The LandPhil

Category: PowerShell

  • Firefox, Root Certificates, and you

    If you’ve ever dealt with a certificate authority (CA), you may know most of this.  If this is your first foray into it, hold onto your butts. Many enterprises stand up and run their own certificate authorities to 1) maintain control over certificate issuance, 2) maintain the security of the certificate chain, and 3) not…

  • SharePoint: The State Service

    Normally, one wouldn’t be writing this blog post. Normally, one wouldn’t be looking for the information contained in this blog post either. See, usually when you do the installation of SharePoint, you run the Configuration Wizard and the end and tell it to set up all of the basic services. We didn’t do it that…

  • PowerShell: Why can’t I sign scripts

    This was an entertaining problem and I have to share.  First off, most people just disable script signing in PowerShell.  It’s just the way of the world.  Since I’m the one “in charge” for this project, I decided that I don’t want to disable script signing.  The first question I had for our AD folks…