Windows: Renew a machine certificate

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in most Active Directory Enviroments the Certificate Enrollment is active which generates and enrolls a certificate for each client. This can be used for Radius authentication or as certificate for an IIS webserver.

Typically the client renews this certificate itself.
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Windows: Install Failure: Error 997. Overlapped I/O operation is in progress

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a customer tries to install .NET 4.6.2 and it ends up in error. Errors in the installer log:
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Powershell: Method not found: ‘System.Threading.Tasks.Task System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(System.Action)’

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when you tried to start powershell and the window opens and closes immediately.

Open a cmd and start powershell by calling powershell.exe
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MySQL, MariaDB: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

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I use a powershell script to write some data to a MySQL Database table.

The time the script is running increases every day and the point is reached were it runs in an timeout 🙁
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Windows: Disable DES and Triple DES (3DES)

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a measure to protect your Windows System against Sweet32 attacks is to disable the DES and Triple DES.

To do this, add 2 Registry Keys to the SCHANNEL Section of the registry.
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