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Updating Django OSQA to use reCaptcha 2
Our support site is built on OSQA which in turn is built on Django. It was still using reCaptcha (version 1) which was taken over by Google, and discontinued. So it was time to roll up our sleeves and update to reCaptcha 2. The main idea is the reCaptcha is a field based on a widget. […]
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File Sight Reported Files Read? What Happened?
We sometimes get requests from customers asking for help understanding a File Sight report. It often involves some user account is shown as having read 100’s of files very quickly. This post is to help explain what might have happened. From the server (where PA File Sight runs), it’s hard to know for sure. […]
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Responsible Data Governance
Data governance is a high-sounding term which describes what’s essentially a fundamental process: Effectively managing the information that resides within, and flows in or out of an organization. It’s perhaps because the concept is couched in such ominous terms that IT managers and users have a difficult time understanding, interpreting, and applying data governance […]
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Making Sure Your Cloud Storage Is GDPR-Compliant
It’s now just a couple of months until the European Union (EU) brings its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into effect. As of May 25, 2018, this body of rules will bring the most wide-ranging and stringent set of internet privacy laws ever formulated into the forefront of global business. Designed to safeguard the […]
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Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing (EFSS)
As institutions and business organizations strive for the ideal of “digital transformation” – the optimizing of internal operations and increase in productivity through the adoption of technology and the elimination of analog processes – the need has grown for documents and files to be made available on demand, to whoever requires them. Policies […]
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Power Admin on the Radio!
Doug from Power Admin was invited onto the popular “Dave the IT Guy” radio show yesterday. It was a great conversation and we’re glad we got to participate. You can listen to the show directly by clicking here. Read more about Dave the IT Guy and his rich experiences in the IT sector. […]
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Monitor IIS Application Pools
We’ve had a number of customers asking how they can monitor their IIS application pools’ status. It turns out there is a handy performance counter that can do that. Note that a value of 3 is ‘Running’. So you just need to create a Performance Monitor to watch the counter for your instance and […]
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PA Server Monitor on Chromebook
A clever customer in Florida sent us a screenshot of the PA Server Monitor Console running on his Chromebook: For anyone that would like to do the same thing, directions are available at: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/forum/pa-server-monitor-console?msg=186135 Thanks Darrell!
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Some SD-WAN Security Tips
The traditional reliance on in-house data centers gave organizations the advantage of being able to monitor and manage access to the internet from a centralized location – and to implement security policies and controls which emanated from a single point. With the evolution of technology and a shift in traditional working patterns, enterprise networks […]
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Intent-Based Networking
The software-defined approach to network management and implementation relies on the creation of an abstraction layer, to provide a virtual overlay on the physical infrastructure of servers, switches, routers, and wireless access points. Historically, the creation and management of these virtual network layers has been accomplished through a combination of virtual Local Area Networks […]
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