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What is UPN - User Principal Name

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What is UPN User Principal Name (UPN) attribute in Microsoft Active Directory is userPrincipalName, and its value may be set as user's email address, though not necessarily. You can view UPN via the AttributeEditor property of a user's account in Active Directory, see below screenshot that shows Attribute name as userPrincipalName and its Value set as testuser1@DC1.example.com You can also derive the UPN from the user's Account - User logon name, in Active Directory. See below concatenation of user logon name and domain suffix - testuser1 and DC1.example.com. Concatenating these two (as shown in the screenshot below) yields testuser1@DC1.example.com which is the email address of the user. (Note in Pre-Windows 2000 the User logon name is DC\testuser1) How to view Attribute Editor in Active Directory You have to select Advanced Features (right click on the Domain Controller DC1.example.com on the left pane, click on View and then click Advanced Features) in o

CyberArk Vault Backup Utility - PAReplicate

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CyberArk Privileged Access Solution provides a utility PAReplicate that can be used to copy and backup the Safe files from the CyberArk Vault to a specified computer on the network. The backed files are in the same structure as that in the Safes folder See below a typical High Level Design for CyberArk Privileged Access Management and CyberArk Backup process and file structure. High Level Design for CyberArk Privilege Access Management CyberArk Backup Process The PAReplicate utility copies the Safe files from the Vault to a specified computer on the network in a similar structure to that in the Safes folder. Any User who has the ‘Backup All Safes’ user authorization and the ‘Backup Safe’ authorization in specific Safes can issue this command for those Safes. Use the Backup User to replicate the entire Vault. You can use PAReplicate to backup a specific Safe or a group of Safes. When using the specific backup, the requested Safe data files are copied to the specif

Knowledge Areas

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Knowledge areas Project Integration Management Project Scope Management Project Time Management Project Cost Management Project Quality Management Project Human Resources Management Project Communication Management Project Risk Management Project Procurement Management Knowledge areas Project Integration Management Project Scope Management Project Time Management Project Cost Management Project Quality Management Project Human Resource Management Project Communications Management Project Risk Management Project Procurement Management Project Stakeholder Management The processes that belong in each process group - Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control, and Closing, what they do and which knowledge area they represent can be confusing. This post (based on the info in PMBOK) discusses about each process group and briefly explains the processes that belong in each process group. The knowledge area they represent is indicated in brackets after

Cisco SDN

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Table Of Contents Evolution of Software Defined Networking within Cisco's VMDC Challenges within the Data Center SDN Architectural Framework and Solution Characteristics Centralized Control Overlay Networks SDN Solution Taxonomy Control Plane Function Data Plane / Control Plane Collocation Cisco's Virtual Multiservice Data Center VMDC 2.x and 3.x VMDC 4.x (vCE) Cisco vPE Conclusion Evolution of Software Defined Networking within Cisco's VMDC Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has the capability to revolutionize the current data center architecture and its associated networking model. This new paradigm, with its promised benefits, has the potential to create an inflection point in deploying cloud services. This paper summarizes the key characteristics of SDN as it is applied to data center virtualization, and illustrates how Cisco's Virtualized Multiservice Data Center (VMDC) solutions leverage many of these concepts today, to solve real-w