I recently went to deploy a new Powershell based Startup script in my test environment, and while the majority of my Windows machines happily complied, 2 of my test servers that were running Remote Desktop Services did not like the Continue reading
In the previous two posts I went over everything from installing Ubuntu to getting the ELK stack setup and ingesting logs from itself. Now in this final post in the series I am going to cover collecting Windows Event and Continue reading
Bots and Website Scrapers can be a serious annoyance to anyone who is responsible for administering a website and the more sites and servers you are responsible the more of a problem it can become. Every request a bot or Continue reading
In one of my recent posts, Installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) on Windows Server 2012 R2, I explained how to setup and install an ELK server but it was only collecting logs from itself. That in itself isn’t very Continue reading
This is my cheat sheet for sending E-Mail through a SMTP Server. This is particularly useful when configuring and testing a new SMTP server. PowerShell: Send-MailMessage -SMTPServer hostname -To youremail@domain.com -From none@none.com -Subject “This is a test email” -Body “This Continue reading
Update – 04.06.2021 – I have an updated version of this script that is a little more flexible and has better output, you can find the new script here: /2021/04/powershell-script-quickly-find-the-largest-files/ This is a super easy to use and flexible PowerShell Continue reading
This is my simple logon script for the popular BGInfo utility that uses a few batch scripts along with Group Policy to run at each user login. What this script does: Checks to see if bginfo.exe exist on the local Continue reading
In this post I want to talk about a few PowerShell commands for grabbing info about IIS bindings that utilize the Webadministration Module. When a server is running a lot of sites, sorting through the bindings can be a daunting Continue reading
PHP is a fantastic dynamic programing language which runs great on IIS, but can be a bit slow at times. Traditionally PHP runs on IIS either as an ISAPI extension or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) program, running PHP Continue reading
Stretching a background image with CSS This simple snippet of CSS will stretch or shrink a background image based on the resolution of the browser. Add the following CSS to your stylesheet(for WordPress add this under your themes stylesheet): body Continue reading