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Monitor website performance in IIS with Zabbix
2024-01-29
Zabbix is a great tool to monitor your website performance on IIS using Performance Counters, PowerShell and WMI.
Windows SID to username and vice versa
2023-09-03
Old school: learn how to convert a Windows SID (security identifier) to an username, or vice versa (username to SID) using PowerShell and VBScript. Because sometimes you just need to convert a Windows SID to an username, don't you?
Get IIS Current Connections using PowerShell
2023-08-12
Use PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI to get the current number of active connections to IIS websites. Monitor IIS servers in Zabbix
Monitor SQL Server and databases in depth using Zabbix
2022-12-20
Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, databases and performance with Zabbix, PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI. Keep SQL Server and databases in top shape and performance up! In this post I show you how you can use Zabbix to monitor those important aspects for database administrators (DBA).
Monitor .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap from your web application
2022-02-04
Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool's .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell.
Increase WMI memory to support large volume of queries
2021-08-30
Learn how to fix memory issues and subsequent crashes in WMI / WmiPrvse.exe by increasing available memory and handles
Getting more out your Windows Performance Counters monitoring for web applications – part 3
2021-04-14
Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS using _Process Performance Counter.
Monitor IIS application pools in Zabbix, part 1
2021-02-27
Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per IIS application pool in Zabbix so you can start monitoring Microsoft Windows Server IIS with Zabbix.
WMI Filters for Group Policy to manage Windows Server versions
2020-01-27
This post contains some example WMI filters for you to use in Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to target and manage specific Windows Server versions like 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2022 / 2019.
Windows Server 2016 VM on Hyper-V stuck at stopping
2018-02-28
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
Detect ethernet network speed in Windows
2017-05-12
Being able to 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-prompt, use one of the following PowerShell / WMIC commands.