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Six Steps to Build an Effective Help Desk Knowledge Base

​​ John, the IT help desk manager, has been facing several productivity issues, including longer resolution times, and tickets have been piling up as a result. John thinks implementing an effective knowledge base might improve his team’s productivity. After all, a knowledge base will​ store resolutions, workarounds, and best practices that help reduce ticket inflows, improve resolution times, increase first call resolution rates, reduce the percentage of repeat incidents, and increase the self-service portal usage.

Source IP Addresses, STunnel, Haproxy and Server Logs

When using proxies such as STunnel and HAProxy it’s easy to loose track of the client source IP address. This occurs for example when HAProxy is used in it’s default configuration to load balance a number of back-end web servers. By default, the source IP address of the packet reaching the web servers is the IP address of the load balancer and not the IP address of the client

​Auditing with Advanced Audit Policy Configuration

Within the confines of the Windows Server environment lies the group policy settings, which are the security configuration powerhouses controlling every security event. The​ legacy audit settings and advanced audit settings — subsets of the group policy settings — are the lifelines that help administer many events and their permissions