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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

Silently import .reg file in your Windows registry

Learn how to silently import a .reg file into your Windows Registry. This neat regedit trick comes in handy quite often. The regedit command is valid for Windows 11, 10, Windows Server 2022, 2019 and older

By Jan Reilink 01/12/2018Windows Server

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

Windows Server

Merge multiple files into one new file in Windows

Merge or concatenate multiple files into one new file in Windows using the copy command in cmd.exe. Here is how.

By Jan Reilink 16/05/2017Windows Server

PowerShell

How to detect ethernet network speed in Windows

Detect the ethernet network speed using PowerShell or WMI is perfect for Windows Server Core. If you ever need to lookup the speed of your ethernet network card in Windows, on the command-line, use one of the following WMIC commands on your PowerShell prompt

By Jan Reilink 12/05/2017PowerShell

GNU Linux

Generate pseudo-random passwords with OpenSSL

Use OpenSSL to generate pseudo-random strings to be used as passwords. Passwords for users, system accounts and service accounts. I provide you examples for Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.

By Jan Reilink 27/11/2015GNU Linux

Windows Server

Tunnel RDP through SSH & PuTTY

Tunnel Remote Desktop (RDP) over ssh with PuTTY? Tunneling RDP over ssh comes in handy when the destination RDP port is blocked on a firewall and you need to perform remote administration on Windows Server. So here is how to set up a RDP SSH tunnel in Linux and Windows (with PuTTY).

By Jan Reilink 28/04/2015Windows Server

Windows Server

Software deployment through WDS

In my environment, I had to set up a new Windows Deployment Services (WDS) configuration for Windows 8.1 Enterprise. To roll out in our office (some 20+ workstations). I wanted to install some additional software at the same time, without using Microsoft Deployment Workbench (using FirstLogonCommands), because I find the interface too slow. The solution? Read on...

By Jan Reilink 04/03/2015Windows Server

MONIT - Barking at daemons. Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

GNU Linux

Monit monitoring on Ubuntu 14.04 VM on Hyper-V

Set up a Monit monitoring service for your websites and services. Monit is a free and open source service monitoring application which can perform various event-based actions. Monit can send email notifications, restart a service or application, or take other responsive actions. We set Monit up on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, built on Hyper-V. And we use Monit to monitor several websites, and send out notifications on downtime.

By Jan Reilink 15/02/2015GNU Linux

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

WordPress

Minify JavaScript, CSS and compress images

Optimizing, minify and compressing JavaScript and CSS files, the easy and fast way? With YUI Compressor on the Windows-, Linux- and macOS command line of course! Compacting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can speeds up your website because of smaller and faster downloads, parsing, and execution time. Fire-and-forget JavaScript and CSS minification and optimization

By Jan Reilink 18/05/2014WordPress

Web application security

Test SMTP Authentication and StartTLS

Investigate SMTP authentication issues like a boss! Particular over TLS encrypted SMTP connections, it's always handy if you are able to test the SMTP authentication and StartTLS connection. Preferably from your command line. This post shows you how to test SMTP servers, create base64 encoded logon information, verify SMTP authentication over an opportunistic TLS connection, all from the Linux and Windows command line using OpenSSL.

By Jan Reilink 17/05/2014Web application security

Windows Server

Forfiles: How to delete files recursively on Windows Server

Delete files recursively with Forfiles on Windows Server. The Forfiles command on Windows selects and executes a command on a file or set of files. Forfiles is ideal for batch processing through scripts: you can run a command on or pass arguments to multiple files. For example, you delete files recursive if files are older than 'n' days.

By Jan Reilink 01/01/2014Windows Server

Windows Live Essentials repaired successfully

Windows Server

Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161 (Fix)

After not using Windows Live Mail for quite some time, it gave me an error code 0x80041161. This Windows Live Mail error can have several different reasons, like corrupt files or services that aren't started, not easing the task of identifying the cause. Read on to learn how to fix this Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161...

By Jan Reilink 10/10/2013Windows Server