Category Archives: Windows

When it deals with the Windows side-o-the-house

Auto-renewed your cert and can’t find your private key?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by abounds

A pet-peeve of mine is users who purchase low-cost certs, especially when they don’t really care to maintain security. Seriously? why? So here’s a scenario for you. You purchased an SSL certificate from a certificate authority, I’ll use GoDaddy, but … Continue reading →

Posted in IIS, SSL Stuff, Windows | 8 Comments

Nuisance is SMTP in Windows 2008 Server

Posted on June 26, 2011 by abounds

There is a new feature in Windows server 2008 for the SMTP service, which about drove myself and another tech crazy today, but I didn’t find it documented anywhere! When you configure the SMTP service’s FQDN, then save and close … Continue reading →

Posted in IIS, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Migrating to Mirror (Save the RAID)

Posted on May 21, 2011 by abounds

If you read my previous posts, you know that I experienced what I’ll call a computer-instigated heart palpitation as I rebooted my computer following an ‘error’ presented by the system two weeks ago. I had two flashing drives from my … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Windows | Tagged , , , , , | 18 Comments