In this post I describe some of the settings and changes I made to make my Windows 11 and Ubuntu WSL2 into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps / SysOps on Windows.
The fire-and-forget method to update SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) automatically by uninstalling any installed version and downloading & installing the newest available version from Microsoft.
Learn how to use the Twilio SendGrid Web API v3 to send mail with PowerShell
Windows Server IIS is known for reusing DH key values, but there is a way to disable ECDH public server param reuse in Windows Server IIS and here is how.
Learn how to create strong and unique passwords in Windows using PowerShell, because the use of those unique and strong passwords is important.
Have a need for IIS in your Windows 11 development station, and now you wonder how to install IIS? Here I describe how you can easily install IIS and some modules using PowerShell
Zabbix is a great tool to monitor your website performance on IIS using Performance Counters, PowerShell and WMI.
Use a specific TLS certifictate or thumbprint for outgoing HTTPS connections because of endpoint restrictions using PowerShell.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 now has native support for IPv6! 🥳
Use PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI to get the current number of active connections to IIS websites. Monitor IIS servers in Zabbix
The following PowerShell snippet can be used to quickly install an SSL (or TLS) certificate in Windows Server. It assumes you have a PFX file and its password. The default location is Cert:\LocalMachine\My, to use for IIS websites.
