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Quickly view all symbolic links, junctions points and hard links in a folder

How to find all symbolic links, junction points and hard links in a folder in Windows Server quickly? Use dir /al /s /b, or LinkType in PowerShell

By Jan Reilink 02/06/2020Windows Server

Windows Server

Find vulnerable WordPress plugin versions fast using PowerShell

Use PowerShell to find vulnerable WordPress plugin versions hosted on your Windows Server IIS webserver fast, because new vulnerabilities are found on a daily basis. On Windows Server, PowerShell is a perfect tool for this job!

By Jan Reilink 08/05/2020Windows Server

Windows Server

WMI Filters for Group Policy to manage Windows Server versions

Create effective WMI filters for Group Policy to have a more granular control on specific versions of Windows Server. In this post I provide some basic WMI filter examples to use with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

By Jan Reilink 27/01/2020Windows Server

IIS FTP IP Address and Domain Restrictions

Windows Server

IIS 10.0 FTP IP Security allow list

Configure an IP whitelist for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell. Learn to secure your Windows Server FTP service (FTPSvc)

By Jan Reilink 21/01/2020Windows Server

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Removing phantom application folders from website configuration in IIS

Remove phantom application folders from websites in IIS using PowerShell where the physical path on the filesystem was removed. E.g when the application folder "/test1" in the website example.com should point to z:\sites\example.com\www\test1 but was removed. Here is now.

By Jan Reilink 18/12/2019PowerShell

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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.

By Jan Reilink 15/08/2019PowerShell

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Install Windows Server Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) using PowerShell

Install Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) for Windows Server 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2019 using PowerShell, without downtime. Because they must be installed prior to normal Windows Server security updates you can install an SSU anytime you want to during the day. Here's a small PowerShell example to do so.

By Jan Reilink 12/06/2019PowerShell

Windows Server

How to uninstall and remove Adobe Flash Player in Windows Server

How to uninstall and remove Adobe Flash Player in Windows Server.Ever wondered why Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) offers Flash updates for Windows Server? Adobe Flash Player is installed on Windows Server 2016 / 2019 if you have the Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) role installed. Yikes! I can imagine you want to delete Adobe Flash Player without deleting the RDSH role, and here is how.

By Jan Reilink 22/11/2018Windows Server

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Working with file attributes in PowerShell

Here is how to use Get-Item and Get-ItemProperty in PowerShell to perform and streamline day to day tasks like installing or updating software based on file versions. Working with PowerShell's Get-ItemProperty to get file attributes may boost your work productivity. It's often easier to getting things done if you have a more generic way of doing something. I also address changing timestamps on files in short.

By Jan Reilink 22/08/2018PowerShell

Windows Server

Windows Server 2016 on Hyper-V stuck at stopping

If a Windows Server 2016 guest VM on Hyper-V hangs while stopping after Windows Updates, and it won't reboot, it might be caused by the recovery debug information type set. Especially when you have moved the Windows PageFile to a different partition/VHDX.

By Jan Reilink 28/02/2018Windows Server

Windows Server

List all SPNs used in your Active Directory

A service principal name (SPN) is a unique identifier of a service instance. Listing duplicate SPNs is fairly easy, but how do you find out which SPNs are used for which users, computers and services? Start troubleshooting SPNs here and learn how to use setspn.exe to list all SPNs used in your Active Directory.

By Jan Reilink 26/02/2018Windows Server

Windows Server

How to: Determine which .NET Framework versions are installed

To get an accurate list of the .NET Framework versions installed on a computer, you can view the registry or query the registry in code. Note that the .NET Framework consists of two main components, which are versioned separately. Here is how to list installed ASP.NET versions using PowerShell.

By Jan Reilink 07/09/2017Windows Server

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How to unzip a file in PowerShell

Unzipping a file on your PowerShell command line may come in handy sometimes, even on your Windows 10 workstation. Use Expand-Archive for this

By Jan Reilink 30/08/2017PowerShell

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How to determine if a SQL Server backup is compressed?

Compressed SQL Server backups can be verified in PowerShell using a handy PowerShell function. This comes in handy when you need to verify if existing SQL Server backups are compressed.

By Jan Reilink 06/08/2017PowerShell

WSUS Application Pool IIS Advanced Settings

Windows Server

WsusPool keeps crashing: stops again and again

Is Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) slow or is WSUSPool application pool constantly crashing or restarting? Are client computers checking for Windows Update erroring out with code 0x80244021? This indicates the client is unable to reach WSUS. Here is how to improve Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) availability.

By Jan Reilink 25/05/2017Windows Server