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SharePoint SUSHI is a powerful, user-friendly utility designed to simplify common Microsoft SharePoint management tasks.  SUSHI simplifies backups, list migrations, security reporting and data import/export. Think of SUSHI as the “swiss army knife” for SharePoint

SUSHI = SharePoint Utility with a Smart, Helpful Interface

Features

Administration

• Security Reports View all sites and lists a user has access to.
• Profile Images Import Upload Profile Images and Apply them to User Profiles.
• Backup Backup a site.
• Restore Restore site from backup.
• Email Test Send a test email to make sure outbound email is set up correctly.

Lists

• Copy View Copy a view from one SharePoint list to another.
• Meta Data Get detailed information about metadata in a list. Move metadata from one column to another for all items in a list. And more.
• Bulk List Creation Create a large number of subsites based on a site template.
• Bulk Site Columns Create Site Columns. (continue reading…)
  

PCI Compliance Scans of servers hosting online shopping cards and sales system’s have become the norm and are often required by credit card processors.

Most security auditors use automated tools such as Nessus or Acunetix to carry out server-wide assessments but the scan results often contain many false positives. For example, some automated scanning software does not take into account practices such as back porting security fixes. Distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux have very clear policies regarding backports.

The open source nature of Linux makes it relatively easy to maintain PCI compliance. When commercial control panel software, such as Plesk, is installed on a server, maintaining compliance can be more challenging. Plesk takes control of the e-mail and web services. Changes can be introduced to the configuration to make a Plesk server compliant as long as they are done the “Plesk way.” If they are not introduced with a Plesk-compatible format, the next time a domain is added or modified through the control panel the changes may be lost.

The following guide assumes you are working with a Plesk 8.6 (or above) installation on RedHat Enterprise or CentOS Linux. (continue reading…)

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Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is a suite of tools provided by Dell for managing an individual server. Dell provides a Windows installation tool set on their support website but information pertaining to the installation on non-supported Dell operating systems (e.g. CentOS, Fedora) is a little hard to find.

If your running Dell branded servers with CentOS 5.x and need to install the current version of Dell OpenManage and OpenIPMI, the following script will automate the process.

1. Login to your server.
2. cd /usr/src (continue reading…)

For those using Plesk 9.x, Horde naively allows webmail logins via HTTP (in-secure) or HTTPS (secure). HTTP log-ins are not recommended as username and password information is sent in clear text across the Internet.

In the following example we’ll configure access to http://webmail.yourdomain.com to automatically re-direct to https://webmail.yourdomain.com.

NOTE: These instructions are specific to Plesk’s implementation of Horde but should work on any Horde 3.1.7 installation. Simply locate Horde’s “conf.php” file and adjust the parameters shown below.

[root@youserver /]# nano -w /etc/psa/webmail/horde/horde/conf.php (continue reading…)