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 [...]

AD Recycle Bin Tool

Last year Windows IT Pro magazine highlighted ADRecycleBin from Overall Solutions. It’s an excellent free utility to bring back deleted items (or reanimate for earlier Active Directory installations than 2008 R2). It’s a very nice alternative to the built-in feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 and is a drastic improvement over item recovery in earlier versions of [...]

Jetable E-mail Addresses

I’m not sure if there’s another industry out there that requires the sheer amount of access-based content that the IT industry does. What I mean by access-based content is information that requires a a login, signup or tithe (in the form of your e-mail address) for entrance to, or downloads of, eBooks, white-papers, files, blogs, forums, [...]

Microsoft Case Studies

Need that extra push to get a budget approved. Perhaps you need ammo to bring into fruition (or shoot down) the latest whim of those in executive row. Microsoft Case Studies may have your answer. Divided by Industry, Business Need, IT Issue, etc., with searchable fields as expected, there is a good amount of video and downloadable [...]

Microsoft Learning Snacks

You may have guessed it already, but they’re bite-sized videos for learning quite a few of Microsoft’s products. Click here for a full list of what’s available, all that is required is Silverlight for viewing. I’m currently watching the eleven videos for Windows 7, part of my studies for an upcoming certification exam, and they’ve [...]

Say Ninite

(Re)building systems can be quite a drag, especially once you get to the part when it’s time for downloading all the 3rd party software. This would include: Flash, Java, Firefox, Skype, etc., etc. Enter Ninite, an amazing, time saving, utility website. It works as advertised, allowing you to choose your choice of applications, whereupon it [...]

Google Website Backup

Google offers a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but this isn’t really one of them. And yet, in a fashion they do. A good friend of mine recently lost a rather good blog post due to a server issue (it was on a Linux box, so I’m not sure how that could ever [...]

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