Category Archives: IIS

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

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

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Nuisance is SMTP in Windows 2008 Server

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

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