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Certificates

“Ugh, we need to use certificates to make this work.”

Real-life quote from any admin after discovering their latest software purchase requires the use of certificates

If the quote above, or perhaps a variant more colorful than stated above, sounds familiar, don’t scrap that new project just yet! For some reason, the use of certificates seems like a daunting task to many of us, even those who have worked in IT for many years. I think this is probably because there are many different options available on a certificate server, but there is not a lot of common sense or user-friendliness built into the management console for dealing with certificates. This, combined with a general lack of requirements for certificates on servers ...

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