Windows Server
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You can use PowerShell to install Windows Updates automatically, unattended and simple. Neat, right? For this, you don't have to have an enterprise environment with WSUS, or Windows Server, but since this is Sysadmins of the North, I assume you do. In this post I show you how to install Windows Updates with PowerShell and the PSWindowsUpdate module.
Codebase
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Easily send your DevOps reporting using SMTP email with this PowerShell function, because the Send-MailMessage cmdlet is obsolete. Of course you'll be using StartTLS and authenticated SMTP as additional security.
Useful
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With just a few manual steps you create your own little IP blocklist for WordPress in .htaccess or web.config. Here are the IP addresses I blocked.
Windows Server
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Sometimes you need to create an additional SQL Server Login (user) for your database (databases). Here is a small T-SQL snippet that creates such a login for contained databases in SQL Server and adds memberships.
Windows Server
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Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, databases and performance with Zabbix, PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI. Keep SQL Server and databases in top shape and performance up! In this post I show you how you can use Zabbix to monitor those important aspects for database administrators (DBA).
WordPress
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Query all posts in WordPress not having a Yoast SEO meta description yet. You can run this on your MySQL prompt or in phpMyAdmin
Windows Server
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Set up debugging symbols for WinDbg in Windows and debug BSOD like a boss. Set symbol path for WinDbg.
Windows Server
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How to extract MSI files without installing Windows Server 2022 (quick command-line method). Learn the definitive way to extract files from .msi packages using the msiexec /a switch, TARGETDIR, and PowerShell for automated deployments.
GNU/Linux, Web applications
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Take control of your server resources by learning how to block aggressive bots and unwanted search engines using .htaccess and mod_rewrite. This guide provides copy-paste ready configurations to prevent bandwidth theft, stop scrapers, and ensure that only relevant search engines crawl your website.
Windows Server
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Connect virt-manager to a KVM host through an ssh tunnel and arbitrary port in Windows using Windows 11 and WSL 2.
Windows Server
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DevOps in Windows: In this post I describe some of the settings and changes I made to make my Windows 11 and Ubuntu WSL2 into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps / SysOps on Windows.
Windows Server
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YubiKey support in ssh for Windows: secure your Windows environment by moving SSH private keys to hardware. Learn how to configure YubiKey FIDO2/U2F support in native OpenSSH, manage the ssh-agent, and eliminate file-based credential risks.
GNU/Linux
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Display full username in ps. The ps output truncates usernames to 7 characters and a +. If you need full usernames in Bash ps, here is how.
Windows Server
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Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool's .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell.
Windows Server
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Find out fast if your IIS webservers have EnableTrailerSupport enabled for https.sys in the registry. Here is a small PowerShell method.
Windows Server
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How can I convert an SqlCe database to Microsoft SQL Server?
Umbraco
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Out of the box, Umbraco is a well built and pretty fast content management system. However, it is still important you perform some steps to further optimize Umbraco's performance and loading speed.
Windows Server
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Block PHP files like sendmail.php on Windows Server IIS webservers. This comes in handy if a websites on your webserver sends out spam and you need to block access to a script on a specific website or globally in IIS. Here are 3 methods.
Web applications
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In Piranha CMS you can easily extend the TinyMCE editor with additional plugins and toolbar buttons through editorconfig.json. Here is how.
Umbraco
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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.