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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."
05/05/2021Posted inWindows Server
IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows 10
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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.
22/04/2021Posted inWindows Server
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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.
14/04/2021Posted inWindows Server
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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.
05/01/2021Posted inWordPress
Microsoft OpenSSH SSH Server Properties screen
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Install OpenSSH in Windows Server

How to install OpenSSH Server in Windows Server Core using PowerShell. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Microsoft SSH Server in Windows Server 2022 and below (2019, 2016, 2012 R2). OpenSSH is an ideal and secure way of performing remote maintenance & administration on your servers. Even on Windows Server!
09/11/2020Posted inWindows Server
PowerShell 5.0
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Emulate ternary operator in PowerShell

Emulate ternary or conditional operator in PowerShell 5. It takes three operands: a condition followed by a question mark (?), then an expression to execute if the condition is truthy followed by a colon (:), and finally the expression to execute if the condition is falsy. This operator is frequently used as an alternative to an if...else statement.
28/10/2020Posted inPowerShell