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Distributing SSL Certificates to All Browsers in an Active Directory Environment

I've generated a single self-signed SSL certificate (that expires in 5000 years). The purpose of the cert is to simply encrypt the https traffic of a trusted deno application that is accessed by a variety of web browsers on multiple corporate…
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Is it Debian really more stable for servers than Ubuntu LTS?

I am looking for a pertinent answer regarding Ubuntu versus Debian for servers when it comes to stability and security, not personal preferences. I am inclined to like Ubuntu because it is more recent packages but the guys from IT are saying that…
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How do people package internal software to their production servers?

We build .deb packages and host them in a local Debian APT Repository, which we then use Puppet to manage installs from. However, there is surprisingly little written about building or managing an apt repository, so I fear we're overlooking some…
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Prevent user "click-expansion" of Exchange distribution group?

I am a Unix guy who recently picked up powershell to help my Exchange admin coworkers implement a challenging project in Exchange 2010. (The requirements we've been given are challenging if not impossible to meet.) I'll try to keep this simple.…
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Visual Studio 2015 full completely offline distributive

I'm wondering is there a way to download all external components of VS 2015 (Apache Cordova, Android SDK, Python tools, lots of JS libs etc) to create a complete and offline installer? Preferably I want to find a way to create such "distro"…
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Configure SCCM so that files with a plus symbol (+) in the filename can be downloaded from the distribution point

We are using Microsoft SCCM 2007 to deploy program packages in our network environment. One of the packages (MathType, in case anyone's curious) has a lot of file names with a plus symbol + in them. When a package is downloaded to a client machine,…
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Low-maintenance Linux distro for "info screen"?

What Linux distribution would you recommend for a host with sole function of displaying an informational WWW page to the public with minimum maintenance? The hardware is a rather simple PC with LAN connectivity. Its only function would be to connect…
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Is there a standard for running audio/video over CAT5/CAT5e UTP?

I want to use CAT5e UTP cabling to carry audio and video over distances of maybe 150 feet or so. I plan to use the CAT5e cable as follows: one wire pair for a composite video signal one wire pair for the left audio channel one wire pair for the…
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Using GlusterFS for simple replication

newbie question. I need to build this: /shared folder ~500GB of files, ~1MB each one. Two boxes (server1 and server2) connected by a 1Gbs LAN Every box needs to get r/w access to the files, so their are both clients I want that the files…
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Certificate distribution and management

I am planning to setup PKI for our organization as we're fed up with all of these security warnings when using self-signed certs. I want an offline root CA and two issuing CAs and I want to set that up on Linux systems. How can I easily distribute…
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How do I automate complex software distribution?

Our customer has solution that includes several products that cooperate with each other. When we update any part of the solution we have to provide administrator’s guide for every operating system (XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 e.t.c.). Guide…
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Get the distro and version of servers

Possible Duplicate: How do I find out what version of Linux is running? What is the best way to get the flavor of linux installed on any server? For example if the server is RedHat or CentOS, I can simply do: cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS…
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How to prepare a custom installation of Windows 7 for cloning to a dozen machines with various hardware configurations?

I would like the image to detect and install storage controller and video drivers for a limited but varying set of machines, known ahead of time. Windows 7 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I would like to activate each restored instance…
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Is Macports as good or as bad as I get the impression?

Among Linuxes, keeping up-to-date with MacPorts struck me as being most like Gentoo (arguably the least Mac-like entry on the shortlist of major Linux distributions). But after further experience it seems not to be exactly like Gentoo: with Gentoo,…
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How to distribute a custom WinPE disk

I'm looking into creating a WinPE disk that runs a custom cleanup utility that can be distributed to clients. I'm hoping to get some clarity on how companies legally distribute custom WinPE disks without getting heat from MS. I've been told that if…
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