Certificates

vCenter SSL Certificate Issues: The One That Bit Me Three Times

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Certificate issues in vSphere environments are the most reliable source of annoying, hard-to-diagnose problems I’ve encountered. They show up at upgrade time, after hardware changes, when adding new hosts, and sometimes apparently at random. Here’s what I’ve learned after dealing with these problems across multiple client environments. The VMCA and What It Does Starting with … Read more

Exchange 2013 Certificate Management: The Part Nobody Documents Well

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Certificate issues are the most consistent source of Exchange 2013 headaches I’ve encountered across different organizations. The platform handles certificates in a specific, opinionated way — and when something goes wrong, the error messages are rarely helpful enough to point you directly to the fix. The Certificate Landscape in Exchange 2013 Every Exchange 2013 server … Read more