SHA1 Collision Finally Occured

Well it was bound to happen eventually – the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA1) has finally been broken in so much as a team of researches at Google managed to generate a collision. If you aren’t sure what that means consider that the idea of a hashing algorithm is to take a variable length input and … Read more

Active Directory Delegate Control to User Account

I’m in the process of rebuilding my home lab and right now I have reached the point where I need to join my VMware ESXi hosts to the Active Directory infrastructure that makes up my lab domain. To do this I will setup a service account with delegated control to join computers to the domain. Delegation … Read more

Working Towards An A Rating on SecurityHeaders Report

I’ve long been meaning to update the settings on my blog to improve my rating on the fantastic https://securityheaders.io website. It was created by Scott Helme and aims to help improve the security of a website by providing a rating based on certain attributes. First off let me show you the initial report – it is the source … Read more

Website Migration Fun

Well the new year is here, I can’t believe it is already 2017! During the festive season I had to renew my web hosting and domain registration. Both previously sat with Bluehost and while it was ‘alright’ I had some frustrations especially with frequent notifications that my site had gone down. This is never a … Read more

HPE Discover 2016 Pictures

Well HPE Discover in London was awesome – I must have left an impression last year as various HPE reps around the event remembered me. There was so much to see and I wish I’d taken more pictures but I spent more time talking to people. Let’s take a look at some of the pictures … Read more

VMware vRealize Log Insight SSL Available To All

VMware Log Insight (vRealize Log Insight: Intelligent Log Management & Analytics) is a nice product and it’s certainly been useful in my environment. There was however one major issue I had with the product, you had to upgrade your license to gain the ability to replace the default self-signed SSL/TLS certificate on the web interface. … Read more

Microsoft Server 2016 and System Center and SQL Oh My!

Well it’s finally here – Microsoft Server 2016 has been released and is now generally available (GA). I’ve been messing around with the technical previews since they first came out and I eagerly awaited the final release. It is now time for me to start rebuilding a large portion of my home lab environment and … Read more

HPE Discover -London 2016

Really happy to have been invited to the HPE Discover event in London this year. I got an invite last year and really enjoyed my time there. It’s a great opportunity to see what HPE and their partners have planned and all the new hardware and software we can wish to play with. I hope … Read more