Zaid Arafeh's Blog

Find Archived Keys for a certificate, extract them and Decrypt them

Hello folks, This is the outline of the process I use for Key Recovery in Active Directory...

Author: zarafeh Date: 08/29/2013

Active Directory Certificate Services takes a long time to start/stop

Here's a small yet annoying case I worked on recently. I had two issuing CAs that seem to be healthy...

Author: zarafeh Date: 03/25/2013

You run the BitLocker Disk Prep tool and you get the error "The bitlocker Drive Preparation Tool could not find a target system drive. You may need to manually prepare your drive for BitLocker."

The BitLocker Hard Drive Preperation Tool BDEHDCFG.EXE is used to repartition disks to make them...

Author: zarafeh Date: 05/18/2012

Installing ADRMS in an AD resource forest

The resource forest approach aims to centralize enterprise applications in a dedicated AD forest,...

Author: zarafeh Date: 03/08/2012

Comparing Encryption Key Fault Tolerance Options

Users might lose access to their EFS private keys through cases, like corrupted user profiles, hard...

Author: zarafeh Date: 05/22/2011

SYSPREP Tips and Supported Server Roles

If you are trying to reproduce unique virtual machines, always check the generalize checkbox (or use...

Author: zarafeh Date: 04/18/2011

The Ongoing Debate: Should internet-facing TMG/ISA be a domain member or a workgroup member?

I have recently delivered a presentation on whether to join a TMG/ISA server to the domain or make...

Author: zarafeh Date: 01/08/2011

Unstable connectivity behaviour on Hyper-V guests

Environment: Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V Role Symptopms: VMs on a certain Hyper-V host were...

Author: zarafeh Date: 01/08/2011

Migrating ISA 2006 to TMG 2010

Before we start we have to keep one important thing in mind. ISA used to operate on 32 bit...

Author: zarafeh Date: 12/10/2010

Simple TMG Perfromance Tweaks using DNS

Boosting TMG Performance through simple DNS tweaks TMG uses Its own Built-in Name resolution Cache,...

Author: zarafeh Date: 12/02/2010

Auto-Enrollment - Avoid the challenges of making end users manage their certificates

Hello and welcome to My Blog. I am going to go over auto-enollment in Microsoft Active Directory...

Author: zarafeh Date: 11/08/2010