Learn how to add VirtIO drivers to your Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) to recover your Windows virtual machines. Using Powershell of course and Windows Server 2022.
Storing SSH public keys in Windows Server Active Directory gives you a single location where you manage public SSH keys instead of on numerous separate servers. This is easier than distributing and managing numerous unmanaged authorized_keys files across your network and servers.
Learn how to install SQL Server cumulative updates (CU) silently using PowerShell opposed to the cumbersome task of running the GUI installer.
How to bulk add IP addresses in Windows Firewall, list an IP address and how to remove all IP addresses from Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security
For the time being, some manual labor is involved, but it is still manageable. You can use this to create your own solution to block offending IP addresses in SQL Server’s firewall.
Native support for HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022, jeej! Host HTTP/3 web services in Windows
Turn off Windows Defender routine remediation using a GPO setting called “DisableRoutinelyTakingAction”. This policy setting allows you to configure whether Microsoft Defender Antivirus automatically takes action on all detected threats.
Here is how you can share your SSH keys between Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 if you don’t want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL 2 Linux, or generate new ones.
Learn how to fix memory issues and subsequent crashes in WMI / WmiPrvse.exe by increasing available memory and handles
Enabling Windows Defender per GPO failed with the error message “Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.”, here is how to resolve this issue.
Use IIS Manager to administer various components of your website through a graphical user interface (GUI) if it’s hosted in Windows Server IIS. In this article you’ll learn how to install and setup IIS Manager in Windows 11/10 to manage your website(s).
If you want to quickly delete all saved Remote Desktop credentials from your Windows 10 Credentials Manager, here…
Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS using _Process Performance Counter.
When you host multiple websites in IIS, and you need to monitor them, Zabbix is one of your options. In Zabbix, you can take advantage of Windows Server performance counters. And in this article I show you some important Windows performance counters you can use to monitor your ASP.NET web application in Zabbix.
Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per IIS application pool in Zabbix so you can start monitoring Microsoft Windows Server IIS with Zabbix.
PowerShell ternary operator emulation for PowerShell 5.1. Quick and dirty determine if a condition is true or false by emulating the ternary operator. For example when determinering if the server you are servicing is a Windows Server Desktop Experience version or not (and thus Server Core).
Learn how to enable HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) in Linux Apache .htaccess. I wrote about enabling HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in IIS earlier. But what about enabling HSTS in Apache .htaccess? Here is how.
Easily find out whether an update or patch is installed. Or not… With PowerShell
Microsoft have released their OpenSSH port for Windows Server and Windows 10 back in 2015. Here is how to install the OpenSSH Server on Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016.
Follow this if you have no more need for Windows Server IIS and want to remove IIS completely from Windows Server using PowerShell