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[ShadowsPapa]

Yeah....
Can we all agree Cisco AnyConnect is a PITA?

Don't get me going on Cisco's VPN - that was SUPPOSED to allow Windows 10 to connect to the domain before launching the Windows GUI. I even went through Cisco support - and they were not able to make it work for us! That was that - I set up NCP VPN, the NCP gateway virtual server, etc. and it actually allowed a VPN connect to the domain so that the user could be authenticated to the domain going into Windows.
Not only that but NCP worked every single time and took 1/4 the time to connect, domain or not. I could setup domain groups to allow or disallow connections, if the machine wasn't a domain member, NO connection.
Yet central state IT loved Cisco - I finally got their lead guy to admit "It's because that's all I know". I figured it was time for him to expand his horizons LOL.

I never told the users what I was doing and one week my boss came to me and said users were contacting him telling him that whatever we did - made connections much faster and they had no issues with the domain once in.

But what was funny - Cisco said "it should work" and were never able to make it work.

And give me Juniper switches and firewalls.........

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[it_trailblzr]

I am still mystified by why my company uses Cisco products.
We used to have (IT guys) our own Vlan, dedicated network, but no! It went away, and we have to use customer wifi > VPN > and it drops all the time.?
Call "Networking" and all they do is reset the AP I am near. Then I get told there are 130+ devices on the network! and if that`s not bad enough, they push server updates in the middle of the day.
I could rant for days on this.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I am still mystified by why my company uses Cisco products.
We used to have (IT guys) our own Vlan, dedicated network, but no! It went away, and we have to use customer wifi > VPN > and it drops all the time.?
Call "Networking" and all they do is reset the AP I am near. Then I get told there are 130+ devices on the network! and if that`s not bad enough, they push server updates in the middle of the day.
I could rant for days on this.

Maybe you know the recent pipeline hacking - it was done via a VPN - apparently the user's password was found "on the dark web" and that's how they got in.
AGAIN- it's PEOPLE! It wasn't a hack, someone left the key to the door laying on the table, so to speak.

Our IT people were on their own lan and IP scheme, servers were on another, etc.

Before she left and I took over server updates - and workstation updates - we used to come in Monday AM and the Microsoft system she used to push updates was a disaster and updates were still going full-blast Monday at 8am and no one could get to anything! I switched to a Symantec product, updates were distributed, first system to get updates in a remote office could share those updates with other systems in that office so WAN traffic was minimal.
When I took over, Servers were only at night on weekends unless it was an emergency. And the product I used could be throttled so that if there was more than 10% of the available bandwidth being used, updates were paused or throttled.

 

[it_trailblzr]

Now you`re just showing off LOL
But seriously, that hurts to read.
If only....

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