Once the Certificate Authority has been created it is time to deploy those Certificates to the organization. Using Group Policy with Active Directory, this is an easy task, and can deploy the Certificates to the organization in only a few minutes.

Once the Root CA has been created, the Subordinate CA needs to be setup. This Subordinate CA is needed to do all the work for the Certificate Authority. It will issue all Certificates to the organization and handle the day-to-day operations.

The first step in establishing a two-tier Certificate Authority is the creation of the Root Certificate. The Root Certificate is the most important part of the Certificate Authority, and it is critical that this is setup properly and securely from day one.

This is the start of an 8-part series on building a Certificate Authority using Active Directory Certificate Services in Windows Server 2019. The process is quite involved, but with this guide and planning on your part, you should be able to build this important infrastructure component with ease.

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting language that has been used for decades by people looking to create documents without needing to worry about the look of it. I have been using it for the last few years for important documents, and I wanted to integrate it with my favourite editor prior to undertaking a large project using it.

Just another critical step that SpaceX needed to complete for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. As usual they nailed the test.

I liked Windows 7 a lot, it was a great operating system that I deployed and supported very early in my IT career. An end of an era, but it had to happen.

Once again, I made a promise to myself that I would post a lot more often to this site, but once again a lot of things got in the way, and I wasn’t able to get as much done as I hoped. I was doing very well in the earlier part of the year, but after the middle of April I ran into a lot of issues that prevented me from focusing my attention on the site.