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Let’s Encrypt Certificates and Remote Desktop Services

By Ryan Dorman | March 29, 2023March 30, 2023 by Ryan Dorman

Background With the potential of SSL certificates in Chrome being considered expired after 90 days and the inevitable downtime from not renewing a certificate in time, its time to get serious about automating the renewal and installation of certificates on all platforms. This process is well honed for popular webservers but other applications require custom solutions. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services relies heavily on trusted SSL certificates to function properly. I’ve worked on two methods of…

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Palo Alto GlobalProtect HIP Checks on iOS with JAMF

By Ryan Dorman | November 24, 2020December 19, 2020 by Ryan Dorman

If, like me, you use Palo Alto GlobalProtect to ensure the safety of your network you may wish to extend that protection to iOS devices like iPhones and iPads. One of the best features of GlobalProtect is HIP checks which can ensure that only devices that meet your management and security standards can connect to your VPN. In order to facilitate HIP checks with iOS devices you must use MDM to push the VPN profile.…