In a recent series of blog posts, I walked through standing up a Certificate Authority within your Active Directory organization. As more systems moves to the cloud, you may be looking for a method to run your CA from the cloud. If you're interested in what a Certificate Authority is and how it works, I'd encourage you …
Read MoreIn this post, we'll discuss how to use the Certificate Enrollment Web Interface that we installed back in Part 2 of this series. The web interface doesn't seem to be widely used since the Certificates MMC snap-in does most of the work, but it's useful to know it's there.
Read MoreI'm going to show you how to use SQL Server Management Studio to get data from Configuration Manager. I want to thank Adam Cook and Adam Gross who both gave me the encouragement to finally put this together. For best SQL readability, make sure you're watching in HD.
Read MoreIt really didn't matter how much notice that Adobe gave organizations, there were always going to be applications that were going to live beyond the end of life. It's one of those truisms that you learn when you've been in IT long enough. In this post, I'm going to share what your experience is going to be like with …
Read MoreFinally – the moment you’ve been waiting for! Issuing Certificates! We’re going to cover three enrollments for our three different certificate templates created in Part 4.
Read MoreIn this part of the series, we’re going to start getting ready to issue some certificates, and we’re going to do that by creating some Certificate Templates. This can be done from any workstation that has domain access and has the Certificate Templates console installed (part of the Remote Server Administration …
Read MoreIn this post we’re going to setup the trust for your Root Certificate in your environment. If we think about what we talked about back in Part 1 of this series, you’ll remember that once we trust the guy at the top, we trust anyone down the chain as well. By trusting your Root Certificate, we automatically trust your …
Read MoreI'd like to tie together everything we've done so far. If you're following along, you've probably gotten through standing up two servers in a lab environment in under 30 minutes, but perhaps without understanding the implications of the changes you've made along the way. We're not going to make any changes to your …
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