PKI Infrastructure – Introduction & Certificate Lifetimes

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...

Issuing CA Renewal operation

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...

Generating SSL Certificates for vCenter Operations Manager 5.0

Generating SSL Certificates for usage with vCenter, Update Manager and the ESXi host is one of those tasks that keeps being push away. Accepting the self-signed certificates is fine in most situation, but getting validated certificates means a whole lot of pop-ups...

SSL cert request signed by Microsoft CA for Exim 4.10 with TLS

Here is a post I made to the Exim mailing list, on how to configure secure connectivty with TLS using a Microsoft Windows 2000 Certificate Authority. It’s a combination of using both an Open-Source application and an integrated Microsoft CA. This is a bit off-topic,...