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Extracting Registration Codes from PDF

Have you ever ordered a bunch of Fortinet gear or services and forgot to add FortiDeploy to you order and…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2025

Extracting Private Key from FortiGate Firewall

Why would you need to export the private key when you create a CSR on the FortiGate.  If for instance,…

By Manny Fernandez

August 30, 2022

Quick-Tip : Debugging IPsec VPN on FortiGate Firewalls

Quick-Tips are short how to's to help you out in day-to-day activities.  Usually they are quick easy commands to make…

By Manny Fernandez

February 23, 2021

Querying Nested LDAP Groups on the FortiGate

Use case: When dealing with LDAP queries, sometime you have issues with using nested groups.  That is, you have a…

By Manny Fernandez

February 23, 2021

Using WAN Link Monitor for Redundant Internet Connections

First thing I want to mention is that there is other ways of doing multiple ISPs using SD WAN configuration…

By Manny Fernandez

February 10, 2021

Setting up SSL Offload and Load Balancing for inbound connections on a FortiGate

Today I was working with a colleague of mine on a proof-of-concept for one of his customers.  The requirements were…

By Manny Fernandez

August 24, 2020

Protected: Using Referrer Field with FortiGate Web Filter

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By Manny Fernandez

August 7, 2020

Decreasing Fail-Over Time for Multi-Homed VPNs using DPD.

Use case: Customer has two ISP connections at both sites. Two VPNs configured. ISP1 to ISP1 and ISP2 to ISP2.…

By Manny Fernandez

July 1, 2020

Deploying SSL VPNs Using Multiple Realms

Realms are a feature on the FortiGate that I have written about in the past, but I never really did…

By Manny Fernandez

May 26, 2020

EMS for Internal and External FortiClients

When deploying EMS in your environment, you want to make sure the users can communicate back to EMS when connected…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2020

Anti-SPAM Feature on FortiGate Firewalls

Normally, I position FortiMail for anti-SPAM at customers.  However, today I decided to play with the Anti-SPAM feature on the…

By Manny Fernandez

May 16, 2020

VWire with FortiGate Firewalls

Although the FortGate CAN operate in transparent mode, I rarely used/use it.  Fortinet introduced VWire which is a layer 2 pair…

By Manny Fernandez

May 14, 2020

Limiting Protocols in FortiGate Web Access Portal VPN

When you connect to a FortiGate in Web Portal mode, by default, you are able to create bookmarks using HTTP/HTTPS,…

By Manny Fernandez

May 12, 2020

Binding to LDAP with Minimum Access

Most of the documentation out there will tell you to configure a Domain Admin user to perform LDAP authentication.  When I…

By Manny Fernandez

May 3, 2020

Syslog Filtering on FortiGate Firewall & Syslog-NG

We recommend sending FortiGate logs to a FortiAnalyzer as it produces great reports and great, usable information.  However sometimes, you…

By Manny Fernandez

April 27, 2020

Troubleshooting FortClient VPN Connectivity Issues with FortiGate

As more and more users are using remote access VPNs and probably using FortiClient, I wanted to share the errors…

By Manny Fernandez

April 23, 2020

Restricting YouTube to Specific Channels on FortiGate Firewalls

Please note that YouTube is changing the way it categorizes content to comply with COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). …

By Manny Fernandez

April 20, 2020

Setting Up FortiVoice Softphones for Desktop and Mobile

Fortinet has a fantastic voice solution.  It is the FortiVoice Enterprise or FVE.  I have many customers that are running…

By Manny Fernandez

April 16, 2020

Adding Elastic IPs to AWS FortiGate to be used as VIPs

Lately I have been doing some AWS.  I am looking to get certified in the short-term.  I was struggling with…

By Manny Fernandez

March 25, 2020

Remote Access SSL VPN : Start-to-Finish (Video)

Today I wanted to try something new.  Don't know how it is going to work out so hopefully it works. …

By Manny Fernandez

March 21, 2020

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