To say that 2020 has not been going well would be a big understatement. The COVID-19 Pandemic came out of nowhere and it has rapidly disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Entire countries were and still are under full or partial lock down, air travel is virtually non-existent and manufacturing is seriously impacted. I won’t even get into the economic repercussions since that will take a long time to determine once the Pandemic is finally over.

The SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 Flight successfully flew on May 30 2020 at 3:22pm EST. Despite a weather delay from a few days prior, the flight went off without a hitch.

Just a quick tutorial on getting Gentoo Linux running on a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 laptop.

World Backup Day is a yearly event which is a day of awareness for people to learn about the importance of regular backups.

The conclusion to this 8-part series on creating a Certificate Authority in Windows Server 2019 using Active Directory Certificate Services.

What good is a Certificate Authority in an Active Directory environment if there is no way to automatically deploy the Certificates? Luckily, with the use of Group Policy and a few configuration changes to Certificate Templates, this is a fairly easy task.

Certificates are not always one size fits all for an organization, but luckily it is fairly easy to customize the Certificates that are deployed to your organization.

The last thing that you ever want to deal with is losing the Private Key for an important Certificate. Luckily, this is easy to avoid with the use of Key Archiving directly to Active Directory.