In my customer engagements I get a lot of questions around what tasks an organization should be doing in terms of operation and maintenance for their PKI.  So, in this blog series I am going to cover the operational and maintenance aspects of a PKI. 

Below is the list of topics I plan on covering in this Blog Series:

• Removing expired certificates from the CA Database
• Publishing the CRL for an Offline Root CA
• CA Certificate Lifecycle and Renewing CA Certificates
• Implementing Credential Roaming
• Implementing Key Archival
• Role Separation
• Certification Authority Backup
• Emergency CRL Re-signing
• Determining Expiring Certificates
• Delegating Certificate Template Permissions
• Implementing the SMTP Exit Module

If there are any additional topics you would like me to cover, please submit a comment to this blog posting or tweet me @chdelay.

I currently have a Windows Phone 8 device, specifically the HTC 8X.  One the features in this phone is Near Field Communications (NFC).  I had heard a lot about NFC so I wanted to try it out.  So, I bought some NFC tags from Amazon.  I found the tags by searching for windows phone 8 nfc tags on Amazon. It cost me about $10 for 5 tags.  Below is a picture of the NFC tags:

In order to use the tags I downloaded NFC Launchit from the Windows Phone Store. NFC Launchit lets you launch applications and perform actions when you tap your phone a NFC tag. 

So, I opened NFC Launchit.

After the application opened, I tapped on Start.

I wanted to configure or write to the NFC tag so that when I tapped it, my phone would launch my blog website.  So, I selected Launch website, from System Apps.

I then entered the URL of my blog which is http://blogs.technet.com/b/xdot509/, and tapped on the check mark.

Next, I held my phone up against the tag to write this information to the NFC tag.

Once the tag was written to, I was presented with the following screen.

So next, I wanted to test the tag and NFC Launchit.  So, I tapped my phone against the tag, and was prompted on whether I wanted to receive content, and I tapped accept.

And as expected Internet Explore launched and navigated to my blog.  I stuck the NFC tag to my laptop, and now anytime I want to open my blog I just have to tap my phone against the tag and tap accept.

-Chris

This video is Part 3 in a 4 part video series on the steps required to upgrade an existing PKI from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. Although the steps demonstrated cover upgrading Windows Server 2003, the same steps could be used to upgrade Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012. This video covers the steps required to backup a Subordinate Enterprise CA and then decommission that CA in preparation for the migration.

If you have difficulties viewing this video, you can also view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox61aZXACHQ

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This video is Part2 in a 4 part video series on the steps required to upgrade an existing PKI from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. Although the steps demonstrated cover upgrading Windows Server 2003, the same steps could be used to upgrade Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012. This video covers the steps required to complete the migration of the Root CA.

If you have any issues with viewing the video on this website, it can also be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkcM135kho

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This video is Part 1 in a 4 part video series on the steps required to upgrade an existing PKI from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. Although the steps demonstrated cover upgrading Windows Server 2003, the same steps could be used to upgrade Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012. This video covers the steps to backup an existing Root CA, which is the first step in the migration.

If you have any issues with viewing the video on this website, it can also be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdyCPF3gOJc

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