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Mastering Windows Server requires more than just following documentation; it’s about navigating the real-world complexities of deployment, security, and performance. From optimizing IIS for high-traffic environments and hardening OpenSSH configurations to managing PHP on Windows, this section provides deep-dive tutorials and battle-tested scripts. Whether you are managing legacy builds or the latest Windows Server 2025 releases, these guides focus on efficiency and stability for the modern infrastructure.
As environments shift toward hybrid setups, the integration between Windows Server and Linux-based tools has never been more critical. Here, you will find specialized knowledge on bridging that gap, including DevOps workflows, automation via PowerShell, and hardware-backed security. These articles are written by a sysadmin for sysadmins – cutting through the noise to deliver the specific configurations you need to keep your production environments running smoothly.
How to use GnuWin32 ported tools like grep.exe and find.exe for forensic log file analysis in Windows Server. Find webshells and backdoors in websites, check visitor's IP addresses or hits to backdoor/webshell files in IIS log files easy. Command-line log analysis in Windows Server, search for Joomla-, WordPress-, Drupal- and PHP- malware & backdoors in your website with grep and find.
This post describes some of the IIS URL Rewrite Module web.config equivalents of commonly used Apache .htaccess settings. You'll learn how to translate .htaccess content to IIS web.config, this is useful when you need to migrate your website from Apache to Windows Server IIS.
In this article you'll learn how to install and set up PHP with the Windows Cache Extension (WinCache) on windows IIS web servers. WinCache enabled PHP gives a great PHP performance boost for your WordPress-, Drupal or Joomla website. This post will show you it's not hard to set up high performance PHP hosting on IIS.
Removing ETag response headers is not an easy task in Windows Server IIS web servers. Here I show you how to properly remove ETag HTTP response headers with an IIS Rewrite Module Outbound rewrite rule.
The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value is an IIS error telling you the length of the given URL exceeds a limit (...).
How to use MySQL Connector/NET 6.5 with MySqlClientPermission Class in partial (medium) trust
Silently deploy applications through Windows Deployment Services (WDS) / Microsoft Deployment Workbench
Learn how to use .htaccess in Windows Server IIS. Before IIS 7 and the URL Rewrite module, you had to rely on third party extensions to IIS for URL rewriting with .htaccess files.
When you host your PHP website on Windows Server IIS, you may receive an "No input file specified" error message, when a HTTP request is made to non-existing .php files. When this happens you probably have no Request Restrictions configured in IIS PHP handler settings. Here is how to fix the "no input file specified error" with PHP and IIS.