Prepare your certificates for the 47-day future with automated certificate management TLS certificate lifetimes are officially shrinking from 398 days to just 47 days by 15. March 2029, making automated certificate management not just a convenience but an absolute necessity. Organizations that don’t embrace automation will face operational chaos, security risks, and inevitable outages. The… Read More »
PuTTY is an open source SSH and telnet client, originally developed for Microsoft Windows by a British programmer Simon Tatham. In addition to the SSH client, the development program includes the PuTTY Key Generator, which is a utility for generating RSA and DSA key pairs to enable more secure communication and passwordless authentication when accessing… Read More »
I have have worked on a case where external access to the ADFS service was blocked and the Remote Access Management console on the WAP server fails with this error: Web Application Proxy could not connect to the AD FS configuration storage and could not load the configuration. Make sure that the Web Application… Read More »
A common misunderstand is that creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) can only be performed using tools like Internet Information Service (IIS) or the Exchange Admin Center console. On any Windows computer, you can use the Certificates MMC snap-in to create custom certificate signing requests, including wildcard and multi-SAN certificates for web server authentication. How… Read More »
From time to time you may need a custom certificate for testing or troubleshooting purposes. If you do not have access to a lab where you have an Enterprise Certificate Authority running, generating a self signed certificate is often a quick and convenient way of getting a usable certificate. As a word of caution, a… Read More »
A while after renewing and replacing the Service Communication certificate on the ADFS server, and updating the CRM Internet Facing Deployment to use the new public certificate, the Dynamics CRM Server 2013 started to throw a series of errors in the Application log every 15 minutes: First 3x event 25089: Log Name: Application Source: MSCRMMonitoringTest… Read More »