World Backup Day was a few days ago and I wanted to go into the details on my current backup strategy, and the reasons behind the way that I handle the backups of my important data. While it is not overly complex compared to other backup strategies that I have seen, it is important to have a formal process in place to ensure that data is being backed up and correctly protected. It is very easy to just assume that everything is being backed up and that is the end of it, but not properly scheduling, validating, or tracking your backups is what usually causes data loss.

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Now available for download, the AD CS on Windows Server 2022 guide for creating a Two-Tier Certificate Authority using Active Directory Certificate Services and Windows Server 2022. This guide offers a rapid deployment of a Two-Tier Certificate Authority using Windows Server.

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I ran into a somewhat annoying issue with using Mail Flow Rules with Exchange Online to modify the subject header on emails that were sent to aliases on some of my Office 365 accounts. I wanted to modify the email subject of those emails to show what alias it was meant for, and I figured I should share that process here if someone else runs into the same issue. This isn’t something that I do very often, and I was doing it wrong from the beginning, hence why I was having an issue.

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Now available for download, a version of the Building a Certificate Authority in Windows Server 2019 guide that I published in early 2020. This guide offers a rapid deployment of a Two-Tier Certificate Authority using Windows Server without advanced features.

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I posted an article about using Visual Studio Code with LaTeX earlier this year and I wanted to do a follow-up with some of the additional extensions that I have been utilizing, as well as some of the extra configuration items that I have been using as I have made this environment my primary LaTeX editor.

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Just a quick tutorial on getting Gentoo Linux running on a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 laptop. Created out of boredom as the result of being in lockdown because of COVID-19.

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The conclusion to this 8-part series on creating a Certificate Authority in Windows Server 2019 using Active Directory Certificate Services.

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What good is a Certificate Authority in an Active Directory environment if there is no way to automatically deploy the Certificates? Luckily, with the use of Group Policy and a few configuration changes to Certificate Templates, this is an easy task to perform.

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