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Install IIS in Windows 11 using PowerShell
2024-02-06
Have a need for IIS in your Windows 11 development station, and now you wonder how to install IIS? Here I describe how you can easily install IIS and some modules using PowerShell
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.
Install SSL / TLS certificates in Windows Server using PowerShell
2023-08-10
The following PowerShell snippet can be used to quickly install an SSL (or TLS) certificate in Windows Server. It assumes you have a PFX file and its password. The default location is Cert:\LocalMachine\My, to use for IIS websites.
Tune Windows Server TCP/IP and IIS
2023-06-21
In this small post I'll guide you through the various Windows Server and IIS configuration settings, for an optimized network performance, high performance websites and high volume of web requests.
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.
How to optimize Umbraco 8 performance
2021-12-23
Out of the box, Umbraco is a well built and pretty fast content management system. However, it is still important you perform some steps to further optimize Umbraco's performance and loading speed.
3 Ways of blocking sendmail.php on IIS webserver
2021-12-08
Here are 3 ways of blocking access to a PHP sendmail.php script on your Windows Server IIS webserver. This comes in handy if a websites on your webserver sends out spam and you need to block access to a script on a specific website or globally in IIS.
How to add a trailing slash in Umbraco 8
2021-11-28
Add a trailing slash to URL's in Umbraco 8, using IIS URL Rewrite Module, without breaking the Umbraco backend. Forcing one particular URL avoids duplicate content, which is important for SEO.
How to enable HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022
2021-09-14
Native support for HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022, jeej! Host HTTP/3 web services in Windows
Install and setup IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows Server IIS (step by step)
2021-04-22
Use IIS Manager to administer various components of your website through a graphical user interface (GUI) if it's hosted in Windows Server IIS. In this article you'll learn how to install and setup IIS Manager in Windows 11/10 to manage your website(s).
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.
ASP.NET web application monitoring in Zabbix, part 2
2021-02-27
When you host multiple websites in IIS, and you need to monitor them, Zabbix is one of your options. In Zabbix, you can take advantage of Windows Server performance counters. And in this article I show you some important Windows performance counters you can use to monitor your ASP.NET web application in Zabbix.
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.
How to remove IIS from Windows Server using PowerShell
2020-10-22
Follow this if you have no more need for Windows Server IIS and want to remove IIS completely from Windows Server using PowerShell
Basic Authentication module for Windows Server IIS 10
2020-09-24
HTTP Basic Authentication managed module for IIS enables HTTP Basic Authentication with virtual user support in Windows Server IIS.
IIS 10.0 FTP IP Security allow list
2020-01-21
In this post I'll show you how to configure an IP allow list for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell, iisadministration and webadministration modules.
Removing phantom application folders from website configuration in IIS
2019-12-18
Remove application folders from the website configuration in IIS whose physical path on the filesystem was removed, using PowerShell
IIS backup and restore
2019-11-04
Learn how to back up and restore IIS 10 webserver configuration with appcmd.exe and PowerShell
11+ Tips to optimize Umbraco 7 CMS
2018-11-07
Umbraco 7 is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS). Out of the box Umbraco performs pretty well, but there are still some areas you need to tweak and tune for a more performant Umbraco website. Here are 11+ tips.