Windows Server 2012 R2 authentication policies

Windows Server 2012 R2 authentication policies

The growth and improper use of domain administrator accounts is one of the major security threats to systems in Windows Active Directory (AD) domains.

In order to avoid potential issues arising from these troubles, here’s an article about restricting the use of domain admin accounts to domain controllers in Windows Server 2012 R2 domains by enabling support for additional Kerberos features.

The author also explains how to create a new authentication policy and silo. You can have a look at the tutorial here

Red Hat acquires an IT automation & DevOps company

Red Hat acquires an IT automation & DevOps company

Red Hat today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, a provider of IT automation solutions designed to help enterprises move toward frictionless IT. Ansible’s automation capabilities, together with Red Hat’s existing management portfolio, will help users drive down the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments. With today’s announcement, Red Hat expands hybrid cloud management, OpenStack and containers.

Ansible does not require any special coding skills, removing some of the most significant barriers to automation across IT.

Apple, Nutanix Acropolis & Free Software Foundation

Apple, Nutanix Acropolis & Free Software Foundation

The most read topics in our blog during last weeks have been Apple‘s decision about not renewing VMware‘s license agreement for server virtualization, UDS Enterprise & Nutanix Acropolis integration and Free Software Foundation 30th anniversary.

Find below the links to our top 3 posts according to our followers just in case you didn’t have the chance to read them yet:

Apple bets on Open Source & moves from VMware to KVM

UDS Enterprise & Nutanix Acropolis integration

The Free Software Foundation celebrates 30th anniversary

VMware updates its hybrid cloud management platform

VMware updates its hybrid cloud management platform

VMworld 2015, which is being held in Barcelona, has been marked by Dell’s acquisition of EMC, since EMC owns 80% of VMware. According to reports from the company, VMware will remain an independent company and it will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange. But it will take some time to know if this will imply any change for VMware.

As usual, several announcements have been made in this event, such as updates in hybrid cloud management platforms VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business Standard 7.

Advantages of Open Source based software

Advantages of Open Source based software

Nowadays more and more users, companies and organizations go into Open Source software.

In addition to savings from avoiding license acquisition costs, this type of software provides other benefits, such as the possibility of adapting it to each user’s needs very easily and without requiring help from others.

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