Contents tagged with windows server
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When's my domain password due to change?
If I'm due to take annual leave (as I did last week) I like to check that my password isn't going to expire whilst I'm out of the office and change it a couple of days before I go on leave, just …
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A brief look at the Windows Admin Center (1809)
A few days ago I happened to look at the list of recently installed updates in the Settings app and noticed that I'd received an update for Windows Admin Center 1809 which reminded me that I'd …
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Running a local npm repository on Windows Server using Verdaccio
I've recently had cause to build a local NPM repository server, for a couple of reasons (Edit: I started this post about 6 months ago and came back to it now, so if there's any parts where the …
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Getting a 403.501 error response from IIS? Check your 'Dynamic IP Restriction Settings'
One of the applications I inherited is composed of multiple applications and uses one of them as a central authentication solution (issuing tokens on login, refreshing them, revoking them, etc,..) …
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Counting the number of installed certificates via PowerShell
Bit of a random one, but should you ever need to count the number of certificates that are installed on a Windows Machine in the "Local Machine" store, here's a short PowerShell snippet that'll do …
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"unable to load certificates" when using openssl to generate a PFX
If you've tried to follow the instructions in my Generating an SSL certificate with SANs via a Windows Certificate Authority post and have run a command to combine the certificate and private key: …
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Generating an SSL certificate with SANs via a Windows Certificate Authority
There are doubtless other ways to generate an SSL certificate through a Windows Certificate Authority which have associated SANs (Subject Alternative Names), but one way I've found is particularly …
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What does "Manual (Trigger Start)" mean for a Windows Service?
There's a selection of different startup types that can be assigned to a Windows Service, at least as seen in the Services MMC snap-in, such as:
Disabled
Manual
Automatic
Automatic (Delayed …
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A basic MSMQ backed WCF server and client
After my recent post, MSMQ messages ending up in the "Transactional dead-letter messages" System Queue, I decided to build up my understanding of how MSMQ backed WCF services work by putting together …
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MSMQ messages ending up in the "Transactional dead-letter messages" System Queue
I've been working with a solution recently that uses MSMQ to, well, pass messages between components running on different machines. It's been implemented using WCF as the abstraction layer, so …