Contents tagged with windows server
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Resetting your password via the command line
If, like me, you're working remotely at the moment you might be spending a non-trivial amount of time using Remote Desktop to hop on and off various machines. It might be that, also like me, you …
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Why my Pi-hole was logging tens of thousands of queries against my default gateway for domain SRV records
If you're running Pi-hole (which you should if you can, it's awesome - you can even run it on a virtual machine) and also happen to be running it in an Active Directory environment, there are …
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SQL Server Reporting Services subscriptions fail to send email
We've recently had reports that some scheduled reports that are emailed out haven't been sent/received, looking at SSRS the error that was showing was:
Failure sending mail: The report server has …
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Using PowerShell to start and stop Hyper-V virtual machines
I've been doing a bit of VM Host upgrading recently and being able to mainpulate VMs on said hosts via the command line makes things go a lot quicker! Here's two PowerShell commands I've executed …
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How to force Windows 10 / Server 201x to scan for updates
One of the irritations of Windows 10 and its accompanying server editions is that there's no user interface surfaced to re-scan for available updates. The ability to do this comes in handy if, say, …
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Getting Opserver (the awesome monitoring solution from Stack Exchange) to monitor DMZ servers
I've written about how awesome Opserver is before, but one thing I hadn't had time or opportunity for was getting the dashboard (which operates via WMI) working for servers that are sat in our DMZ. …
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Scheduled Task that runs a PowerShell script returning 0x80070001
I've recently migrated several scheduled tasks from one machine to another as part of a rationalisation process. A couple of these tasks were ones that can only be run at a certain time, so were …
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Updating IIS application pools using appcmd
When it comes to configuring IIS it turns out there are quite a few different ways that you can do this:
Using the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
Hand editing web.config and …
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Running Pi-hole on a CentOS virtual machine
Pi-hole is an awesome piece of software intended to be run on a Raspberry Pi (the clue's in the name!) that will sit quietly on your network responding to DNS requests, dropping ones for spammy …
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Setting up OpServer, the awesome monitoring solution from Stack Exchange
Monitoring. You know it's important, I know it's important, Everyone knows it's important, but,... it's often not given the focus that it so justly deserves.
If you're in a position where you don' …