Microsoft Security Compliance Manager – Hardening our servers

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2 is a repository of Microsoft security templates that we can apply to our servers or PCs on our network providing greater security, since these templates are predefined depending on the OS. and the services run by the target machine. The good thing is that we will be able to keep the templates always 'up to date’ through updates that we can download from the console. We will be able to import GPOs, More Baselines… we will be able to edit/duplicate them and to apply them to our environment we will export them.

VMware Project: Onyx

Onyx is an app (beta) that will allow us to obtain PowerCLI code to be able to use it later; is presented as a proxy between the VMware vSphere Client and the vCenter Server, monitors traffic passing between the two and converts it into PowerShell code, being able only with the movement of the mouse, generate our own scripts with the intention of automating tasks or to know a function/command in a simple way…

Integrating Lync Server 2010 with OWA

In this document, we'll look at how to integrate instant messaging between Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 allowing our users to connect from the outside without the Lync client, something that is missing when it previously existed in Office Communications Server, so that our users, once logged into OWA, will be able to use instant messaging from a browser anywhere securely and with any device,

Installing and Configuring Microsoft Lync Server 2010

It is the new product name Microsoft Office Communications Server, Lync Server will allow our users to be connected to each other at all times, being able to collaborate or participate with each other in a faster/easier way wherever they are; provides our users with the use of: voice, Instant messaging and audio conferencing, Video and web made easy. It also integrates seamlessly with Office applications & SharePoint,

Installing and Configuring vSphere Auto Deploy

vSphere Auto Deploy will allow us to massively deploy ESXi hosts 5 via PXE on our network, for this we will need to previously have a custom ESXi image to send to our hosts, que la podremos generar con Image Builder. Auto Deploy se instalará en una máquina Windows si es que no tenemos VMware vCenter Server Appliance (that is already installed); and finally we will need Host Profiles; since through them we will apply the configurations on the hosts that boot through PXE (or alternatively we can use response files), these servers would not need a hard drive as they load it into RAM. This is totally ultimate in large environments to quickly and massively deploy ESXi hosts, being able to have centralized and non-distributed configuration (manual) on each host, having our ESXi image fully customized at the driver level, update…

National Security Scheme: Microsoft How-To Guide

I present this great article by Marcos Fernandez: A must-read guide has recently been published for all those professionals involved in some way with Security Management in corporate environments, especially with regard to Public Administration. This is the National Security Scheme with Microsoft, A very useful and practical guide, with a concrete and concise approach to help understand the National Security Scheme, and to be able to implement its guidelines successfully within the company.

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

One of the new features of vSphere 5 es la disponibilidad de un nuevo virtual appliance con VMware vCenter Server 5 in it, es una máquina linux por lo que ya quitamos la necesidad de tener un Windows consumiendo licencias para gestionar un entorno virtual de VMware de forma centralizada. Este nuevo appliance virtual llamado VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) nos ahorrará dinero en gastos de implementación, mantenimiento y sobre todo licencias Windows, en este documento veremos cómo podemos desplegarlo en apenas unos minutos (la instalación y configuración),