Batch files may be considered “old hat” by a lot of people (or a complete mystery to the younger ones!) but they are sometimes still the easiest way to execute simple jobs as they have practically no requirements other than a command shell process to run within – yes there is a strong probability that...

A: When it’s a Certificate Authority after Windows 2000.   Back Story… Those helpful chaps over at the Windows PKI Blog provided a script ( setupca.vbs ) to install a Certificate Authority on Windows Server 2008 and R2, and recently we had a request to be able to specify the expiration date of the...

NOTE: This issue has been subsequently fixed in KB237901 for Windows Vista/Server 2008 SP2 (x86 and x64). The blog entry is left for reference. This is a quick update to my previous blog entry http://blogs.technet.com/mrsnrub/archive/2009/11/19/http-sys-cryptographic-services-lsass-exe-deadlock.aspx...