Secure Sockets Layer – SSL provides a layer of encryption between a website and web browser. SSL is also used in software applications, including email, such as Gmail, Outlook, and Mac Mail. Today, Comodo remains the largest distributer of SSL certificates having nearly 35% of all the Internet market share.  The purpose of SSL on a website...

GLFTPD is an extremely lightweight, powerful, and reliable free FTP server application designed for *NIX based systems. As of today, GLFTPD is one of the only free options for free FTP server software to be used on the latest version of Mac X (10.11 El Captain). GLFTPD uses the latest security wrappers for SSL. GLFTPD continues...

SQL is a programming language designed to efficiently manage structured data – most commonly for web applications. When you first install SQL Server (for Windows, in this case), you automatically create an SQL instance. This is known as the default instance. Think of this as your main SQL service application running on your server. The default...

You may receive the following error message in Microsoft Access:   Microsoft Office Access can’t open the table in Datasheet view.   The Connect property of the table does not have enough information about the File DSN or the connection properties.  You may also receive the following error if you try to call an ODBC  [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired (#o)   First,...

A Service Principal Name (SPN) is a unique name identifier for a service instance. Similarly, think of an SPN like a DNS CNAME record. An SPN is a pointer to a domain account. It is an identifier to get to a listening process. For example: COOL/Service1 is an alias for domain account RBAC.LOC\MyAccountCOOL/Service2 is also an alias...