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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 […]

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Uninstall Software using WMI

I touched on this in a previous post here.  Where I needed to remove some software which was installed but was no longer listed in add/remove software of the machine I had been working on. Fortunately by using WMI we can get the necessary info  and tool to remove / change software we no longer […]

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Facebook Chat with Encryption

I know one of the first questions that come to mine are why  do you feel the need for encryption, especially in instant messages on something such as Facebook? Well what if I wanted to discuss something of nature which I deemed as being sensitive and personal. Yes! Sometimes the man who shares things what’s […]