I've been meaning to post this for about a year. I'm doing it now just in case it's still relevant and useful for anyone. I was working with a customer getting a vRA (7.3.1) PoC environment deployed for them so that they could run some penetration tests against it. For those tests to be fully representative, they understandably wanted to use their standard VM templates for the Windows-based IaaS components of vRA. One of these templates configured IIS as part of the standard installation. Going through the vRA deployment process (not with LCM, but manually) a problem was…
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Previously, I setup an offline Root CA in my homelab with the intention emulating a PKI setup that many enterprises seem to run. The second stage of this process is publishing the Root CA certificate and CRL in a place that they can be accessed when the Root CA is offline. If you recall, I configured the Root CA to publish its CRL etc to a location on pki.o11n.lab. I now need to create that. The Server Rather than run my lab's online CA on a domain controller, which might be tempting but causes other issues, I have…