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

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 21/10/2022

If you need to connect virt-manager to a KVM host over ssh in Windows, then Windows 11 and WSL 2 made things a whole lot easier for you. Even if you need to connect virt-manager through an ssh tunnel and arbitrary port because your network is reachable only through a bastion host with ssh key authentication. Here is how.

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Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 DevOps environment

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 15/08/2022

In this post I describe some of the settings and changes I made to make my Windows 10 and Ubuntu WSL into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps/SysOps on Windows.

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YubiKey support in OpenSSH for Windows 11 and Windows 10

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 14/08/2022

Since Win32-OpenSSH version 8.9.1.0p1-Beta there is decent support for FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators. This means we can use a YubiKey with Windows 11 and Windows 10, w00h00! In this post, I’ll show you how to install Microsoft OpenSSH client in Windows 11 and Windows 10, and how to configure your YubiKey. If you follow this guide and all goes well, you no longer need additional tools like Git Bash or MremoteNG/MobaXterm.

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Install and setup IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows Server IIS (step by step)

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 22/04/2021

IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows 10

Learn how to install and configure IIS Manager for Remote Administration of your Windows Server IIS web server, in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Step by step. You can use IIS Manager to administer various components of your website through a graphical user interface (GUI) if it’s hosted in Windows Server IIS.

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Delete saved RDP credentials from Windows 10 Credentials Manager, using cmdkey

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 16/04/2021

If you want to quickly delete all saved Remote Desktop credentials from your Windows 10 Credentials Manager, here is how. Execute the following command in an elevated cmd.exe terminal:

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Manually install OpenSSH in Windows Server

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 09/11/2020

Microsoft OpenSSH SSH Server Properties screen

OpenSSH is an ideal and secure way of performing remote maintenance & administration on your servers. Even on Windows Server! :) Microsoft have released their OpenSSH port for Windows Server and Windows 10 back in 2015. Here is how to install the OpenSSH Server on Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016.

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Hugo development environment in WSL 2

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 25/07/2020

My New Hugo Site created in WSL 2 on WIndows 10

Do you find it too difficult to install Go or Hugo in Windows for your static site development? Have you tried Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2? Using a default Ubuntu 20.04, it is pretty easy to install Hugo, set up your development environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu’s IP address instead of localhost / 127.0.0.1. This makes your Hugo development site accessible for browsers in Windows 10. Neat, right?

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Setting up Monit monitoring in Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 10/03/2019

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog article about setting up Monit monitoring on an Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V. Now it’s time to do the same, but then in Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. So, without further ado, here is how to install and configure Monit monitoring in Windows 10 WSL.

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How to set SVN_EDITOR environment variable in Windows Server

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 29/10/2018

On a newly installed workstation or server, you might encountered the following subversion error when you commit a change:

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Important note about Windows Update KB4056892

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 05/01/2018

There is another VERY IMPORTANT THING with Microsoft Meltdown patches like update KB4056892: – Customers will not receive these security updates and will not be protected from security vulnerabilities unless their anti-virus software vendor sets the following registry key:

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Windows Update error 0xc1420127 and 0xc190010b when upgrading Windows 8.1 to Windows 10

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 25/04/2016

Last weekend I had to update my girlfriends laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Some might say, an easy task. Well, it wasn’t. After downloading the Windows 10 update through Windows Update, Windows Update returned errors 0xc1420127 and 0xc190010b, even using the Windows 10 media creation tool. And as always there are many reasons for these errors. In this short post, I’ll provide some possible solutions and tips.

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How to play old games on Windows with DOSBox

Windows Server / By Jan Reilink / 04/01/2015

PC retrogaming how-to for 64-bit Windows – and Linux! We all love old games. It’s a nostalgia thing from when we played those really old games on our 286 (or older, like an MSX) computer, either using floppy disks or cassettes/cartridges. There is nothing much sysadmin about this, it’s all about FUN! You all remember Airborne Ranger, Operation Wolf, Blues Brothers, Gunboat and The Lost Vikings, right? …

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