Laurens Gregoir, Author at Don Zalmrol

No more ads and enhanced security with pfBlockerNG for pfSense

By Laurens Gregoir Monday 21 June 2021ITDNS, pfblockerng, pfsenseNo Comments

Why? pfBlockerNG provides in addition to your existing FW rules an inbound and outbound filtering against: commercial ads malicious sites cryptominers trackers botnet viruses ... And is very easy to maintain and set up. Installation steps Install the package Go to System -> Package Manager -> Available Packages -> Search…

pfSense DNS Resolver with DNSSEC for Windows domains

By Laurens Gregoir Friday 18 June 2021ITDNS, DNSSEC, Microsoft, pfsenseNo Comments

What is DNSSEC? DNSSEC is simply DNS-Secured that uses DNS over TLS to encrypt your DNS requests. This option will prevent that other parties will able to view the contents of your DNS requests. Update: Since 2022 I've switched over to Opnsense How To Configure your pfSense DNS servers: Go…

ZoneMinder installation with Debian

By Laurens Gregoir Tuesday 24 November 2020ITCertificates, Debian, Linux, NVS, SSL, ZM, ZoneMinderNo Comments

A fully detailed guide on how you can install Zoneminder on your own private server running Debian with SSL integration. Why? I was doubting between purchasing a Network Video Recorder (NVS) and setting up an old server with ZoneMinder. Update: Since 2022 I have a DVR to save on power…

How to take ownership of a terminal user folder so you can safely remove it

By Laurens Gregoir Wednesday 25 March 2020ITMicrosoft, Powershell, RDP, Terminal ServerNo Comments

Introduction This was an annoying issue for me to remove the a terminal server user's profile from our file servers. Each time you need to remove an user's folder you get the standard access denied, then you need to change the permissions, inheritance, etc... so to save my colleagues and…