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How to add, list and remove IP addresses in Windows Firewall

Here is how to bulk add IP addresses in the Windows Firewall, list an IP address and remove all IP addresses from Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security. In Windows 11, 10 and Windows Server

By Jan Reilink 21/09/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

Block brute force attacks on SQL Server, block IP addresses in Windows Firewall using PowerShell

This PowerShell solution blocks IP addresses that are trying to brute force your SQL Server logins, by blocking IP addresses in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security, using PowerShell. You can use this to create your own solution to block offending IP addresses in SQL Server's firewall.

By Jan Reilink 20/09/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

Windows Defender: Turn off routine remediation

Here is how to (temporarily) turn off routine remediation in Windows Defender Antivirus (WinDefend). During the transition of antivirus software to Windows Defender Antivirus (WinDefend), I don't want Windows Defender remediation on threats it might find. Later, when I have more information about potential threats, I can always choose to remediate that threat, e.g. quarantaine or remove it.

By Jan Reilink 14/09/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

How to enable HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022

Learn the steps necessary to enable native HTTP/3 & MsQuic in Windows Server 2022 and IIS 10.0 for hosted websites.

By Jan Reilink 14/09/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

How to share OpenSSH keys with WSL in Windows 10

Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2, if you don't want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL Linux. The OpenSSH config offers the option to share keys using an IdentityFile directive.

By Jan Reilink 05/09/2021Windows Server

WMI Architecture - The diagram shows the relationship between the WMI infrastructure and the WMI providers and managed objects, and it also shows the relationship between the WMI infrastructure and the WMI consumers. - Credits Microsoft Doc

Windows Server

Increase WMI memory to support large volume of queries

WMI stopped working: WmiPrvse.exe would just crash after hitting some memory limit of 512 MB. If you run into the same issue with Windows Management Instrumentation, here is how you can increase WMI Provider Service’s memory quota. Doing so resolved my issues: learn to optimize WMI Provider Host and decrease high CPU usage.

By Jan Reilink 30/08/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

How-to fix “Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.”

In my situation, I had Windows Defender Antivirus disabled per GPO ("Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus" in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Defender Antivirus), and I wanted to enable Windows Defender in a new GPO, on a specific set of computers. This resulted in an error message "Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed."

By Jan Reilink 05/05/2021Windows Server

IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows 10

Windows Server

Install and setup IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows Server IIS (step by step)

In this article you’ll learn how to install and setup IIS Manager in Windows 11/10 to manage your website(s). You can also follow these steps to install Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on a Windows Server Core edition, to locally or remotely manage hosted websites. This post also shows how to install IIS Web Management Service (WMSVC) on Server Core using PowerShell.

By Jan Reilink 22/04/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

Delete saved RDP credentials from Windows 10 Credentials Manager, using cmdkey

If you want to quickly delete all saved Remote Desktop credentials from your Windows 10 Credentials Manager, here is how. Execute the cmdkey command in an elevated cmd.exe terminal

By Jan Reilink 16/04/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

Getting more out your Windows Performance Counters monitoring for web applications – part 3

This is part 3 about Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS. This time I'll show you how to get data from Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process counter, fast, for everey application pool This counter is notorious for its slowness, but you can get data a bit faster. IIS AppPool Insights in Zabbix - because there is always more than one way.

By Jan Reilink 14/04/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

ASP.NET web application monitoring in Zabbix, part 2

Monitor ASP.NET web applications performance in Zabbix. Take advantage of Windows Server performance counters using Zabbix functions "perf_counter" and "perf_counter_en" in your templates.

By Jan Reilink 27/02/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

Monitor IIS application pools in Zabbix, part 1

Zabbix can harnas the powers of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to query the Windows system for data. In Zabbix you use wmi.getall for this. Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per IIS application pool in Zabbix.

By Jan Reilink 27/02/2021Windows Server

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Disable Joomla Contacts component (com_contact) in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

How-to disable Joomla's built-in contact forms component and its ability to send a copy to the sender, directly in your MySQL database using phpMyAdmin.

By Jan Reilink 05/01/2021Web applications

WordPress

Disable WordPress XCloner Plugin logger in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

If XCloner Logger option is enabled, it will store a log file inside the xcloner-XXXXX folder inside the backup archive. The file is named xcloner-xxxxx.log. This can generate a huge amount of temporary files and log files on your file system. This short article provides you one SQL statement to disable XCloner log directly in your WordPress MySQL database, using phpMyAdmin.

By Jan Reilink 05/01/2021WordPress