Overview Install and Configure Root CA First need to temporarily add your account as member of “Enterprise Admins” Add AD-CS Role and management tools Install and Configure Issuing CA First make sure the newly created Root CA certificate has been added to the local machine trusted root certificate store on the domain joined computer and remove […]
Download Windows 10 ISO Directly Using BitsTransfer
In this post I want to download a Windows 10 ISO file without having to use the Media Creation tool. Normally when we navigate to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO , we’ll see only one option to obtain the latest version of windows 10, which is to download the windows media installation tool. But I want to download an […]
[SOLVED] VSCode PackageManagement Error
Started getting the following error in VSCode recently: I ran Get-Module -ListAvailable PackageManagement | fl and saw I had an old PackageManagement v1.0.0.1 version installed Problem was when I clicked to update the version, I was met with the following error that it could not resolve the PSGallery This is because my system was behind […]
How to Extend Windows Server 2016 Evaluation Period
Do you know what happens when windows server evaluation expires? Well I found out Windows will automatically shut down after a set period of time. This can pose some challenges if you’re running dependent services on your evaluation server. In my case, I was using two Windows 2016 servers for Active Directory and DNS. I […]
Download ISO Directly to your ESX Host
Updating ISOs for spinning up new VMs is such a chore only because I first have to download the image from the internet, usually to my laptop, and then transfer it to my VMWare datastore. Some of these ISOs are 6GB in size, making the process a lot like watching a toaster make toast. So […]
Resolving Merge Conflicts in VSCode
If you have a merge conflict when you pull incoming changes, you can resolve them right in vscode by clicking view>command palette and start typing “merge confict” .. and you’ll see all the choices there. You can see below in the code where the conflict was highlighted. In this case I wanted to update my […]
Using Multiple SSH Keys in Windows 10
First, generate your SSH key for each service… Then, associate the generated key with your Windows login by adding it to the OpenSSH Authentication Agent service. This enables In my case, the command failed with the following error: Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory I tried to start the service but found […]
Using PuTTY ssh keys with OpenSSH on Ubuntu
Anyone who needs to access a unix/linux/osx machine from windows via ssh will be familiar with PuTTY, the free ssh client. PuTTYGen, available to download here, is a handy utility for creating RSA/DSA public/private keys for authentication. If you have generated your RSA keys using PuTTYGen, and would like to use them with OpenSSH on […]
How to configure a static IP address on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7
My system is configured to use DHCP. How can I switch from DHCP to static IP address on CentOS 7 desktop system? How do I setup a static TCP/IP address on my CentOS Linux 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 server using command line option? On CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 one need to […]