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Windows from a sysadmin's seat: the command line, networking, IIS and making Windows behave on a server.

58 posts on Windows.

2020-02

2020-02-22 Convert a PuTTY private key to openssh

2018-05

2018-05-14 Remote Desktop error: CredSSP encryption oracle remediation

2017-05

2017-05-19 (Dutch) Tech45 podcast #341: Technologica & WannaCry ransomware
2017-05-15 Ways in which the WannaCry ransomware could have been much worse

2017-02

2017-02-04 Microsoft announces GVFS: Git Virtual File System

2016-04

2016-04-17 Bash on Windows: a hidden bitcoin goldmine?

2016-03

2016-03-31 Running Bash on Ubuntu on Windows: Demo

2015-11

2015-11-03 Auto resize screen size for Windows 10 guest VMs in Virtualbox

2015-07

2015-07-08 Why Internet Explorer Won't Allow Cookies On (sub)domains With Underscores

2015-06

2015-06-27 The Broken State of Trust In Root Certificates
2015-06-18 How SSH In Windows Server Completely Changes The Game

2015-05

2015-05-16 It’s Cheaper To Upgrade An Illegal Windows Version Than Buy A New One
2015-05-14 Microsoft Remotely Locking Xbox One’s

2015-04

2015-04-08 Microsoft’s Nano Server & Hyper-V Containers

2015-02

2015-02-19 Tearing Down Lenovo’s Superfish Statement

2015-01

2015-01-21 Meet Microsoft’s Project Spartan, The New IE6

2014-11

2014-11-19 Yet Another Microsoft Windows CVE: Local Privilege Escalation MS14-068
2014-11-17 The Chocolatey Kickstarter: Making Windows More Like Linux
2014-11-13 Microsofts Open Source Strategy
2014-11-12 Slow login/DNS via Active Directory on OSX Mavericks and Yosemite (.local domains)
2014-11-12 Microsoft SSL/TLS vulnerability MS14-066

2012-05

2012-05-30 Loading the 3ware/LSI 9650SE drivers into VMware ESXi

2011-08

2011-08-20 Plesk: Unable to validate password policy: (1753) There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.

2011-07

2011-07-25 Windows Virtuozzo: unable to copy registry key on container start

2011-06

2011-06-19 VMware ESX(i) & Windows Server 2008: Updated driver for sluggish console access

2011-05

2011-05-23 Fixing Listen IPs In IIS (The network location cannot be reached)

2011-03

2011-03-17 The “SHOW PROCESSLIST;” equivalent in Microsoft SQL-Server
2011-03-14 VMWare Converter: vmodl.MethodFault (CloneVolume Error)

2010-04

2010-04-14 TCP Traffic Redirection on Windows

2009-12

2009-12-27 NetBIOS exploiting

2009-07

2009-07-26 How To Change A Server’s Main IP Address (including DNS records) In Plesk

2009-05

2009-05-11 Running IE6, IE7, IE8, FF 2, FF 3, Chrome, Opera & Safari
2009-05-05 Windows 7 Release Candidate Available For Download

2009-03

2009-03-11 Connect SQL Server Management Studio Express To Alternate TCP Port

2009-02

2009-02-27 PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again!

2008-11

2008-11-19 Plesk & MailEnable – missing measp.dll component: Error ‘ASP 0177 : 800401f3’
2008-11-15 Named/Bind: Could not listen on UDP socket : permission denied
2008-11-09 System Calls In Apache (Linux) vs IIS (Windows)

2008-10

2008-10-28 Widgets, Gadgets, … You Can Keep’m!
2008-10-23 How To Reset A (Administrator) Password On A Windows Server 2003
2008-10-19 Reading A .FLV File From Flash – Not Working Because Of Missing MIME Type
2008-10-17 Hardware Testing: Randomly Play “Fur Elise”
2008-10-03 How To Allow Empty Passwords In Remote Desktop (RDP – WinXP/2000/2003)
2008-10-01 How To Bypass Windows 98’s Security System

2008-09

2008-09-29 Prevent Thumbs.db Files From Being Created And Stored
2008-09-22 Top Tools For Penetration Testing (Security Analysis/Hacking)
2008-09-20 “The service could not bind instance 1. The data is the error code.”

2008-08

2008-08-30 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Update (kb928416) On x64 Server
2008-08-28 How To View E-Mail Headers In Outlook 2007
2008-08-27 Multiple Headers With Same Name Causing Errors In IIS
2008-08-15 How To Identify Hidden Processes In Windows (Rootkits)

2008-07

2008-07-27 Plesk Creation Of Mailbox Failed Because Alias Once Existed
2008-07-27 Converting Windows 2008 Server To A Workstation
2008-07-24 NsLookup Is More Powerful Than You Think
2008-07-16 Installing SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 on the same server
2008-07-13 Stress test your windows server

2008-06

2008-06-24 Changing network settings through the windows command line
2008-06-13 Overview of Windows User Accounts (including for IIS)