I am going through and cleaning up the main website, I have this problem of half writing articles, and just leaving them within the nuke content module and just moving onto something else when I get bored. As well, I have some formatting stuff on some of the articles that was pretty poor, it doesn't [...]

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For organizations that have certain security standards, it is customary that the common name on certificates must match the host name of the machine. Furthermore, wildcard certificates are generally unacceptable because of the broad reach that such a certificate implementation could have.
The solution that most organizations will take in light of these considerations is to use a subject alternative name [...]

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A client that I am currently helping out was concerned that the web service that a previous developer had written for him had hard coded credentials for consumption, which obviously is poor since a better security practice is to retrieve credentials from the the requesting user or call the credentials from a secure source. He [...]

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I am on my last rounds of testing the password change WebPart. I ran the WebPart at work today to see what it would to, and indeed it pooled the right user information and changed my password successfully.
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I have decided to keep it simple and not add any images to it. In [...]

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Privacy is important, especially in a collaborative environment such as SharePoint where users are heavily empowered with actions that can directly effect sensitive files and file containers. The most typical way to protect privacy for file types is to implement a form of Multi-Level Access Control, and/or native encryption components that are easy for users [...]

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