New Year, New Theme

January 5, 2025

Quick one but I’ve spent a bit of time today cleaning up the backend and loaded a new theme. I’ve also started to clean-up older articles to make sure the fit with the new theme and block editor of WordPress (as I’ve continued to use the “classic” style for quite some time). More articles and things to come for 2025!

Australian FTTP via Telstra not connecting to FortiGate

We recently had a customer take advantage of a free upgrade from FTTN (Fibre to the Node) to FTTP (Fibre to the Premise) for their NBN (National Broadband Network) service. However during cut-over the FortiGate wasn’t picking up connectivity on the WAN port, this had the on-site guy stumped for 10 minutes until we jumped […]

Security warning when you start Outlook 2007 and then connect to a mailbox that is hosted on a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010: “The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site”

I recently setup a SBS 2011 server for one of my clients. For several reasons we changed the external name to reach the server so instead of remote.fdqn.com.au it would be exchange.fqdn.com.au this worked perfectly once DNS settings propagated and allowed employees to connect externally via webmail or Outlook Anywhere (one of the best features […]

Allowing anonymous relay on Exchange 2007/2010 on connectors for programs to send via SMTP using your Mail servers and how to secure it for internal use only.

I was recently helping out a colleague at another school as they were having difficulty in a specialised application sending e-mails to external addresses. After a bit of investigating we found that the send connector configured for internet e-mail wasn’t allowing anonymous connections to it (which is dangerous) but since this particular application didn’t allow […]