Windows 10 Archives

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

IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows 10

Windows Server

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

In this article you’ll learn how to install and setup IIS Manager in Windows 11/10 to manage your website(s). You can also 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 Management Service (WMSVC) on Server Core using PowerShell.

By Jan Reilink 22/04/2021Windows Server

Windows Server

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

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

By Jan Reilink 16/04/2021Windows Server

Microsoft OpenSSH SSH Server Properties screen

Windows Server

Install OpenSSH in Windows Server

How to install OpenSSH Server in Windows Server Core using PowerShell. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Microsoft SSH Server in Windows Server 2022 and below (2019, 2016, 2012 R2). OpenSSH is an ideal and secure way of performing remote maintenance & administration on your servers. Even on Windows Server!

By Jan Reilink 09/11/2020Windows Server

My New Hugo Site created in WSL 2 on WIndows 10

Windows Server

Hugo development environment in WSL 2

How to set up Hugo and an static website in an not-so-standard (but fun) development environment? In WSL 2 on Windows 11/10 of course.

By Jan Reilink 25/07/2020Windows Server

Windows Server

Setting up Monit monitoring in Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL

How to install and configure Monit monitoring in Windows 10 WSL. Set up a Monit monitoring service for your websites and services. 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. For this, I use Ubuntu.

By Jan Reilink 10/03/2019Windows Server

Windows Server

How to set SVN_EDITOR environment variable in Windows Server

Learn how to set SVN_EDITOR environment variable in Windows Server for subversion. Fix the error "svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR is set, and no ‘editor-cmd’ run-time configuration option was found."

By Jan Reilink 29/10/2018Windows Server

Windows Server

Important note about Windows Update KB4056892

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:

By Jan Reilink 05/01/2018Windows Server

Windows Server

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

Fix Windows Update errors 0xc1420127 and 0xc190010b when they ocure during a Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 upgrade; possible solutions and tips are provided in this post.

By Jan Reilink 25/04/2016Windows Server

Windows Server

How to play old games on Windows with DOSBox

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?

By Jan Reilink 04/01/2015Windows Server