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How to verify certificates with openssl

Troubleshooting

How to verify certificates with openssl

From time to time it may be necessary to verify what certificate is being presented by the server that you are connecting to. Sometimes this is a SMTP server or it could be a web server. While there are multiple methods that can be used to validate a certificate presented

Useful Commands - Pt 3.

Useful Commands - Pt 3.

In this installment of useful commands we will look at checking SSLBindings, viewing installed software and checking Exchange Transport Rule update times. Command 5 Recently while working on a issue where IIS certificate bindings were getting reset on Exchange. When working on a single server this isn't too

Useful Commands - Pt 2.

Useful Commands - Pt 2.

In this installment of useful commands we will look at monitoring Mailboxes for item counts and size as well as managing wireless LAN profiles. Command #3 Getting a count of how many items are in a mailbox can be accomplished very easily using Exchange PowerShell. Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity testuser | Where-Object {$_.Identity

Ensuring Exchange services are running in a lab

Ensuring Exchange services are running in a lab

In my job having access to a fully functional Exchange environment is highly beneficial as it allows me to test out various things in a non-production environment. Unfortunately this presents a bit of a challenge though as I need to balance out functionality as well as personal cost. Last summer

Useful commands

Troubleshooting

Useful commands

Today it occurred to me that there are commands and code snippets that I keep having to hunt down that I should start documenting for myself but also for others who might benefit from having them. Below is what I hope to be the beginning of an ongoing series of