We’ve been testing Response Policy Zones (RPZ) aka DNS firewalling since June last year to see if we could measure the amount of traffic to … Read more

We’ve seen a recent spike in the numbers of staff falling for phishing scams. This blog post outlines a number of ways which can help … Read more

Summary An issue has been discovered in the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACLs) over Network File System (NFS) on the infrastructure now supporting the … Read more

I understand that our way of getting users signed into Office365 via Shibboleth is considered a little… scary. In the interest of transparency and community … Read more

Office365 now exposes a number of reports which will hopefully be useful for measuring usage and engagement of mailbox users. One such report is the … Read more

Keeping track of software which is going EOL is a never ending and thankless task. Never ending, because all software has a lifespan, even though … Read more

Resolving a long running complex and intermittent issue provided a good opportunity for a blog post on the process involved and why some seemingly simple … Read more

For some time we’ve been aware of the effects of ZFS Fragmentation, which typically becomes an issue as a zpool passes 80% full, although we’ve … Read more

A few days ago we noticed that our Oracle (née Sun, née iPlanet, née Netscape…) Directory Server Connector for FIM (née Management Agent [MA]) was, … Read more

Some notes on generating Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) with Subject Alternate Names (SANs) using JANET’s certificate service (https://certificates.ja.net/jcs/) CSR generation Create csr.dat as: [ req … Read more