Setting up a Microsoft PFX Connector for Certificate Issuance via Intune

Certificate authentication is a common and secure way of validating the identity of users and computers. There are many such situations where certificates are used for authentication and decryption tasks, from VPN Authentication to RADIUS to S/MIME. Microsoft has worked to modernize and secure legacy tools as well as implement new services and features to…

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Creating a New Azure Tenant and Enable AD Syncing to Bring Your Organization to the Cloud

Objective In this guide we will discuss and follow the steps necessary to create a new Azure tenant and configure the necessary tools to sync your on-premises accounts stored in a local Active Directory configuration with Azure Active Directory. Reasoning As business evolves we are seeing more necessity to migrate applications and services to Cloud…

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Setting Up A Secure Tiered Active Directory Domain Services using Windows Server 2016

Prerequisites A dedicated Windows Server 2016 device physically networked to your Tier 0 Network Tiered Network Setup Completed [Haven’t setup your network yet?] Physical Setup We are going to be installing our first Domain Controller on a local physical server. This guide can also be performed in a virtual server. We have already installed our…

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Initial Unifi Controller/Firewall Setup for Tiered Security Model

Hardware Used UniFi Dream Machine Unifi 24 Port Switch Unifi AP Windows 10 Client Windows 10 Server Premise and Setup The first step in creating a secure homelab (or any envrionment for that matter) is to ensure proper physical and network controls between devices. We do not want to rely on local device firewalls, instead…

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