Posted inWindows Server
Monitor website performance in IIS with Zabbix
Monitor your website performance in IIS with Zabbix and Performance Counters. Scripting in PowerShell and WMI.
Posted inWindows Server
Get IIS Current Connections using PowerShell
Use PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI to get the current number of active connections to IIS websites. Perfect for monitoring IIS webservers in Zabbix.
Posted inWindows Server
Tune Windows Server TCP/IP and IIS
Learn how to reconfigure Windows Server's TCP/IP stack and IIS for high performing websites. Prevent running out of available ports/sockets (port exhaustion).
Posted inWindows Server
Monitor .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap from your web application
Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool's .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell. Keeping track of .NET memory usage enables you to optimize usage and performance further.
Posted inWeb applications
Convert SqlCe database to SQL Server
Learn how to convert an SQL Server Compact (SQL CE) database to an SQL Server database. Because the SQL CE database type is unsupported, it’s recommended by Microsoft to upgrade to SQL Server. But how do you convert your SqlCe database?
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How to optimize Umbraco 8 performance
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. Here on Sysadmins of the North, I wrote about "11+ tips to optimize Umbraco CMS" earlier, and in this post I write about implementing them. On a just installed and running website.
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How to add a trailing slash in Umbraco 8
This article shows you how to 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Force BITS to download WSUS updates in the foreground in Windows Server
Speed up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) downloads by setting BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) priority to foreground.
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How to Fix Yoast SEO for WordPress DeleteDuplicateIndexables MySQL error
In recent days, there are a number of reports about broken Yoast SEO database operations, related to the DeleteDuplicateIndexables function. The PHP function is located in the file wordpress-seo\src\config\migrations\20200507054848_DeleteDuplicateIndexables.php, and in this post I'll provide you with a possible fix for this statement. Read on.
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Reduce Wordfence CPU usage, disable Wordfence “Live Traffic View”
Reduce Wordfence and WordPress CPU usage by checking settings and disabling Live Traffic View. This'll improve the performance and speed of your WordPress website.
Posted inPowerShell
Use -SearchBase with Get-ADComputer for faster results
Using -SeachBase with PowerShell's Get-ADComputer cmdlet gives faster results when querying Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) with PowerShell. You can use this for your own advantage, here is a little example to speed up AD DS queries.
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11+ Tips to optimize Umbraco 7 CMS
Umbraco 7 is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS). Even though it performs pretty well, here are 11+ tips to optimize the performance of Umbraco 7 powered websites on IIS.