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Install IIS in Windows 11 using PowerShell

Do you have a need for IIS in your Windows 11 development station? And now you need to install IIS? Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows is a secure and manageable webserver for hosting anything on the web. Here I describe how to install IIS.

By Jan Reilink 06/02/2024PowerShell

Windows Server

Connect to a KVM host through an ssh tunnel and arbitrary port in Windows 11 and WSL 2

Connect virt-manager to a KVM host over ssh (qemu+ssh://) in Windows using Windows 11 and WSL 2. This setup allows you to connect to virt-manager through an ssh tunnel and an arbitray port through a bastion host and ssh key authentication.

By Jan Reilink 21/10/2022Windows Server

Windows Server

Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 DevOps environment

In this post I showed you how you can turn Windows 11 and Windows 10 with WSL into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps/SysOps on Windows. It may take some getting used to, but if you're as shortcut-Ninja as I'm (I alt-tab, ctrl-c/ctrl-v a lot), you can work pretty fast in this set up.

By Jan Reilink 15/08/2022Windows Server

Windows Server

YubiKey support in OpenSSH for Windows 11 and Windows 10

Configure and use YubiKey security keys with Microsoft OpenSSH in Windows Server, Windows 11 and Windows 10 to support FIDO/U2F devices.

By Jan Reilink 14/08/2022Windows Server

Windows Server

Retrieve SSH public key from Active Directory for SSH authentication

Configure SSH public key authentication for Windows Server in Active Directory (AD). In this article I'll explain how to store and get your SSH public keys from Windows Server Active Directory user property.

By Jan Reilink 29/10/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

How to share OpenSSH keys with WSL in Windows 10

Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2, if you don't want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL Linux. The OpenSSH config offers the option to share keys using an IdentityFile directive.

By Jan Reilink 05/09/2021Windows Server