Jun 27 2018
I have been talking about Enterprise PKI and how to build a multi-tier PKI infrastructure, but never talked in depth about the Authority Information Access (AIA) and Certificate Revocation List Distribution Point (CDP) extensions. In this article I want to extend the discussion about this certificates extensions since they are very important to understand and how …
Dec 17 2017
Looks like VMware Workstation got to version 14, and starting with this version we get a new neat feature, and that’s support for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Previous to this, if we wanted to run VCSA in VMware Workstation we had to import the appliance from the .OVA template, then
Nov 28 2017
When building either an Enterprise Certification Authority or a Standalone Certification Authority we have to provide some information during the configuration wizard. In this article, a short one I must say, and a completion of the two mentioned above,
Nov 21 2017
Many times, especially in a development environment you need to share your VMs with a partner company or with an external contractor but you don’t want those machines to work like forever or be modified. You will want to put some restrictions on them.
Nov 13 2017
As you probably know, in a domain environment there is a domain controller that is special compared to the others. This domain controller, besides other functions also keeps the time in sync in the entire domain/forest; meaning all the workstations, servers, and the rest of the
Oct 27 2017
Server 2016 is out for a while now, so I thought it will be a good time to write about one of the new features that Microsoft implemented in their latest server operating system for which I was really hopping for. They called it Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade.
Oct 10 2017
We started deploying our VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) either with an embedded PSC or an external one, and once the deployment was finished we noticed that we can’t use our Active Directory domain credentials to log in into vCenter. The only way we can get in is by using the
Oct 03 2017
You’ve migrated your domain to the latest version, but did you really? I’m asking this question because I’ve seen a lot of Active Directory environments migrated but not at 100%. Before making my point here, let me start with a little refresher for those that forgot about SYSVOL.
May 09 2017
I must say that VMware has done a great job with the vCenter server appliance. Not only is easy and fast to deploy but it also gives us the ability to change its certificate using a nice menu screen that they called it vSphere 6.0 Certificate Manager. As you know, changing certificates
Apr 26 2017
As you know, starting with vSphere 6.0 VMware introduced the Platform Service Controller (PSC) which changed quite a bit how their Data Center applications interact with each other. They are all tight to the PSC, because the PSC is the one that deals with the identity management, generation of SSL certificates, license keys, global permissions,
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