For all Surface models Before you start, make sure you don’t have any other USB devices connected to your Surface, including USB mouse devices, keyboards, or other storage drives. Surface will try to boot from any other connected USB devices. Here’s how to boot from a USB. Shut down your Surface. Insert the bootable USB drive Read More
Month: November 2023
How to Convert an SSL Certificate to Other Formats
It is highly recommended that you convert to and from .pfx files on your own machine using OpenSSL so you can keep the private key there. Use the following OpenSSL commands to convert SSL certificate to different formats on your own machine: OpenSSL Convert PEM Convert PEM to DER openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem Read More
What is The Difference Between SSL Certificate Formats? – PEM CRT DER CER KEY PFX P12 P7B P7C
PEM Format The PEM format is the most common format that Certificate Authorities issue certificates in. PEM certificates usually have extensions such as .pem, .crt, .cer, and .key. They are Base64 encoded ASCII files and contain “—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–” and “—–END CERTIFICATE—–” statements. Server certificates, intermediate certificates, and private keys can all be put into the PEM format. Apache Read More
How to Install an SSL Certificate on IIS 10 Manually
Purchased and downloaded your certificate from your certificate provider like Godaddy, Digicert, SSL.com etc.. Convert your .crt file to a .cer file Locate your downloaded .crt file, and double-click to open it. Select the Details tab, and then the Copy to File button. Select Next in the Certificate Wizard. Select Base-64 encoded X.509(.CER) and then select Next. Select Browse, locate where you want to save your .CER file, and type Read More
How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with Windows IIS 10
To create redirection rules in IIS, you must download and install the URL Rewrite Module 2.1 IIS module (https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite). Then open the Internet Information Services Manager console (InetMgr.exe) and select your site. Go to the SSL Settings section and make sure that the Require SSL option is not enabled. If not, this will cause a conflict with the Rewrite URL Read More
How to Enable SMB Signing?
SMB signing (also known as security signatures) is a security mechanism in the SMB protocol. SMB signing means that every SMB message contains a signature that is generated by using the session key. The client puts a hash of the entire message into the signature field of the SMB header. SMB signing first appeared in Read More