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MyLab: The Certificates
Overview I am a strong proponent to securing an infrastructure with customer-signed Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates internally and only using third party certificates where absolutely necessary for external services. For this service, I am going to build a two-tier Microsoft certificate authority (CA) using Windows Server 2022. One virtual machine will be a root…
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MyLab: VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM)
Overview I am choosing to install VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) to quickly perform tasks on user profiles and save profile data. Using DEM is easier to administer user-based Group Policies than Active Directory and (I think) more predictable.
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MyLab: The Files
Overview I am choosing to install a Microsoft Windows File Server to hold shares for the domain as well as VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) configuration files and user profile information.