Windows Admin Center v2 with Certificate Cannot Load Site

Microsoft released a substantially upgraded Windows Admin Center with build 2410. Microsoft has offset it as “v2”. You can read the release announcement on the Windows Admin Center blog. You can download Windows Admin Center from aka.ms/windowsadmincenter. This article explains how to fix a condition when you use a true PKI certificate and cannot access …

How to Configure Ubuntu for Public Key WinSCP Access

[citationic] As with many of my articles, this one serves as a public “note to self” for a problem that I run into often enough to need to skip a lot of searching but not often enough to remember how to fix. I have set up a new Ubuntu server system and I want to …

Stop Using Self-Signed Certificates

The growth of digital threats has made our need for security more pervasive. Where possible, we try to use active schemes. However, private key infrastructure and certificates serve a powerful purpose and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. As threats grow, we as systems administrators need to improve the way that we …