Organizations like financial institutes mainly banks implement huge security mechanisms but at the same time they often request to disable weak protocols that can be used to exploit any vulnerability. Organizations also request to disable SSLv3 for safety of cloud. Not only ciphers or protocols, weak hashes like MD5 Hashes also need to be disabled for better security.

Using IIS crypto to disable SSLv3

In order to disable SSL 3, a serer administrator should best practices in order to ensure security. One of the best practices can be applied by IISCrypto tool from Nartac. This is done to perform the desired registry changes on a Windows Server. This makes the admins perform the necessary steps to disable SSL 3 on the server host.

Issues on previous builds

Previous MachPanel builds didn’t allow admins to disable SSLv3 directly since they stopped admins from gaining access via API. In that case, there was a error displayed, once the admin clicks on “Login to control panel” from WHMCS to login directly to MachPanel. The error and its details are:

Error: “Operation failed.Error in fetching tenant details from office 365.

Details: Error processing command: System.Management.Automation.RemoteException: Authentication Error: Unable to complete authentication request (potentially a proxy issue)

In such a case the error would only go away if you would SSL 3 back ON.

The Solution

In the modern builds of MachPanel, this feature to disable SSL 3 is fully supported. Now, you can disable weak protocols are hashes with all other MachPanel services running intact.

If SSL v3 is disabled, the following command needs to be run before Connect-MsolService command:

This fixes the previously occurring error message in the latest MachPanel build. More details on the solution can be found here.

With this solution, a good combination of efficiency and cloud security is achieved and the cloud systems can be protected from increasing vulnerabilities in the cyberspace.

MachPanel and Automation module for CSPs

CSPs opt for MachPanel because of its user-friendly approach and seamless services whether it is SharePoint migrations, Microsoft Dynamics operations, Microsoft Exchange Server migrations, Microsoft Skype for Business migrations and many other modern cloud services. It gives you the end-to-end lifecycle management of your cloud business which eventually scales your business in the right direction for future growth. The security feature is provided as a must for its customers and it is ensured for all systems. In addition to this, MachPanel provides robust Enterprise Turnkey Solutions which include Multi-Datacenter and Highly Available Exchange, Skype4B with Enterprise voice and Unified Messaging.  The whole process is seamlessly smooth from Planning to post-project support. The certified experts make it easier with quick turnaround time and easier and secure installation, up-gradations and migrations.

Get your hands on MachPanel for a worry-free experience and seamless business operations with excellent cloud security.

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The value of Data is increasing with each passing day. It is important to know what data to keep and what to discard. Yes, there is ‘value’ in data and companies correlate their business values with the data they possess. However, the hybridity of things is making data management a challenge in the upcoming trends. It is important to know how to unlock data management challenges in this era. Let’s have a look at them, one by one.

1. The Use of Automation for enforced consistency

When scaling an infrastructure, the most important factor to be given due importance is consistency. There no use to have a grown-up infrastructure and not be able to utilize to the full because of inconsistencies. Scaling up also adds more complexity. Unless the architecture supports hybrid in the first place, it gets more complicated if hybrid elements intervene within the cloud solution. Hence it is necessary to have a declarative approach for real data munity and consistency. Automation shall be utilized in a smart manner and be able to eliminate data inconsistencies.

1. Agility and Data Mobility Should be Focused

Enterprise-level data management is not easy, whether it resides on cloud, on-premises or both. Data moves from one cloud to another, and hence there arise a need for data mobility. Data requests shall emerge from various spaces and hence, it is important to plan a systematic design on where the data shall land, where shall data processing occur and where shall it reside for long-term. Making data mobility complicated with designs and API tools also makes data management difficult in the longer run.

1. Reduce Hands-On management Time

There are two phenomena created in a hybrid environment. First, applications are fragmented since components and distributed amongst two locations: on-premises and cloud. Second, it creates data explosion. There needs to be a policy driven framework for data. Cloud management requires data management in the first place. If data management takes much of your time throughout the day, cloud management is going to be a whole lot complicated for CSPs.

1. A Reliable Backup and Recovery Time

Disasters and Cyber-attacks are inevitable. It is important to have a decent backup and Recovery policy so as to keep the business running in as less time as possible. With hybrid environment, the surface area for cyber-attacks increases, hence a modern solution is necessary to be installed which is purpose-built to bring back data online quickly without needing a rehydration of the on-premises workload. It creates a positive business impact by lowering recovery time objectives in your cloud solution.

