SSH port forwarding in PuTTY
Posted inWindows Server

Tunnel RDP through SSH & PuTTY

Tunnel Remote Desktop (RDP) over ssh with PuTTY? Tunneling RDP over ssh comes in handy when the destination RDP port is blocked on a firewall and you need to perform remote administration on Windows Server. So here is how to set up a RDP SSH tunnel in Linux and Windows (with PuTTY).
28/04/2015Posted inWindows Server
Posted inPowerShell

Monitor Windows services with PowerShell

How to monitor Windows Servers with PowerShell. As a Windows Server and IIS administrator, you want your Windows services to run at all times. One can monitor Windows services in many, many, ways. Some of our customers websites may depend on certain services, which may be hard to monitor externally. For those Windows services that need local monitoring, I like to schedule a PowerShell script. Here is one...
10/04/2015Posted inPowerShell
Application Pool Specific Time Interval recycle settings
Posted inWindows Server

Set IIS Application Pool recycle defaults to Specific Times, not Regular Time Interval

By default, an IIS application pool (or "AppPool") recycles on a regular time interval of 1740 minutes, or 29 hours. Sometimes you want to change this regular time interval to a specific time schedule. And when you try to configure this in IIS Manager, it gives you an error. Luckily, AppCmd and PowerShell come to the rescue!
03/04/2015Posted inWindows Server