Certificates expire; this is just a simple fact of life. Most often, I find that companies purchase SSL certificates on a short-term basis, usually for only one year. This means that every year, each certificate needs to be renewed. However, downloading a new copy of the certificate and installing it onto your web server is not enough to make it continue working. Simply putting the new certificate into place on the server does not mean that IIS is going to start using the new one to validate traffic on your website. Even if you delete the old certificate, there is no action that has been taken inside IIS to tell it that this new certificate that suddenly appeared is the one that it should start using as the binding for your site. So we have always had to make this additional change manually. Every time you replace a certificate, you also go into IIS and change the binding on the website. This seems particularly painful when you have the certificate...
Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
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Overview of this book
<p>Windows Server 2016 is an operating system designed to run on servers. It supports enterprise-level data storage, communications, management, and applications. This book contains specially selected, detailed help on core, essential administrative tasks of Windows Server 2016.</p>
<p>This book starts by helping you to navigate the interface of Windows Server 2016, and quickly shifts gears to implementing roles that are necessarily in any Microsoft-centric datacenter.</p>
<p>This book will also help you leverage the web services platform built into Windows Server 2016, available to anyone who runs this latest and greatest Server operating system. Further, you will also learn to compose optimal Group Policies and monitor system performance and IP address management.</p>
<p>This book will be a handy quick-reference guide for any Windows Server administrator, providing easy to read, step-by-step instructions for many common administrative tasks that will be part of any Server Administrator’s job description as they administer their Windows Server 2016 powered servers.</p>
<p>The material in the book has been selected from the content of Packt's Windows Server 2016 Cookbook by Jordan Krause to provide a specific focus on key Windows Server administration tasks.</p>
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
Learning the Interface
Core Infrastructure Tasks
Internet Information Services
Remote Desktop Services
Monitoring and Backup
Group Policy
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Index
Customer Reviews