Download Brightcove videos

2016 update: Turns out this is the most popular article on this site – with nearly 4 years of changes to Google Chrome since it was posted, the instructions needed a little tweaking..! Brightcove typically delivers videos via a flash stream – making it almost impossible to download (as it is a stream, there is … Read more

Exchange Server 2007 – troubleshooting SSL

Some points to troubleshoot an Exchange Server 2007 SSL configuration. For god knows what reason, Microsoft decided that everything needed to be command line, so it’s pretty easy to get stuck. Starting point – find what certificates are installed Run the following cmdlet from the Exchange Shell: Get-ExchangeCertificate You should see output similar to: Thumbprint … Read more

Exporting certificates from a Java keystore

There is a patently easy way to convert JKS keystores to PKCS12 certificate bundles (and vice versa). It’s a (poorly documented) keytool command that was introduced with JDK 6: Convert JKS to P12 keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore keystore.jks -srcstoretype JKS -deststoretype PKCS12 -destkeystore keystore.p12 Convert P12 to JKS keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore keystore.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -deststoretype JKS … Read more