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Tutorial: Connect to Support Chat with Adium for Mac OS X

Here is a quick guide for connecting to the support chat server with Adium, a multi-chat client for Mac OS X.

First, launch Adium and go to Preferences –> Accounts.  Click the ‘+’ to add an account.  Choose ‘XMPP’ for account type.

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Enter your account name.  This will be <your_username>@iseage.org:

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Next click the ‘Options’ tab and enter the server and port as seen below.  Server should be “setup.iseage.org” and port should be 5222:

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You may now click ‘OK’ to add the new account.

Now you are ready to join a chatroom.  Go to File –> Join Group Chat… Choose the account you just created from the account dropdown list if it isn’t already selected.
Type in the chatroom name such as ‘supportchat’ or ‘ita_cyber_defense’.  The server must be set to “muc.setup.iseage.org”.  Handle will be your nickname upon joining.

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Repeat the last step for every chat room you want to join.

Congratulations! You’re finished!

Tutorial: Connect to Support Chat with Mac OS X Messages

Here is a quick guide for connecting to the support chat server with Mac OS X Messages application.

First, launch messages and go to Preferences –> Accounts.  Click the ‘+’ to add an account.

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The account name should be <your_username>@iseage.org as shown in the following screenshot.  The server should be “setup.iseage.org”:

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Next, do File –> Go To Chatroom… or use the keyboard shortcut COMMAND-R to join a chatroom.  The room name will be “<name_of_chatroom>@muc.setup.iseage.org”:

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Repeat the last step for every chat room you want to join.

Congratulations! You’re finished!

Introducing the vSphere Web Client

Some teams have been experiencing some issues with editing the settings of your VMs. We’ve been trying to nail down the root cause, but in the mean time we’ve come up with an alternate solution: introducing you to the vSphere Web Client.

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So far you’ve been using the desktop-based VMware vSphere Client to log in to vCenter. There is another method for access: the vSphere Web Client, the icon for which you can find on the desktop of the RDP hop. The Web Client is new to ISEAGE this year, and will eventually become the main method of accessing vCenter as the original vSphere Client is slowly deprecated. More importantly for our purposes, it has far fewer issues with permissions.

As with the vSphere Client, you can check the box to automatically use your CDC credentials, and you’ll need to ignore the certificate error. The Web Client also has some new features not found in the old vSphere Client, so we encourage you to familiarize yourself with it; when you arrive on-site, you will be able to access the Web Client directly on your laptops.

NCDC13 Original Images now available!

The four provided images are now available for download. Keep in mind these images have vulnerabilities and should not be run in sensitive environments!

NCDC13_Web | NCDC13_Shell | NCDC13_Exchange | NCDC13_DC

These files are also mirrored here.

The VMs can be run using the free VMware Player or the non-free VMware Workstation, which may be provided by your academic institution. If you’d like to run these on a local ESXi server instead, grab VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to convert them to the correct format. (You’ll need to register a free account with VMware to download ESXi and vCenter Converter).

CDC IRC Chat

Hello everyone!

After the NCDC this weekend, we decided it would be nice to have a place to congregate and have informal discussion about the event, and about future events.  We have started a channel on IRC at freenode.  Details below:

Server:  irc.freenode.net
Channel:  #isucdc
Password: (currently no password)

Hop on and give your praises, express your concerns, and suggest improvements!