As this is getting a FAQ hitting my desk about once a month now, I would like to cover the Issue, give you a solution and some background data to explain what's happening. The question at hand is: I want to renew a SSL Server certificate for my IIS7 server...

Disclaimer: Please note that getting this error is a serious hint towards an unstable system (in my case it was caused by a faulty hard drive). While the solution steps worked fine on my system, please create and test a backup of your system before trying...

You can use this to generate complex (as well as simple) certificate requests that satisfy pretty nice scenarios. For example, you can add the subject alternative names to the request that match all the web site names your certificate shouild be used...

This one was pretty interesting. Especially the fact that there is little documentation (at the time of this writing) about the selection criteria the Complete PC Backup (CPC) uses to determine what is needed for a system recovery. On my system I expected...

Here is the short version: You need at least the 3.x package of JailBreak and a working IIS Server. The .Net Framework 2.0 (or later) must also be installed on both to give you the aspnet_regiis.exe tool. On the "broken" server backup the data to...

I had the pleasure to troubleshoot this interesing issue and feel this information might be helpful for everyone dealing with code signing. You might hit this when trying to use the same keyset for strongname signing as well as for manifest and/or Authenticode...

This seem to be something a lot of people are interested in. Problem: On Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 (since the MS04-011 update) you can't use Certificate Trust Lists (CTL's) for this target. Reason: Previoously in IIS5 using...

Being back from a nice vacation in DomRep I just had an interesting issue. Upgrading to Windows 2000 SP4 from Windows 98 or Windows Me you might see problems when using the Navision Software with the German Elster Services (used to interface with the...

Hi, this is my first entry to get started with blogging. In the future this should be filling with info mainly around IIS and PKI for now. ciao, Andreas