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by CompuHacker 1211 days ago
Yeah! I run an unpatched IIS FTP server on Windows 10 from 2016. When FileZilla stopped connecting to it for reasons I can't even imagine, I enabled SSL using some slightly modified arcane commands I found on a forum post from 2011 to generate a self-signed certificate, convert it between two different formats, and finally use it to accept connections from only some of the still available FTP clients for Windows, which excluded Windows Explorer, but only some of the time.

Why, should I not be using IIS?

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Arcane commands? Sounds like a fairly typical process to me, and a fairly typical use case. We do something similar with our Avaya CM and phone configuration and backups.
Ahhh - hello DevOps!
I hope this is humor. I really do.
I wish it was, as well.

What should I be doing?