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Modify Default Policy for Automatic Certificate Request (Group Policy)

December 22, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Certificate Template, Microsoft | No Comments

Greetings, today we are going to modify the Default Policy Group Policy Object to set domain member computers to automatically request a machine certificate. This assumes you already have a Domain and Certificate Services setup and ready to use for this. If you need to setup your domain or certificate services still, please refer to […]

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Create Certificate Template for VMware Certificate Authority

December 13, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Certificate Template, Homelab, Microsoft, VCF, VMware | No Comments

Greetings, this time we are going to be creating a Certificate Template for VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA). This would allow you to use VMCA to issue certificates for your VMware environment. This is based on the following article: Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL certificate creation in vSphere Open Certificate Authority Select Certificate […]

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Building an VCF Offline Depot in Windows using IIS

December 1, 2025 | Homelab, Microsoft, VCF, VMware | No Comments

Greetings, today we are going to be setting up an Offline Depot using Windows and IIS. This is going to assume you have already deployed an Windows Server. You will want an additional drive added with 1TB of space for current and future downloads. You will need: 1TB added drive. If your limited on space, […]

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Install an CA Server for Home Lab (Part 1)

November 26, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Homelab, Microsoft, VCF | No Comments

Today we are going to be setting up a Certificate Server for the new domain in my home lab. This is part of the systematic rebuild of the lab so that I can write these articles to document the process to potentially help others and for a record of my own on the next rebuild. […]

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Deploy Windows Server 2022 and Build Active Directory Part 1: Building the Windows Servers

November 11, 2025 | Homelab, Microsoft | No Comments

This will be the start of a series of articles for the rebuild of my lab to properly document the build process. This will start here with Active Directory on Windows Server 2022, building a new Certificate Server on 2022, then continue into VCF oriented steps such as the offline depot, deploying the VCF installer, […]

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