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.
Learn how to add VirtIO drivers to your Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) to recover your Windows virtual machines. Using Powershell of course and Windows Server 2022.
If you have tens (hundreds) of servers and/or users it's easier to retrieve user SSH public keys from Active Directory (AD) than from various unmanaged authorized_keys files.
Learn how to install SQL Server cumulative updates (CU) silently using PowerShell opposed to the cumbersome task of running the GUI installer.
How to bulk add IP addresses in Windows Firewall, list an IP address and how to remove all IP addresses from Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security
For the time being, some manual labor is involved, but it is still manageable. You can use this to create your own solution to block offending IP addresses in SQL Server’s firewall.
Native support for HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022, jeej! Host HTTP/3 web services in Windows
Turn off Windows Defender routine remediation using a GPO setting called “DisableRoutinelyTakingAction”. This policy setting allows you to configure whether Microsoft Defender Antivirus automatically takes action on all detected threats.
Here is how you can share your SSH keys between Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 if you don't want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL 2 Linux, or generate new ones.
Learn how to fix memory issues and subsequent crashes in WMI / WmiPrvse.exe by increasing available memory and handles
Enabling Windows Defender per GPO failed with the error message "Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.", here is how to resolve this issue.
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).
Easily find out whether an update or patch is installed. Or not... With PowerShell
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.
Follow this if you have no more need for Windows Server IIS and want to remove IIS completely from Windows Server using PowerShell
HTTP Basic Authentication managed module for IIS enables HTTP Basic Authentication with virtual user support in Windows Server IIS.
WSUS uses BITS for downloading updates, and it does so in background mode. Unfortunately, this utilizes remaining bandwidth of the server instead of its full capacity. To speed up WSUS downloads, you can configure BITS in WSUS to use foreground priority.
When you migrate a file server and transfer data, you may need to recreate junction points, as they cannot be copied using (for example) Robocopy.exe. This makes it a must to know where you have junction points, and NTFS hard and soft links. This is where PowerShell comes to the rescue.
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.
In this post I'll show you how to configure an IP allow list for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell, iisadministration and webadministration modules.