Installing NDES on the Issuing CA

The Network Device Enrollment Service (better known as NDES) is a component of Active Directory Certificate Services.  It's based on the industry standard Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) which is an Internet Draft by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).  SCEP is designed...

Backup Your Blog on Blogger

Here's a little quick and dirty post on backing up your blog on Blogger since every howto that I have seen online is a bit dated and things have moved.   But that's to be expected, things are always moving when it comes to Google.  Like all things in IT, you should make a regular backup of your blog just in case you have an oopsie, or Google determines you have violated their terms and shuts...

Research Results

Our survey was posted online for a period of one week. Following this period, data was pulled down from SurveyMonkey in the form of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Survey results were converted from text to numeric answers. All statistical analysis was conducted in IBM SPSS v23 for Linux on the OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 operating system....

Building the Issuing CA

In the last post, we went through building the root CA which followed building the domain and generating a mess of test users.  Moving along this time, we're going to start building the issuing CA for the domain and for our network devices.  Once we get through this stage, the root...

Building the Root CA

In the lab, a single Windows Server running Active Directory and Active Directory Certificate Services.  But if you haven't figured out yet, I am a big fan of overkill and never do anything only to the level of minimum required.  I always like to do everything bigger and better, as there will...

Shortening ACLs

There are two main ways of shortening ACLs and improving their readability or performance. As you know, ACLs can grow to include hundreds of ACEs and cover many pages when printed.  So any way of minimizing the number of ACEs present may be welcomed.   A shorter ACL will consume less flash memory in the form of the startup configuration, less RAM in the form of the running configuration,...

Would Anyone Like to Take a Survey?

I'm looking for a little help for a research project. There are three sections to the survey, and I need answers for all three. You shouldn't spend even 5 minutes. I'll share the results of the study once the data has been analyzed This study investigates the relationship between emotional intelligence and computer anxiety. In addition, this the study will further explore the extent that age...