Windows Server
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Install OpenSSH in Windows Server
Learn how to install and enable the built-in OpenSSH Server on Windows, customize its installation directory and configure your sshd_config file.
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Windows Server
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How to remove IIS from Windows Server using PowerShell
Follow this if you have no more need for Windows Server IIS and want to remove IIS completely from Windows Server using PowerShell
Windows Server
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Basic Authentication module for Windows Server IIS 10
HTTP Basic Authentication managed module for IIS enables HTTP Basic Authentication with virtual user support in Windows Server IIS.
Windows Server
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Force BITS to download WSUS updates in the foreground in Windows Server
WSUS uses BITS for downloading updates, and it does so in background mode. Unfortunately, this utilizes remaining bandwidth of the server instead of its full capacity. To speed up WSUS downloads, you can configure BITS in WSUS to use foreground priority.
Web applications
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Hugo development environment in WSL 2
Using WSL 2 it is pretty easy to install Hugo in Windows, setting up your local webdevelopment environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu's IP address, here is how.
Windows Server
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Quickly view all symbolic links, junction points and hard links in a folder using PowerShell
When you migrate a file server and transfer data, you may need to recreate junction points, as they cannot be copied using (for example) Robocopy.exe. This makes it a must to know where you have junction points, and NTFS hard and soft links. This is where PowerShell comes to the rescue.
WordPress
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How to Fix Yoast SEO for WordPress DeleteDuplicateIndexables MySQL error
A possible fix for the slow Yoast SEO DeleteDuplicateIndexables DELETE statement that times out on large WordPress databases.
WordPress
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Count and display number of WordPress users in your Dashboard
Show the number of registered WordPress users in a At-a-Glance widget. This is particular handy as an indicator of compromise (IoC), when a hacker has registered numerous new users in your WordPress database for spam purposes.
Windows Server
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Find vulnerable WordPress plugin versions fast using PowerShell
Find vulnerable WordPress plugins fast using PowerShell on Windows Server and IIS
WordPress
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Disallow direct access to PHP files in wp-content/uploads/
Securing the WordPress uploads folder is important. In many hacked WordPress sites, a PHP backdoor is found within the WP_CONTENT_DIR/uploads directory. Often because this is the location where uploads are placed automatically. From the backdoor within wp-content/uploads other backdoors are uploaded to various locations, and scripts are injected with malware.
Windows Server
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Managing KVM VMs with virt-manager on Windows
In this post, I will show you how to connect to your KVM VMs (virtual machines) in Windows 10 via SSH using virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager) and qemu+ssh://. This allows you to manage your virtual machines from Windows.
GNU/Linux
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Bash function to generate a secure random alphanumeric string
Generate random strings in Bash to use as strong passwords using this BASH function in your `.bashrc` file for easy usage.
Windows Server
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WMI Filters for Group Policy to manage Windows Server versions
This post contains some example WMI filters for you to use in Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to target and manage specific Windows Server versions like 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2022 / 2019.
Windows Server
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IIS 10.0 FTP IP Security allow list
In this post I'll show you how to configure an IP allow list for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell, iisadministration and webadministration modules.
Codebase
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Removing phantom application folders from website configuration in IIS
Remove application folders from the website configuration in IIS whose physical path on the filesystem was removed, using PowerShell
WordPress
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Delete spam comments after three (3) days
How to change Akismet interval to three days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter.
Windows Server
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IIS backup and restore
Learn how to back up and restore IIS 10 webserver configuration with appcmd.exe and PowerShell
Codebase
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How to fix System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException "The given key was not present in the dictionary" Exception with MySQL Connector/NET and utf8mb4 character set
MySQL Connector/NET and utf8mb4 character set can cause an exception System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException "The given key was not present in the dictionary".
WordPress
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Reduce Wordfence CPU usage, disable Wordfence "Live Traffic View"
The Wordfence Live Traffic logging feature can cause high CPU usage and load issues for WordPress websites. Here is how to disable it.
Windows Server
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Use -SearchBase with Get-ADComputer for faster results
Using -SeachBase with PowerShell's Get-ADComputer gives me faster results with AD DS queries.