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Articles from ADMIN Issue 32
I successfully avoided buying an Apple Watch, but I've jumped headlong into the fitness band craze with a Withings Activité Steel watch, iOS companion app, and its Connected Blood Pressure Monitor.
The openSUSE community offers the "first Linux hybrid distro," which combines source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) with community contributions in an effort to provide a balance between innovation and maturity. ClearOS, also known as the Next-Generation Small Business Server, is an IT solution for homes, small to medium-sized businesses, and distributed environments.
News for system administrators around the world.
Admins often want to know how to measure the performance of a specific solution. Care is needed, however: Where there are benchmarks, there are pitfalls.
Redmond is set to launch the next-generation Windows Server 2016. Microsoft promises to make administration more secure, which is a good enough reason to take a closer look at the new Privileged Access Management feature.
Classic security safeguards, like antivirus and firewall products, are imperative for system protection. To search proactively for network intruders, as well, Microsoft offers Advanced Threat Analytics – a tool that will help even less experienced admins.
Keeping track of hardware, software, and licenses is next to impossible in these days of BYOD and virtualization. Spiceworks Inventory solves the problem with a single, small executable full of open source software and a web browser.
The Veil pen-testing platform provides some powerful tools that will hide your attack from antivirus scanners – and Veil even supports Metasploit payloads.
The small but secure Hiawatha web server provides an appealing alternative to the complex Apache and other alternatives.
Installing Active Directory Federation Services is complex and involves several GUIs. For admins entrusted with building a farm, repetitive clicking in various management consoles can become an annoying and error-prone process. The call for automation is loud.
