In Februari 2020 I wrote a Dutch blog post explaining how to manage KVM virtual machines in Windows 10 over ssh. Because the Windows version of virt-manager doesn’t support qemu+ssh,...
Easily enable support for the WebSocket protocol on Windows Server IIS by installing the Web-WebSockets feature using PowerShell. One of the limitations to HTTP is that it was designed as...
You sometimes need to list and get all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V virtual machines in your network. Either for your Hyper-V administration or provisioning if you don’t set an...
In Windows you can extract the contents of an MSI package (.msi file) using the command line or via a script. I keep forgetting the correct msiexec.exe syntax to use...
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...
You can use PowerShell to install Windows Updates automatically, unattended and simple. Neat, right? For this, you don’t have to have an enterprise environment with WSUS, or Windows Server, but...
Here is how you can verify whether an external command in PowerShell was executed successfully or not by checking its errorlevel. Simply by verifying the PowerShell exit code using the $? operator or $LASTEXITCODE. The...
Using Windows Management Infrastructure, or WMI, Windows admins can create filters to apply GPOs more granular on specific versions of Windows Server. In this post I provide some basic examples....
You can’t install IIS URL Rewrite Module on Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10.0, because it exits with an incompatibility error “IIS version 7.0 or greater is required to install...
How to find all symbolic, soft links, junction points and hard links in a folder in Windows Server quickly? Use dir /al /s /b. When you migrate a file server and...