Tag: root

Resetting lost ESXi root password with Nutanix

The other day I was at a customer for a fresh installation of Nutanix using vSphere 6.5. And for whatever reason, when they were resetting the ESXi root password to their default, it was fat fingered. When they went to add the hosts to vCenter, they couldn't add them since...

Windows Server 2012 R2 Two-Tier PKI CA Pt. 1

Windows Server 2012 R2 Two-Tier PKI CA Pt. 1

While I have written a number of articles focused on SSL certificates and templates, I have not done a mini-series on how to actually install a Windows Certificate Authority. For this series I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2, but the steps are pretty much identical for Windows Server 2012. Microsoft...