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Monitor .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap from your web application
Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool’s .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell.
Windows Server
Windows Server Administration, Automation & Hardening Guides
Welcome to the core Windows Server administration and engineering hub on saotn.org. Managing modern enterprise Windows Server environments requires a balance of scalable automation, proactive performance maintenance, and strict security baselines.
This category serves as a deep technical repository for sysadmins and infrastructure engineers. Whether you are deploying bare-metal nodes, managing hybrid active directory topologies, or streamlining lifecycle operations via command-line tooling, these verified guides offer production-ready solutions to keep your server fleet stable, secure, and highly optimized.
Core Infrastructure Pillars
To assist with your environment maintenance, our essential Windows Server documentation is organized by administrative focus:
- Active Directory & Directory Services: Core identity and authentication management. Master directory mechanics with high-traffic deep dives like learning how to list all SPNs used in your Active Directory or integrating centralized public keys.
- Enterprise Update Management (WSUS & SSU): Take control of patch deployments and avoid manual clicking. Optimize your patching cycles with essential automation scripts to install Windows Updates using PowerShell and enforce foreground background-infrastructure downloads.
- Storage & Volume Optimization: Prevent volume exhaustion and keep systems operational. When disk space runs low, quickly restore availability using our guides for standard Disk Cleanup in Windows Server or advanced data reclamation.
- Secure Automation & Remote Access: Move away from insecure remote management. Implement modern administrative channels by learning to install and configure OpenSSH in Windows Server natively.
Browse the extensive chronological list of Windows Server tutorials, group policy enforcement templates, and deep-level registry troubleshooting guides below.
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Quickly check EnableTrailerSupport isn’t set in your network for http.sys (CVE-2022-21907)
Find out fast if your IIS webservers have EnableTrailerSupport enabled for https.sys in the registry. Here is a small PowerShell method.
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Convert SqlCe database to SQL Server
How can I convert an SqlCe database to Microsoft SQL Server?
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3 Ways of blocking sendmail.php on IIS webserver
Block PHP files like sendmail.php on Windows Server IIS webservers. 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. Here are 3 methods.
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Add VirtIO drivers to Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)
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.
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Retrieve SSH public key from Active Directory for SSH authentication
Storing SSH public keys in Windows Server Active Directory gives you a single location where you manage public SSH keys instead of on numerous separate servers. This is easier than distributing and managing numerous unmanaged authorized_keys files across your network and servers.
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Install SQL Server cumulative updates silently
Learn how to install SQL Server cumulative updates (CU) silently using PowerShell opposed to the cumbersome task of running the GUI installer.
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Remove computer object from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in PowerShell
short PowerShell snippet for you to remove a computer object from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
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Add, list and remove IP addresses in Windows Firewall
Add, list, and remove IP addresses in Windows Firewall (PowerShell & netsh): 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.
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Block brute force attacks on SQL Server, block IP addresses in Windows Firewall using PowerShell
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.
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How to enable HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022
Native support for HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022, jeej! Host HTTP/3 web services in Windows
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Windows Defender: Turn off routine remediation (DisableRoutinelyTakingAction)
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.
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How to share OpenSSH keys with WSL in Windows
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.
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Increase WMI memory to support large volume of queries
Learn how to fix memory issues and subsequent crashes in WMI / WmiPrvse.exe by increasing available memory and handles
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How-to fix Windows Defender error “Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.”
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.
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Install and setup IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows Server IIS (step by step)
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).
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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…
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Getting more out your Windows Performance Counters monitoring for web applications – part 3
Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS using _Process Performance Counter.
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ASP.NET web application monitoring in Zabbix, part 2
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.
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Monitor IIS application pools in Zabbix, part 1
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.