 5.1 & Wildfire WF-500 Appliance

Webinar that I hosted on June 26th about Panorama v5.1 and the newly announced Wildfire WF-500 appliance.       http://dev.lukky.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Panorama-5-1.1-Wildfire-WF-500-Appliance-Webinar-20130626-1900-1.mp4 Documents …

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AppleTV WPA2 Enterprise Wireless Authentication

Since update 5.1 for the AppleTV, it has been able to support WPA/WPA2 Enterprise authentication for wireless networks, but it’s not as easy as just clicking “Connect to <network name>” and typing in your username/password.  You actually have to …

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Customizing Active Directory Federation Services Login Pages

I haven’t created a written post in quite a while, but as I was looking for resources on this topic, I realized there could be more out there. This post is about customizing the login pages for Active Directory Federation Services or ADFS. We recently …

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Updates & New Features in GlobalProtect v2.0

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Updates & New Features in Panorama v5.0

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Updates In PAN-OS v5.0

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Configuring NAT In Palo Alto Networks’ Next Generation Firewalls

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Configuring User Identification In Palo Alto Networks’ Next Generation Firewalls

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Upgrade BIOS On Silicon Image Storage Controllers

For several years I used  OpenSolaris for my home storage platform, and in order to get the best performance from it, the best option was to put all storage controllers into JBOD mode.  (I no longer use OpenSolaris since Oracle killed it and the OpenIn …

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Short File Name Creation In Windows Server 2008

I was recently commissioned to migrate a file server for a client from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008.  A straightforward migration, I went ahead with the migration as I usually would, created the shares on the destination (hidden using the …

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