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Azure Active Directory from Microsoft provides advanced, centralized authentication in the cloud. We show what this powerful system can do.

In previous versions of App-V, using a profile management tool was nice but not essential. The tide has clearly turned with App-V version 5. We examine the profile management needs for different App-V 5 infrastructures.

The Fault Tolerant Router daemon uses multipath routing among multiple Internet connections to keep you connected, even when some connections go down.

Debian's ReproducibleBuilds project helps you determine whether a binary package was actually built from the associated source code.

The free Google Analytics is a convenient way to analyze website usage; but, with a few minor modifications, the service can also be used for simple evaluations of any data traffic on the company network. We show you how to use Google Analytics to capture and analyze NetFlow data.

Warning: Fedora 22 Server is not a Live distribution. Please run in a virtual environment for test purposes.

The Fedora community unveils Fedora 22 Server, an operating system designed with various data center technologies to assist you in controlling your infrastructure and services. Server roles allow deployment and management of prepared roles with the Rolekit tool. DNF (Dandified Yum) replaces Yum as the default packaging tool. The web-based Cockpit server manager lets you access various subsystems across multiple servers from a single interface. Cockpit features include:

• systemd service management
• Journal log viewer
• Storage configuration, including LVM
• Docker container management
• Basic network configuration
• local user management

News for system administrators around the world.

osTicket is a lean ticket system that limits itself to the core functions of receiving and processing requests.

Perhaps the most notable of all the wearables currently on the market are smartwatches. Several companies now sell these devices and their accompanying apps. The problem I have with wearables such as smartwatches is that they require tethering to a smartphone via an app, via Bluetooth connectivity, or likely via both. This means that your watch and your phone can never be more than a few meters apart for full functionality.

Even though corporations are looking to move to IPv6, in some situations networks still rely exclusively on IPv4. We discuss ways to minimize delays and unsatisfactory behavior in mixed IPv4/IPv6 IT environments.