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Register TLS certificate with Remote Desktop Service using PowerShell
Hello everyone! This is a quick blog post that provides information on how to register TLS certificate with Remote Desktop Services (RDS). Starting with Windows Server 2008 R2 it became extremely easy to deploy RDS certificates to AD hosts from private CA using group policies and Microsoft CA. Since then RDS over TLS should be…
Read MoreJust Released – Licensing Options for Our PKI Tools
I am pleased to announce that based on overwhelming demand, starting today we are now providing licensed and supported versions of our most popular PKI tools – PowerShell PKI Module, ASN.1 Editor, and the SSL Certificate Verifier. Available in single user or enterprise licenses and includes 12-months of support for the tool. The licensing model…
Read MorePowerShell File Checksum Integrity Verifier (PsFCIV)
Today I’m glad to announce a PowerShell File Checksum Integrity Verifier (hereinafter PsFCIV) availability as a standalone package. Years ago a friend of mine asked to develop a PowerShell script that would replace a now-discontinued Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) tool that is an essential utility to check integrity of large file shares. While…
Read MoreADCS Certification Authority Database query numbers
Hello everyone, I’m back again and today I want to share some thoughts on retrieving massive results from ADCS Certification Authority database. Point of interest As a part of my ongoing project I had to collect database statistics (simply, number of revoked, issued, pending, failed, denied requests) and my concern was query performance on relatively…
Read MoreOCSP Magic Number
The magic number is a value that states when CRLs will be processed over OCSP, specifically it is when the total number of cached OCSP responses from a single OCSP responder URL on behalf of a single certificate authority will stop performing OCSP and start processing CRLs. This will occur if the number of cached…
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