Even after 20 years of professional IT work, I still see Windows Server misconfigured very, very often. Microsoft made huge steps forward since Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server is now mature and stable product. However, it still needs to be configured correctly, to be able to withstand modern security threats. In this guide, we are going to look into some basic methods for making Windows Server more secure.
Read MoreIf you want ability to run virtual machines inside virtual machines (Hyper-V inside virtual machines) you need to enable nested virtualization. Nested virtualization is great if you want test various hypervisor scenarios inside VMs. We will now enable nested virtualization for Windows 11 VM inside Hyper-V.
Read MoreThere was some confusion on how to generate Web Certificates via internal PKI for Web Services. If created through web enroll, web certificates will still give errors in browsers inside domain environment. In this extra part I will show how I enroll web certificates for Windows Server and Linux Web servers.
Read MoreThis will be closing part of the PKI series, we will look into topics such as – removing old certificate authorities, reissuing Root CA CRT, backing up, and so on…
Read MoreWe are done for the most part with PKI deployment on Windows Server, it is long and tedious job, but we are at the end. We will now look at the templates and see what we can remove, and also we will establish Web Enrollment. It the next part we will look at the maintenance, and that will be the end of the PKI series.
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