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In my lab environment I have a ‘Lab Users’ OU that I will apply this group policy to. Open Group Policy Management and right click the ‘Lab Users’ Group, select ‘Create GPO in this domain, and Link it here…’. Give it a name, e.g. ‘802.1x Group Policy’, and then navigate to ‘Computer Configuration -> Policies […]
This post will look at configuring a Windows Active Directory CA server with a certificate template for use with ISE that enables both ‘client authentication’, and ‘server authentication’ key usage. We have a simple network topology with a single ISE node, single Windows server, and a single Windows client machine. MMC Open the MMC, I […]
Now that we have an ESP32 connected to our network and running python, the next task is to connect a two switch relay and be able to control it. Eventually we will do this via MQTT, but for now a web server will be enabled on the board to allow manual control of the relay […]
In our previous post we uploaded a python script to the ESP32 to run on boot. This time we will connect the ESP32 to our wireless network. Firstly I am going to create a config.py file to store any configuration parameters we are going to use. In this case we simply have the SSID and […]
In a previous post we flashed a W32-WROOM-32 with MicroPython and successfully got to an interactive python prompt via serial. Now we will create a simple python script and upload it to the ESP32 and have it run on boot. First, lets create a really simple python script -: import time print(‘Hello world! I can […]
I have some ESP32 based boards lying around and stumbled across MicroPython, which appealed to me as I have some Python code I wanted to try and port to an ESP32 board. MicroPython supports ESP32 and any board should work, I am using an ESP32-WROOM-32. Download the firmware Download the latest version of the firmware […]