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PKI, Windows Server2024-03-142024-03-21

Generate CSR on Windows Server

Surprisingly, generating a properly-formed Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is not as common knowledge amongst admins as would appear at first. In this post we review how to properly generate CSR on Windows Server. Or, for […]

Active Directory, Certification Authority, PKI, PowerShell2024-02-132024-03-23

Migrate Microsoft CA to New Server

Today we explore a procedure many admins seem to despise – that is, to migrate Microsoft CA to new server. Yes, this is a proven fact. Many admins, for various reasons, seem to prefer to […]

Active Directory, Certification Authority, PKI, PowerShell, Windows Server2024-02-012024-02-03

How to Install Microsoft CA on Server Core

This is a basic walkthrough on how to install Microsoft CA on Windows Server core versions with no GUI. Microsoft’s Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) allows organizations to build a public key infrastructure (PKI) […]

Ansible, Automation2024-01-312024-03-18

Ansible for Beginners Tutorial Part 3 – Hello World Playbook

Welcome to part 3 of our Ansible for Beginners Tutorial. In part 2 of this series, we configured VS code as our Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool to help with our Ansible coding. Now that […]

Ansible, Automation2024-01-312024-03-12

Ansible for Beginners Tutorial Part 2 – Configuring VS Code

Now that we have Ansible installed and functional on our Ubuntu Server, we are ready to start configuring VS code as our Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool to help with coding. You can use an […]