Once the Root CA has been created, the Subordinate CA needs to be setup. This Subordinate CA is needed to do all the work for the Certificate Authority. It will issue all Certificates to the organization and handle the day-to-day operations.

The first step in establishing a two-tier Certificate Authority is the creation of the Root Certificate. The Root Certificate is the most important part of the Certificate Authority, and it is critical that this is setup properly and securely from day one.

This is the start of an 8-part series on building a Certificate Authority using Active Directory Certificate Services in Windows Server 2019. The process is quite involved, but with this guide and planning on your part, you should be able to build this important infrastructure component with ease.

I liked Windows 7 a lot, it was a great operating system that I deployed and supported very early in my IT career. An end of an era, but it had to happen.

It had a good run, but the time has finally run out on Windows XP and all its variants. It was a great OS (eventually), but ultimately it has been succeeded by more modern operating systems and better practices.

Active Directory is an incredibly powerful tool that pretty much every business relies on for user authentication and management. That doesn’t mean that people set it up properly though, and Microsoft has provided a very good guide on how to avoid those mistakes.

One of the biggest and most welcome changes to the Windows 10 1809 update and in Windows Server 2019 was the addition of the OpenSSH Client and OpenSSH Server features. Certainly, this was something that I never expected to happen, but it is a welcome change.

I recently ran into an issue with my ThinkPad while trying to run VMware Workstation 15.0 when I had the Hyper-V role installed on Windows 10 Pro 1809. Having VMware installed at the same time as having the Hyper-V role installed is not an issue, but it is not possible to run both at the same time.