How to allow accessing blocked countries’ URL in paloalto firewall

Situation: The company has a policy blocking their internal users to access foreign websites in the Palo Alto firewall. Now, they want to allow accessing a foreign websites.

Here is how.

  1. Go to Objects>Custom Objects>URL Category to create a object, Outsideweb in our example.
  2. Add the website, *.sendibt3.com in our example.

3. Go to Policies>Security.

4. Create policy, Trusted to internet 1 in out example and make sure it is before the Outbound Blocked Countries policy.

5. In Security Policy Rule>Service/URL Category, add the new object, Outsideweb.

6. Click OK and send commit to save the settings.

How to allow access foreign IP address in Palo Alto Firewall

Situation: The company has a policy blocking their internal users to access foreign IP address in the Palo Alto firewall. Now, they want to allow accessing a foreign IP address.

Here is how.

  1. In paloalto firewall, go to Policies>Security.

2. Find the policy which blocks all other countries’ IP addresses except USA, Outbound Blocked Countries in our example.

3. In Destination, click on Add to add the IP address.

4. Click OK and send Commit to save the settings.

Please view this step by step video:

How do I know if my computer have windows 10 version 2004 or not?

To check the status of Windows 10 version 2004, please follow these steps.

  1. Click on Star, and then Settings.

2. Click on Update & Security.

3. If you see Feature update to Windows 10, version 2004. Learn more or download and Install. The computer doesn’t run version 2004 yet.

Click on View update history. If you see Feature update to Windows 10, version 2004, the computer is running version 2004.

Please view the step by step video:

How to disable Windows update in WSUS

Situation: since Microsoft Windows 10 version 2004 causes a lot problems, the company decided to remove this update from their WSUS. Here is how.

  1. Login WSUS.
  2. Go to Update Services>Servername>Updates>All Updates.
  3. Find the update, 2004 in our example. Right click and select Declined.

How to downloads and install Office 365 on multiple computers

This article shows you how to download and install Office 365 on multiple computers without connecting to the Internet.

  1. Download ODT by following this article.

Download Office Deployment Tool from Official Microsoft …

2. Re-configure the configuration file (configuration-32bit.xml) based on your license. This is the example of configuration file for Office 365 E3.

Note: 1) SourcePath could be a network drive, for example \\servername\odt.

2) OfficeClientEdition=”32″ is 32 bit version.

3) Product ID can be found the below article. In our example E3 is “O365ProPlusRetail”

Product IDs that are supported by the Office Deployment …

3. Run This command line to download office 365.

setup.exe /download configuration-32bit.xml

Note: That will create a Office folder and download installation files.

4. Now run this command line to install office 365.

setup.exe /configure configuration-32bit.xml

Note: if you want to install ODT on multiple computer, you can copy the ODT folder or share it from the network drive. Then run the command line.

Please view this step by step vidoe:

How to setup WiFi in Windows 10 Laptop

  1. Click Windows Star and type wireless in the search bar.

2. Click WiFi Settigns.

3. Click showed WiFi. If the WiFi connection doesn’t show up, click Show available networks.

4. You may see multiple WiFi connections. Click your home WiFi connection, for example xfinitywifi.

5. Check Connect automatically and then Connect.

6. You may need to enter the WiFi password.

7. If it works, you should see the WiFi icon in the right bottom. You are good to go.

How to backup Amazon Photos using Desktop App

  1. Go to Amazon website to download Amazon Photos Apps.

2. Install the Amazon Photos Apps.

3. Open the Amazon Photos desktop app and follow the wizard to set it up. .

4. From the Backup tab, select Add a folder to backup.

5. Select the folder you want to back up.

6. Set your preferences for the backup such as recurrence, type of files, etc.

7. Select Save.