Replacing vCenter 2.5 Self-Signed Certificate with Active Directory Issued One

Certain third party products such as XenDesktop respect the expiration date on the vCenter SSL certificate. The vSphere Client doesn’t mind so much, nor it appears does the ESX hosts, but when your VDIs suddenly can’t be reached, it’s a bad thing.

By default, vCenter will create a self-signed certificate with just the host name. [...]

CentOS 5.2 – Apache – Kerberos / Active Directory Authentication

Linux and Windows Active Directory (AD) integration has come a long ways since 2000. It is now quite easy to take advantage of Kerberos for managing authentication at the host level (user logins and such). Surprisingly, it’s just as easy to the same in Apache now.

This posting will walk you through the steps needed [...]