The Password complexity is a Local Policy setting named “Passwords must meet complexity requirements” under Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Account Policies/Password Policy. In a Server Core installation, there is no graphical user interface to set this policy.Instead, use secedit to import and export the security settings from a Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 and later Read More
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How to Disable Sync in SharePoint / Teams Site
Option 1: Disable sync at the library level If you want to generally allow synchronization in your environment, but restrict specific libraries from being synchronized, you can disable sync locally, for a given document library. Here is how to do this: Navigate to the library where you want to disable sync, then click Gear Icon > Library Settings Click on Advanced Read More
How to Boot Microsoft Surface from a USB device
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
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
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