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How to detect ethernet network speed in Windows

Detect the ethernet network speed using PowerShell or WMI is perfect for Windows Server Core. If you ever need to lookup the speed of your ethernet network card in Windows, on the command-line, use one of the following WMIC commands on your PowerShell prompt

By Jan Reilink 12/05/2017PowerShell

Windows Server

DisableNSRecordsAutoCreation with Dnscmd

This post explains how to restrict automatic NS resource record registration in Windows Server DNS using Dnscmd. This prevents Windows Server DNS to automatically create NS records for zones that it hosts on the server.

By Jan Reilink 02/05/2017Windows Server

Windows Server

5 Extra ways to clean up disk space in Windows Server

Disk cleanup in Windows Server using DISM is one of the most popular posts here on Saotn.org. It is still valid for Windows Server 2016 and up. So apparently, disk space usage is an issue in Windows Server. Which made me wonder: what more ways to clean up disk space in Windows Server are there?

By Jan Reilink 16/08/2016Windows Server

PowerShell

List all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Learn how to list all MAC address of all VM's in Hyper-Vusing PowerShell. You sometimes need to list and get all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V virtual machines in your network, either for your administration or provisioning. Here is how.

By Jan Reilink 12/08/2016PowerShell

IIS URL Rewrite Module installation error IIS 10

Windows Server

How to install IIS URL Rewrite Module on Windows Server 2016 & IIS 10

You can't install IIS URL Rewrite Module 2 on Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10.0, because it exits with an incompatibility message. Looks like the installer tries to compare strings as version numbers. Here is how to successfully install IIS URL Rewrite Module in IIS 10.

By Jan Reilink 30/05/2016Windows Server

PowerShell

PowerShell blacklist check script: find an IP address’ blacklist status & reputation

A blacklist check script written in PowerShell. You can use this to lookup an IP address in various blacklists (DNSBL, RBL). Such a check is a great indicator for an IP address' reputation. Basically this PowerShell blacklist checker is a port of my Bash script to check an IP address blacklist status in Linux.

By Jan Reilink 19/05/2016PowerShell

Windows Server

AppCmd introduction and examples

AppCmd.exe is a command-line utility to manage Windows Server IIS 7+ web servers. The AppCmd command is your one-stop-shop for administering Windows Server IIS web servers. In combination with WinRM it’s your Swiss Army knife for your daily routine. This post introduces appcmd and provides you with a lot of helpful appcmd examples.

By Jan Reilink 17/05/2016Windows Server

PowerShell

Get current number of FTP client connections (NonAnonymous) with PowerShell and Get-Counter

Ever wanted to know the current number of active FTP client connections on your Windows Server IIS FTP Service? You can get this statistic using PowerShell, the Get-Counter cmdlet and the Microsoft FTP Service Current NonAnonymous Users performance counter.

By Jan Reilink 03/05/2016PowerShell

PowerShell

Simple PowerShell introduction for Windows Server administration, automation and scripting

Windows PowerShell is an important tool in Windows Server for administrators. You can use PowerShell for Windows Server administration, software installation, automation, and shell/command-line scripting. Here is a small and simple introduction to Windows PowerShell.

By Jan Reilink 28/04/2016PowerShell

Windows Server

How to install Microsoft’s SQL Server Driver for PHP

In this article I'll show you how to install the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 7+. This makes the use of an SQL Server database back-end for your PHP website easy. This post walks you through the steps necessary to install the SQL Server driver and SQLSRV extension for PHP 7+, on Windows Server IIS of course.

By Jan Reilink 13/04/2016Windows Server

GNU Linux

Generate pseudo-random passwords with OpenSSL

Use OpenSSL to generate pseudo-random strings to be used as passwords. Passwords for users, system accounts and service accounts. I provide you examples for Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.

By Jan Reilink 27/11/2015GNU Linux

PowerShell

PowerShell return value, exit code, or ErrorLevel equivalent

PowerShell $? operator and $LASTEXITCODE: How to verify whether an external command in PowerShell was executed successfully or not by checkingits errorlevel, or PowerShell exit code.

By Jan Reilink 08/10/2015PowerShell

PowerShell

Get Hyper-V guest serial number with PowerShell

Get Hyper-V virtual machine's serial number (BIOSSerialNumber) with PowerShell. Easy to use & unique information in automation, deployments and documentation. Perfect for an automatic, unattended deployment of the guest OS.

By Jan Reilink 20/09/2015PowerShell

Windows Server

Tunnel RDP through SSH & PuTTY

Tunnel Remote Desktop (RDP) over ssh with PuTTY? Tunneling RDP over ssh comes in handy when the destination RDP port is blocked on a firewall and you need to perform remote administration on Windows Server. So here is how to set up a RDP SSH tunnel in Linux and Windows (with PuTTY).

By Jan Reilink 28/04/2015Windows Server

PowerShell

Monitor Windows services with PowerShell

How to monitor Windows Servers with PowerShell. As a Windows Server and IIS administrator, you want your Windows services to run at all times. One can monitor Windows services in many, many, ways. Some of our customers websites may depend on certain services, which may be hard to monitor externally. For those Windows services that need local monitoring, I like to schedule a PowerShell script. Here is one...

By Jan Reilink 10/04/2015PowerShell