Asaf Ganot's blog

Who am I?

I am the CEO and CTO of Smart-X Software Solutions.

For the past 12 years I worked as senior consultant and integrator on several medium and large enterprises in the field of IT.

Through the years, I designed and implemented many projects in the field of Active Directory, Server Based Computing, System automation and other related fields.

In my new blog, I will publish interesting articles and expose some of my tools for the IT community.

You are invited.

Preparing your Windows 2008 server for Web Service based products

The following document walks you through the steps of verifying the installation pre requisites for products which are based on ASP.NET Web Services on Windows 2008...

05/01/2010

Troubleshooting steps for "HTTP 503 - Service Unavailable" error on web applications based on ASP.NET 2.0

The following document walks you through some troubleshooting steps in order to overcome HTTP 503 error when accessing an ASP.NET application over IIS...

13/10/2009

Installation check list for .NET 2 Web Service Based Products

The following document walks you through the steps of verifying the installation pre requisites for products which are based on ASP.NET 2 Web Services...

12/10/2009

How to force clients to connect to an available DC when one of the DCs is down

Most organizations implement at least two Active Directory Domain Controllers for redundancy reasons. However, when one of the Domain Controllers fails, many applications on client machines still tries to contact the failed DC and fail with all kind of errors... (By Asaf Ganot)

25/01/2009

Active Directory Migration with ADMT – The extra mile

If you ever had the chance to perform domain migration using Microsoft's ADMT, you probably found that it is a great tool, but it misses some functionality.
The extra mile can be achieved with some scripting. However, certain tasks that are often needed before or after the migration are pretty complicated to script and require a certain amount of knowledge...(By Asaf Ganot)

17/01/2009

A cool way to block internet access to certain users / machines

As a system administrator, you might find it useful to block internet access for certain users and / or machine, but in many cases, you do want to allow access to several specific web sites.
This article shows an alternative way of doing it without using ISA, Firewall applications, IPSec and other complex solutions...(By Asaf Ganot)

12/01/2009

Supporting users on a Group Policy restricted environment

Most Server Based Computing (SBC) farms such as Terminal Server and Citrix farms are applied with a well restricted Group Policy infrastructure which keeps users focusing on their work rather than downloading files from the internet, playing solitaire or playing with the Control Panel settings. Also, there are also organizations which apply strict policy settings on user's workstations ...(By Asaf Ganot)

27/08/2008