Richard M. Hicks
Blogs, Articles, and Posts
10 PowerShell Commands Always On VPN Administrators Should Know
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Managing a secure and reliable VPN infrastructure is critical for supporting today's highly mobile
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Nov 3 2023
Managing a secure and reliable VPN infrastructure is critical for supporting today's highly mobile
workforce. For Always On VPN administrators, PowerShell is an indispensable tool for achieving this goal. Not only can PowerShell be used to automate the installation and configuration of Windows Server Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) server
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Nov 3 2023
Always On VPN RRAS and PowerShell 7
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PowerShell is an essential tool for administrators supporting Microsoft Always On VPN. It is
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Sep 19 2025
PowerShell is an essential tool for administrators supporting Microsoft Always On VPN. It is
critical for configuring supporting infrastructure services, such as Routing and Remote Access (RRAS) and Network Policy Server (NPS), as well as provisioning and managing Always On VPN client configuration settings on endpoints.
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Sep 19 2025
IIS TLS Certificate Deployment with CertKit
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With public TLS certificate lifetimes shrinking to just 47 days by 2029, administrators must find
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Apr 24 2026
With public TLS certificate lifetimes shrinking to just 47 days by 2029, administrators must find
ways to automate certificate enrollment and renewal for workloads that require them. One of the most common is Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). I've been using CertKit.io to handle this process for workloads like Always On VPN and DirectAccess, so [...]
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Apr 24 2026
Microsoft AD CS Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography Support with ML-DSA
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Despite predictions of its decline, Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:May 22 2026
Despite predictions of its decline, Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
continues to evolve.
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:May 22 2026
Projects, Scripts, and Modules
AOVPNTools v 1.7.0
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PowerShell module for configuring and optimizing Windows Server Routing and Remote Access Service
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Jul 14 2023
PowerShell module for configuring and optimizing Windows Server Routing and Remote Access Service
(RRAS) for Always On VPN.
By: Richard M. Hicks submitted:Jul 14 2023
