Creating self-signed certs using OpenSSL on Windows

12th of June, 2016 / / 4 Comments

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Working with Linux technologies exposes you to a huge number of open source tools that can simplify and speed up your development workflow. Interestingly enough, many of these tools are now flooding into the Windows ecosystem allowing us to increase the portability of our development assets across multiple operating systems.

Today I am going to demonstrate how easy it is to install OpenSSL on Windows and how simple it is to quickly create self-signed certificates for our development TLS needs that will work on a range of operating systems.… [Keep reading] “Creating self-signed certs using OpenSSL on Windows”

When Will Microsoft Drop “Windows” from the Name of Windows Intune?

18th of May, 2014 / / No Comments

It has been a pleasure to observe a truly significant change in the thinking at Microsoft.  Slowly, Microsoft is realizing that not everything is about Windows anymore.  I say this as someone who is a former employee of Microsoft.  I am a regular user of Windows.  I personally think that Windows is a terrific product and brand.  I run Windows 8.1 Update 1 on my notebook.  I also run Windows VMs.

 

But we live in a world of BYOD now. … [Keep reading] “When Will Microsoft Drop “Windows” from the Name of Windows Intune?”