Rutter Networking Technologies Blog

Check Point has recently announced the release of Endpoint Security, E80.30. This release has resolved several issues that were present in E80.20 and also introduced some new features that should prove to be useful in the future. Two features of the E80.20 are Virtual Groups and Media Encryption & Port Protection Support.

This document will provide an overview of Microsoft Transporter Suite which allows for the coexistence of IMAP Messaging environments and Microsoft Exchange 2007. I will focus on coexistence in this article and will separately discuss about migration in a different article. Some companies have requirements for a coexistence solution which will need to last for a couple of months to a year, or even longer. Although it is not recommended to have such a long coexistence period, this requirement typically exists because of the long durations it can take to develop, deploy and migrate existing Notes applications to a separate environment (typically Microsoft Sharepoint).

When planning a Lync deployment, we are finding some customers are running into issues in planning the CPU overhead of their systems. For many people, they are using the “Lync Server 2010 Capacity Calculator” to generate their anticipated system load.

As an administrator faced with the demanding task of an Active Directory migration, you need to know which machines are used by every client, which machines are used by multiple people and which employees log into them. This information can be very useful for support staff in general – but it really becomes a lifesaver when doing an AD migration or consolidation. You do not need a sophisticated third party auditing tool with an expensive support agreement. Just a one line capture script:

At Teched 2011 this year, Microsoft announced the broadened virtualization support of Exchange 2010.

Customers often try to strike the right balance between managing the “threat from within” while at the same time offering their user population access to network resources.  The edge of the network represents a unique opportunity to enforce the company’s security posture and acceptable use policy.   No longer is it sufficient to merely leverage 802.1x to authenticate and grant users access to the network.

vSphere 5 has been out for about a month now and we are all really excited about some of the new features.  The internal Rutter environment has been running View and vSphere 5 for about a month now with no issues (knock on wood!).

A common problem when migrating objects from one forest to another using Microsoft’s ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) is the inability of the tool to migrate SID history for windows standard domain global groups such as "Domain User" or "Domain Admins." Typically what happens is in situations where administrators have used these groups to assign permissions such as in file and directories on a file and print server, users no longer have access to these files and directories during the interoperability stage of a migration. This stage is when users, groups and workstations have all been migrated to the new forest, but the application servers still remain in the source domain.

Check Point has announced their new line of appliances on October 5, 2011 and they’ve already begun shipping. These new appliances provide up to triple the security performance of their predecessors. In addition, they have introduced more flexibility to implement additional network ports to even the mid-level appliances. 

We have found that many of our clients are running into snags when trying to implement this process. So to help, we thought it would be useful to outline the most common pitfalls.