CISM

Passed CISM exam today, yay!!

Cleaning Up CSC Folders

C:\Windows\CSC folder is the offline files folder. It has special permissions. Without the correct permission, you won't be able to delete anything in it

To delete the content of C:\Windows\CSC, you need to modify its permissions

> cd c:\Windows
> takeown /f CSC /r /a /d y
> icacls CSC /grant Administrators:F

Then you can navigate to the folder and start deleting files

Publish TeamCity via Sophos XG Firewall

I am running TeamCity product at home for my development work and would like to publish the site via my Sophos XG Firewall. TeamCity runs on the internal domain namespace and to publish it to the Internet, you need to configure it so that it recognises the external domain namespace.

I don't want to make any change on the TeamCity, and luckily Sophos can do it !

Create Business Application Rule on your Sophos Firewall make sure the "Rewrite HTML" is selected as shown below. That's it!

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

New year, 2018! New challenges!!

Passed the exam and now I am officially AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Next is Professional #StayTune

Let's Encrypt Certificate Renewal

To renew the certificate that was generated by Let's Encrypt:

1# Go to sslzero.com site
2# Use the same Let's Encrypt Key generated by the site when certificate was originated
3# Get the CSR
4# That's it

Proxy PAC Tester v.2.0

New version of Proxy PAC Tester that supports client IP address to be passed to some of the JS function that checks against client IP address.

#LoveCoding

Active Directory GUID

Active Directory GUID is stored as Byte array (Byte[]).

To convert from Byte[] to string:

string guid = new Guid(Byte[] Object).ToString()

To convert from string to Byte[]:

string guid = <string guid here>

Guid g = Guid.Parse(guid);
Byte[] gba = g.ToByteArray();

string result = "";
foreach(Byte b in gba){ result += @"\" + b.ToString("x2"); }