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MachPanel – The Promising Control Panel for Your Business Automation

MachPanel is a platform where you find business automation, lifecycle management, cloud automation solutions and many more state-of-the-art deployment options, all as a one window solution. It provides detailed management and Reporting of Office365 Direct Tenants to CSPs. It provides for selling Active Directory Objects in the cloud as a Hosted Service. It offers On-premise Hosted Subscriptions and Consolidated Management of O365. With Migration Tools along with SaaS & IaaS Orchestration, MachPanel is the most favorable option for all the CSPs out there.

So, try MachPanel and automate your business with most effective cloud solution in the market.

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With increasing updates from big names like Microsoft coming up every now and then, it is necessary for Control Panels to catch up on the trendy updates in time. For example, quite recently Microsoft has updated its CSP Direct billing requirements. Under this requirement, Microsoft tier 1 partners need to purchase a Microsoft support plan and they also need to demonstrate key capabilities that includes providing customer solution application and enable billing and provisioning infrastructure. If a partner is unable to meet these requirements they will have to switch to a reseller model that is selling through an indirect provider. With this in sight, automation platforms will have to make sure that their solutions enable partners to fulfill these requirements.

Being in the era of Cloud Automation, the basic need of Hosting Service Providers is to be able to transfer the services in a way that is hassle free and complete. Hosting control Panels, nowadays, come in a variety of interfaces and with competitive features. It’s important to know the trendy features of 2018 that make any control panel a considerable option. Let’s have a look

On Premises/ Hybrid Marketplace

In the current era, a lot more customers would want to showcase their products and apps so that they can be sold from a platform. A good Hosting Panel would always give you an option of creating a marketplace for your customers.

E-commerce flows

Giving the option to resellers about their ecommerce flows and making the sales productive, is the current need of Cloud Hosting Control Panels.

Accounts management

Tier based account management is the trend of today. A good Hosting Panel offers 3 tier accounts management, that is account management for Providers, resellers and customers. In this way, the hosting providers know which accounts to give more personalization to.

Branding and customizations

Hosting Panels of today need to cater the need of customization and branding in case of resellers and offer them more flexible options to tailor things according to their business needs.

R&D team: Rapid and fast development life cycle

With this option, the Hosting Service Providers are able to experience fast and Rapid development life cycle experience. A Good Hosting panel is able to give you the opportunity to keep ahead of the competition.

Support (Product and enterprise level)

An ideal Panel is able to provide you a good after sale support. This includes the Product support and support at enterprise level after the deployment of a turnkey solution.

Self-service portals

It is necessary to enable or disable services for consumers so that they can take advantage of those services in a self-service manner giving them independence and control over services like billing, invoicing etc.

Role-based Delegation

A complete Hosting Control Panel provides role-based delegation. This feature is necessary as it gives the option to assign and control different privileges of  features by administrative or non-administrative user according to their role to the related operation or management related task.

Audit and control

In order to stand out from the current market Hosting Control Panels, it is necessary to provide a robust auditing system in which there is more control and transparency of the internal system making the reviewing and inspection processes easier. It should also provide the monitoring support in order to make monitoring clean and transparent.

Anytime, Anywhere

The ability to be accessible from any device and location is the need of current business. Accessibility is the main factor in today’s Control Panels. The support shall be given cross platform and across all devices.

Save time, minimize efforts

A clutter-free control Panel saves you a good amount of time and money. With options of bulk operations and group tasks, it is easier to do more work in just a few clicks and hence save time and efforts.

Billing and Reporting

A seamless way of providing billing and analytics to consumers can make the Hosting Control Panel the best in the market. Giving the feature of decent reporting with few clicks can make things manageable and easy for businesses.

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Configuration management with third party plugins

Businesses grow and as a result, they find a need to include third party plugins. A good Hosting Control panel must always have room for third party integrations and should provide help and support for such integrations as well.

Easy-to-use

The most important feature of a Hosting Control panel is its interface. There is no alternate to a clean and neat interface where it is easy for the consumers to get their hands on the features to use. Users are not able to use half the features of a complicated, yet robust interface. In order to deliver features efficiently, the interface needs to be hassle free.

MachPanel – where you find all the answers

MachPanel is one solution that inhibits the trendy features of 2018 for a successful Cloud Hosting Control Panel. It has room for third parties with third party plugins. With MachPanel, there is a lot more to offer than just audit and control. Consumers can showcase their products and sell them effectively with integrated eCommerce flow. Not only that but billing and reporting made easier as it is just a few clicks work. Its neat interface makes it user-friendly. It manages businesses with end-to-end automation making it the best Cloud Hosting Control Panel choice of this era.

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