Windows 3-Tier Certificate Authority
Many months ago I was tasked with implementing a 3-tier Certificate Authority for a large Windows domain environment. Unfortunately there is surprisingly little information for the nitty-gritty questions one may have. The Microsoft Press book Windows Server® 2008 PKI and Certificate Security (this book seems to have been discontinued, thus outrageous pricing) proved quite useful, but [...]
Script Samples
There are times when I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for just the right syntax for a command or even the correct command to get the job done. Here are four I put to use in the last few months… Change Printer Spooler Service Recovery options to Restart sc failure spooler reset= 60 actions= [...]
Welcome to…
This is the second of a group of IT templates I’ll be posting from what I’ve created or gathered/modified. This one is your basic “Welcome to Company” sheet that I tyically hand out to new employees. It’s only a page long and surprising it’s actually been read more than once (unlike the typical stack of papers [...]
Company Infrastructure Template
Here’s the first of a few templates I’ve gathered or made throughout the years. The Company Infrastructure template. This “catch-all” document can be a central repository for network, system and vendor information, something to use to survey the environment for an audit, or when handing off to / indoctrinating a new IT person. Not all of [...]