Recently I had to figure out how the enable routing between a FortiGate VM in Azure and an Meraki vMX. They were located in the same subscription. There is also a Routing table available. To other subnets and vnets in other subscriptions. On the Meraki vMX you need to add the subnet which you want …
Recently I came across and issue where the user with an laptop was connected to a docking station. Using a VMware horizon client to a remote system. The system functioned normal without using the VMware horizon client. When the user set up a connection to the remote system with the client 2 of his screens …
It could happen, but it’s not mandatory to happen. That your internet connection will be slow when you try to download or upload files over a Vodafone Fiber connection. It happened with a few customers of the company where I work for. To solve this problem you need to add a Traffic Shaper on your …
Today, I had to configure access to a certain Vlan for a few clients. The challenge was only that the systems could connect by ethernet or by Wi-Fi. To avoid the reservation for IP addresses it looked for a different solution. If it was possible to do this based on Mac Address. I created a …
I have tested the script Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 with the -online option to see how it went, to upload the system information of a new system out of the box. In fact this procedure is pretty simple. And it’s useful in case you didn’t get a CSV file from the supplier where you bought the devices ( …
Recently I tried to deploy a Fortinet Fortigate into azure. When I tried to add the FortiGate to the current VNETit wasn’t possible The option to select the current Vnet was greyed out. I figured out there is a workaround and the support of Microsoft was also amazed that it worked. In the following steps …
Recently I’ve tested the FortiOS 7.0 and I was wondering about the SAML connection towards Azure for login via Microsoft and the use of Multifactor Authentication. I have noticed there are some improvements. How ever, some features or functions are missing in the GUI. In general you need to configure the SAML though the CLI. …
In this blog, I describe how to create an overload nat pool on a FortiGate which has in basic a point-to-point internet connection and a separate subnet for other services. In this particular situation, I had a /30 subnet for the point-to-point connection. Which i configured on the WAN1 interface. The free address range is …
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Today I noticed a problem with a single domain controller. Whereas the domain controller kept on connecting to the private network instead of a domain network. I tried to figure out what caused this problem. Firstly I thought it was related to the boot sequence of the hyper-v server. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the problem, with …
It’s not common for me to configure a site to site VPN tunnel between a Fortinet device and a Meraki device. Today I had this kind of case and it’s not so great to find some information about how to make this vpn tunnel working propperly. In my case, the Fortinet appliance is a virtual …