Articles filed in category 'Network'

  • SharePoint Applied: To Kerberos or Not

    By: Sahil Malik

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - September/October

    Whenever you create a new SharePoint website, one of the questions SharePoint asks you is to select an authentication mechanism. Should it be NTLM or should it be Kerberos?The first time I installed SharePoint, I picked Kerberos, because it sounded like a tropical fruit, only to be prompted that this will need more work! Given that I’m the laziest person you know, I changed my selection to NTLM, and went with the less naggy version instead!

  • Ask the Doc Detective

    By: Doc Detective

    Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - May/June

  • Networks and Services in the Cloud

    Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

    Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters

    A rapid, easy-to-understand approach to delivering a secure, resilient, easy-to-manage, SLA-driven cloud experience. Designing Networks and Services for the Cloud helps you understand the design and architecture of networks and network services that enable the delivery of business-grade cloud services. Drawing on more than 40 years of experience in network and cloud design, validation, and deployment, the authors demonstrate how networks spanning from the Enterprise branch/HQ and the service provider Next-Generation Networks (NGN) to the data center fabric play a key role in addressing the primary inhibitors to cloud adoption–security, performance, and management complexity.

  • PART I Introduction

    Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019

    Published in: Book Excerpts

    “From a drop of water . . . a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.”-Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet

  • Windows Azure network services

    Last updated: Friday, February 22, 2019

    Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters

    Windows Azure network services provide the foundation for building hybrid cloud solutions for your business. Windows Azure Virtual Network lets you securely connect your cloud infrastructure to your on-premises datacenter. Windows Azure Traffic Manager allows you to control how user traffic is distributed to cloud services. Windows Azure also includes a name resolution service you can use for internal hostname resolution within a cloud service. This chapter provides an overview of the different network services in Windows Azure and includes insights from product team experts concerning how these services relate to one another, what you can do with them, and how you can use them.