Getting Started with Windows Azure: Part 4 Creating a Virtual Machine from...
So, in my previous blog posting I covered how to create your first Virtual Machine in Windows Azure IaaS. In that blog posting we used the QUICK CREATE method. In this blog posting, we will be...
View ArticleGetting Started with Windows Azure: Part 5 Getting Familiar with the Windows...
Now, that we have created our first VM we want to get familiar with the Management Tools. For the purpose of this blog posting, I will be covering the Management Tools presented by the Web Interface....
View ArticleWindows Phone Awesomeness
Wow!!! It’s pretty awesome to see the continued evolution of Windows Phone! I have posted in the past about some really cool features such as NFC and DataSense. But recently there have been a lot of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Devices Security, Virtual Smart Cards Part 1: Introduction and...
Given the recent breaches on companies both large and small, there has been an increased focus on security and secure authentication. This combined with the adoption of mobile devices to increase the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Devices Security, Virtual Smart Cards Part 2: Deployment
Deploying Virtual Smart Cards I am going to cover how to deploy Virtual Smart Cards. In this section I am going to perform a simplified deployment using Active Directory Certificate Services and...
View ArticleSecure Administrator Workstations
Are you a systems administrator for your organization? Do you have an administrative account that is a member of a privileged group such as Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins? Do you use that account...
View ArticleTransitioning Your PKI to SHA2
Background Hashing Algorithms Hashing Algorithms take variable input and provide a unique fixed length output. Hashing algorithms have a number of desired properties. Those desired properties include...
View ArticleAdministrator Workstations
I had previously published this information to my blog and accidently removed it from here. Re-adding the posting. I hope to find time to update this for Windows 10 in the future. Windows 10 has a...
View ArticleSteps for renewing NDES Service Certificates
For those organizations that used the Network Device Enrollment Service run into is the process for renewing the certificates for NDES. I never was able to find good instructions on how to do this. So,...
View ArticleUpdate to Microsoft’s SHA1 Deprecation Policy
See: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/04/29/sha1-deprecation-roadmap/ -Chris
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