How to extend TinyMCE in Piranha CMS?
How to extend TinyMCE 5 editor in Piranha CMS and add extra plugins to your project.
How to add a trailing slash in Umbraco 8
This article shows you how to add a trailing slash to URL’s in Umbraco 8, using IIS URL Rewrite Module, without breaking the Umbraco backend. Forcing one particular URL avoids duplicate content, which is important for SEO.
Adding VirtIO drivers to Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)
How to customize your Windows System Restore If you need to add VirtIO drivers to your Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) to recover your Windows virtual machine, here is how. The following steps come in handy if you found out the hard way you don’t see any disks in Windows RE after a hard crash. …
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Retrieve SSH public key from Active Directory for SSH authentication
How to configure SSH public key authentication for Windows Server in Active Directory (AD)? If you want to be able to log on to your Windows Servers through Win32 OpenSSH, you can make use of SSH public key authentication through a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. But if you have tens (hundreds) of servers and/or users, perhaps it’s …
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Install SQL Server cumulative updates silently
Installing SQL Server cumulative updates is always a cumbersome, and quite daunting task. Unpacking and running the CU installer is a slow process, you have to click through a lot of screens, and it’s hard to get it to install silently. But here is how!
Remove computer object from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in PowerShell
Here is a short PowerShell snippet for you to remove a computer object from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
How to add, list and remove IP addresses in Windows Firewall
Yesterday, I showed you how to block IP addresses in Windows Firewall using PowerShell. This comes in handy when blocking IP addresses that are brute-force attacking your servers. In this short post I’ll show you how to bulk add IP addresses in Windows Firewall, list an IP address and how to remove all IP addresses …
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Block brute force attacks on SQL Server, block IP addresses in Windows Firewall using PowerShell
This PowerShell solution blocks IP addresses that are trying to brute force your SQL Server logins, by blocking IP addresses in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security. For the time being, some manual labor is involved, but it is still manageable. You can use this to create your own solution to block offending IP addresses …
Windows Defender: Turn off routine remediation
Long story short: During the transition of antivirus software to Windows Defender Antivirus (WinDefend), I don’t want Windows Defender remediation on threats it might find. Later, when I have more information about potential threats, I can always choose to remediate that threat, e.g. quarantaine or remove it. Unfortunately, there is no PowerShell cmdlet to configure …
How to enable HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022
With the release of Windows Server 2022, there is now native support for hosting HTTP/3 services. Jeej! In short, here are the few steps you need to perform to enable HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022. I can’t provide you with full details and how-to’s, as I don’t know your network.
How to share OpenSSH keys with WSL in Windows 10
Don’t want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL Linux? Or generate new ones? Then share your Windows OpenSSH key with WSL! The OpenSSH config gives you the option to share keys using an IdentityFile directive. Here is how you can share your keys between Windows 10 and WSL.
Increase WMI memory to support large volume of queries
How to optimize WMI performance and memory usage in Windows Server Since I started expanding my Zabbix scripts and templates for monitoring Windows Server instances – AD, IIS and SQL Server – I found WMI was failing more and more. WMI stopped working: WmiPrvse.exe would just crash after hitting some memory limit of 512 MB. …
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How-to fix “Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.”
This is how I resolved the error message “Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.“, in my specific situation.
Install and setup IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows Server IIS
Learn how to install and configure IIS Manager for Remote Administration of your Windows Server IIS web server, in Windows 10. You can use IIS Manager to administer various components of your website through a graphical user interface (GUI), if it’s hosted in IIS.
Delete saved RDP credentials from Windows 10 Credentials Manager, using cmdkey
If you want to quickly delete all saved Remote Desktop credentials from your Windows 10 Credentials Manager, here is how:
