With this first post, I will start a small series of blogs on how to install and configure a Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). There are plently of other set of articles on the internet on how to setup PKI solutions on Windows Server and Linux. But I’m...
There is a german proverb “Ubung macht den Meister” that I have always tried to apply to my day to day computer science skills. While dealing with my Public Key Infrastructure in the home datacenter (#HomeDC), this means having a proper multi-tier PKI...
Working with Windows is not always easy. Windows has it’s quirks. One of them is that sometimes some server will show up in management consoles in Uppercase, and others in lowercase. Microsoft keeps saying that Windows will recognize both Uppercase only hostname...
I’m a big beliver of Defense in Depth, when it concerns to Information Technology Security. As such I always leave the default Windows Firewall activated, in my configs. Every so often I install a SQL Server, and I need to open the port. It’s not just...
When you use Microsoft SQL Server on a regular basis with Transact-SQL scripts, it is a sometimes useful to quickly find the proper line of code. This is a quick tip on how to activate the Line Numbering when working with Transact-SQL. I hope this will be helpful....
