February 2018 - Sysadmins of the North

Windows Server 2016 on Hyper-V stuck at stopping

If a Windows Server 2016 guest VM on Hyper-V hangs while stopping after Windows Updates, and it won't reboot, it might be caused by the recovery debug information type set. Especially when you have moved the Windows PageFile to a different partition/VHDX.

By Jan Reilink 28/02/2018Windows Server

WordPress

Increase WordPress’ memory limit WP_MEMORY_LIMIT properly in wp-config.php

How to increase the memory limit for your WordPress website, the right way. The WordPress memory limit can be increased by the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT variable in wp-config.php. However, I see this done wrong over and over again in WordPress plugins and themes. In a worst case scenario this may even decrease the available amount of memory for WordPress! So be careful with the advice you follow. In this post I show you a correct way of setting WordPress WP_MEMORY_LIMIT and PHP memory_limit settings.

By Jan Reilink 26/02/2018WordPress

Windows Server

List all SPNs used in your Active Directory

A service principal name (SPN) is a unique identifier of a service instance. Listing duplicate SPNs is fairly easy, but how do you find out which SPNs are used for which users, computers and services? Start troubleshooting SPNs here and learn how to use setspn.exe to list all SPNs used in your Active Directory.

By Jan Reilink 26/02/2018Windows Server

Month: February 2018

Windows Server 2016 on Hyper-V stuck at stopping

Increase WordPress’ memory limit WP_MEMORY_LIMIT properly in wp-config.php

List all SPNs used in your Active Directory

Windows Server

Web applications

PowerShell