Tunnel RDP through SSH & PuTTY
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to perform remote administration on a Windows Server, and the RDP port 3389 is blocked on a firewall? You can tunnel RDP over SSH with PuTTY
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Monitor Windows services with PowerShell
Schedule a PowerShell script to monitor local services in your Windows Server environment
PowerShell Get-FsrmQuota and Set-FsrmQuota
To get and set File Server Resource Manager NTFS quota you now have to use PowerShell FileServerResourceManager cmdlets. It's pretty easy to get directory information with Get-FsrmQuota and change dirquota.exe using Set-FsrmQuota.
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. One reason for this time interval is that application pools don't recycle at the same moment every day (every day at 07.00 for example).
PHP 5.6 default_charset change may break HTML output
A change in PHP's default_charset php.ini setting causes HTML output to break if you try to set a different charset in your HTML head. It also might break functions like htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars().
Turn off swap
Learn how to turn off swap in Bash, because when a swap partition is enabled Linux starts swapping, which may degrade (MySQL) system performance
Software deployment through WDS
Here is how to install software packages during a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) deployment, without Microsoft Deployment Workbench (available in the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or MDT).
How to play old games on Windows with DOSBox
PC retrogaming how-to for 64-bit Windows - and Linux!
Find all files owned by a particular user using PowerShell
Sometimes you need to find all files owned by a specific user, recursively on your Windows Server NTFS file system. PowerShell has some neat cmdlets to automate this task for you and here is how.
Disk Cleanup in Windows Server
Over time, as your Windows Server runs longer, more and more disk space is eaten. Simply gone! Investigating the disk usage leaves you clueless; there are no large log files, crash dumps, or there is no software to be removed. Where did that space go?
Convert decimal to hex in Bash, hexadecimal to decimal and dates to Unix timestamp
Cconvert decimal to hex hexadecimal to decimal and Unix timestamps in Linux Bash. A quicky for my archives.
How to set a good PHP realpath_cache_size
Learn how to optimize PHP performance by checking and setting PHP realpath_cache_size. The realpath_cache_size size represents the total number of bytes in the path strings stored, plus the size of the data associated with the cache entry
Conditionally start Application Pools on remote IIS web servers
In this article you'll learn how to start all stopped application pools that have the ApplicationPool.AutoStart property set to $True using AppCmd.exe or PowerShell. This is something you often or occasionally have to perform on various servers, for example when an application pool hangs.
Check website availability with PHP and cURL
A useful PHP script to check if your website is up and online available. It uses PHP and cURL. This script comes in handy because website uptime and availability is important, and you want your website to be always online available.
Exploit PHP’s mail() to get remote code execution
Exploit PHP’s mail() function for remote code execution. Apparently, if you are able to control the 5th parameter of the mail() function ($options), you have the opportunity to execute arbitrary commands.
Send authenticated SMTP email over TLS from WordPress
Learn how to override wp-mail() and send secure email using authenticated SMTP and StartTLS from WordPress.
Huge increase in WordPress xmlrpc.php POST requests
How to identify, block, mitigate and leverage xmlrpc.php scans, brute-force, and user enumeration attacks on WordPress sites... Secure WordPress xmlprc.php interface and reduce service disruption.
Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header
Windows Server IIS loves to tell the world that a website runs on IIS. It does so with the "Server:" header in the HTTP response, as shown below. In this post I'll show you how to remove HTTP response headers in Windows Server IIS. You don't want to give hackers too much information about your servers, right?.
8 Tips to improve Joomla performance
Learn how to speed-up Joomla performance on Windows Server IIS using these 8 simple, but important, tips. Add caching, gzip compression, set your sessions & optimize MySQL database functions.
Delete all MAILER-DAEMON emails in Postfix queue
How to delete all MAILER-DAEMON emails from your Postfix queue, when it matches a sender or recipient email address condition. In Postfix, there are various similar commands to delete messages from the Postfix mail queue, based on the Message-ID and/or email address for example...