For the enterprise sys admin by the enterprise sys admin
9
Dec
I came across this very useful free tool for alerting when a certificate that has been issued by an internal Microsoft Certificate Authority is going to expire (SCOM can do this too but this is a good alernative). In the words of the developer: The Certificate Expiration Alerter helps IT departments monitor the expiration status [...]
Tags: alerter, Alerting, CA, certificate, Expiration
7
Oct
During a new deployment of a Certificate Services, I needed to increase the validity period of the CA certificate issued from the root (and offline) CA to the issuing CA (online and domain joined). By default this is only valid for 1 year. After unsuccessful hunting around the GUI options, I realised that this is [...]
Tags: CA, certificate, certificate authority, certificate services, valid, validity period
4
Nov
We’d rolled out Office Communicator 2007 R2 across the environment, however a handful of machines were getting the ‘Cannot synchronize address book’ error and when expanded the entire error message was ‘Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book. This may be because the proxy server setting in your web browser does not allow access to [...]
Tags: address book, CA, Cannot synchronize, Cannot synchronize address book, Certificates, CRL, CRL Distribution Point, OCS, OCS / Lync, Office Communicator