Archive | October, 2015

Reconfiguring Microsoft Exchange Server To Use SAN Certificate With Only External Domain Names

Exchange

A typical Microsoft Exchange solution for SMEs might look like this: Consequently a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificate will probably contain the following entries: itexch01.itfountain.local itexch02.itfountain.local autodiscover.itfountain.com mail.itfountain.com The internal names are usually used for the Client Access Server (CAS) role and is what Outlook will connect to. For this reason the internal server names must […]

VMworld 2015 Europe Experience

VMware

I was lucky enough to attend the VMworld Europe in Barcelona earlier this month so I thought I would write a quick review of the experience. My company is looking at several virtualisation projects so I thought it would be a good idea to to go along to the biggest virtualisation conference.  I got to Barcelona […]

VMworld 2015 Europe

VMware

My ticket is purchased, flights are booked, hotel is booked and schedule builder is done – I am on my way to VMworld Europe! VMworld is a virtualisation conference hosted by VMware and held over 5 days in both in San Francisco and Barcelona.  VMworld brings together lots of vendors and industry experts and will […]

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in IIS

IIS, Windows

One of our developers wanted to automatically redirect http requests to https, so if a user browsed http://www.itfountain.com then they should be automatically redirected to https://www.itfountain.com. A simple enough task to accomplish with a line of configuration in Apache: Redirect permanent / https://www.itfountain.com/ Unfortunately the web server is IIS and not Apache.  Fortunately there is […]