Disable or Enable Firewall on Hyper-V

To disable the firewall in the currently running profile, you can issue the command:
netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state off

And re-enable with:
netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state on

Note: If your Hyper-V is internet facing, disabling the firewall is not recommended.

Bandwidth Throttling / Policing on Cisco ASA

If If you are looking to control the amount of bandwidth for a particular host using a Cisco ASA Security Appliance, you’ve come to the right place. When I was first asked to look into this capability on the ASA I knew that I could perform some sort of Quality of Service (QOS). In fact, all of the documentation that I came across either on Cisco’s website or from third party integrators have detailed information on controlling quality for VoIP, traffic shaping, and how to do those things across a VPN tunnel. While the information on these great features of the ASA is helpful, finding articles on limiting bandwidth to a particular IP address was more difficult to track down. In fact, it took a TAC case and several hours of reading papers on the above services until I was able to figure out how to police bandwidth using my ASA. In the example below I am throttling bandwidth to 1Mb for the host 1.1.1.1:

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Jan, 02, 2012
Angelo Schalley
Active Directory, Citrix, security, Windows-Microsoft

This article highlights many common client drive mapping inquiries and issues along with their respective explanation or resolution. The management consoles may allow the configuration of policies to assist with some of the desired client drive mapping settings.

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