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Tech Short: Data Encryption

Data Encryption is the intentional scrambling of information into unreadable form – until it is later converted back into its original form by the intended recipient. Looking for data encryption tools or info have a look below: GNU Privacy Guard – GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is an open-source implementation of the famed Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) […]

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SharePoint 2013: Upgrade to Claims Based Authentication

Claims-based authentication is an essential component to enable the advanced functionality of SharePoint 2013. To move classic-mode web applications from SharePoint 2010 Products to SharePoint 2013, you can convert them to claims-based web applications within SharePoint 2010 Products, and then migrate them to SharePoint 2013. The procedures in this post will address the issue I […]

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Firefox: Add a Trusted Certificate Authority

By default Firefox has its own certificate store from well-know and trusted commercial Certificate Authorities. So today when I pushed out an internal self signed certificate; Firefox did not reconcile it as valid. To correct this issue I did the following: Launched Firefox Opened the options panel and selected Advanced Selected View Certificates to access […]

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Custom Certificate Request Errors with 0x80094801

In my attempt to submit a CSR for an internally generated Subject Alternative Name Certificate. I encountered the follow issue when attempting to submit it to my domain’s CA I am using the ‘certreq’ method to enroll the new request.  Info on how to do this, found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625722(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_CertEnroll Each attempt I got the following message: […]

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What is this Office11ShipAssert error?

I am looking into an error being thrown in the WER directory of several Windows 7 computers running Office 2010 SP2. The error report was picked up by an IDS as communication to as communication going to watson.microsoft.com “Application Crash Report Sent to Microsoft” and thus the investigation has started. The error message is located […]

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Win32DiskImager

If you ever needed to clone a USB, SD Memory card, etc. Using Win32DiskImager is a excellent program tool for the job. Win32DiskImager, enabled you to save and restore raw images to removable media.  I have been using this for my Raspberry Pi installs and other USB Bootable media as a way to quickly backup and […]