Category: How-To

Migrating a 2003 R2 Physical Server to Hyper-V 2012 R2 in 2018….

~ brandon

Here’s the details on how I was able to migrate a 2003 R2 server from physical to virtual.

I used Disk2VHD to convert the running physical machine to virtual hard drives. Note: Do not have it prep for the old Virtual Server software and do NOT have it convert to VHDX.  I used a temporary disk to copy the physical drives to during the conversion process. I then used a standalone Hyper-V server to mount the OS disk it had converted to VHD. Continue reading “Migrating a 2003 R2 Physical Server to Hyper-V 2012 R2 in 2018….” →

Change PFX to PEM on Windows

~ brandon

cmd

Install OpenSSL from here:

https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

Copy the PFX file to the directory you want the .pem files in. Open a command prompt as admin, change to the directory and run these commands:

To export the private key without a passphrase or password.

C:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl pkcs12 -in adams14wildcard.pfx -nocerts -nodes -out serverkey.pem

To export the Certificate

C:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl pkcs12 -in adams14wildcard.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out servercert.pem

Restart whatever service (in this case it was Tenable Nessus).