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Windows Server 2019

2021

How to configure IIS logging using PowerShell
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Get-ChildItem Get-ItemProperty Get-PSProvider Import-Module
Log files are great places to look when troubleshooting or analyzing your website traffic. Every time your IIS receives a client’s request, it records that request in a log file. In this post, I want to show you how to use PowerShell to configure and manage IIS log files, such as changing the logging frequency or setting the folder where IIS will store log files or, if you prefer, how to turn off logging.
How to install IIS on Windows Server with SSL using PowerShell
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Get-ChildItem Get-PSProvider Get-WebBinding Import-Module
Today I want to show you how to install Internet Information Server (IIS) on my favorite operating system, Windows Server using PowerShell. IIS is a great feature that allows us to provide our server with an extensible web server.

2020

How to Add a Public Domain UPN Suffix to Domain Users in Active Directory
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Active Directory Get-ADForest Microsoft Microsoft 365
A User Principal Name (UPN) is an attribute that is an internet communication standard for user accounts. A UPN consists of a UPN prefix (the user account name) and a UPN suffix (a DNS domain name).
How to enable SMB encryption on Windows Server
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Get-SmbConnection Get-SmbServerConfiguration Get-SmbShare Microsoft
Since Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, we have version 3.0 of the SMB protocol. This version includes several SMB security enhancements, one of which is encryption. Implementation of this enhancement enables us to encrypt data transferred over the network between the SMB file server and the client.
How to check the size of the Active Directory Database
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Active Directory Active Directory Database Microsoft Microsoft Windows
The size of the active directory database on a domain controller is the size of the NTDS.dit file. This size may vary between domain controllers in the same domain, due to non-replicated changes, differences with non-replicated data, and white-space from purge objects.

2019

How to Collect Information from Domain Controllers
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Active Directory dcdiag.exe Get-ADDomain Get-ADDomainController
Recently I have needed to collect information from domain controllers to generate a pre-migration report. To perform this task, I used different tools available on Windows Server. Today, in this post, I will show you how to collect information from domain controllers using a PowerShell script and command-line tools such as DCDIAG and NLTEST.
How to relocate Hyper-V VM files to another location
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Microsoft Microsoft Windows Move-VMStorage Storage
Either because your storage device begins to run out of space, or you simply need to reorganize the files of your virtual machines it is often necessary to move the storage of our virtual machines to a new location.
Active Directory Snapshots using NTDSUTIL
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Active Directory Database dsamain.exe Microsoft Microsoft Windows
In this post, I want to show you how you can use ntdsutil.exe to create snapshots of the Active Directory database and how you can use tools to examine its contents, either to compare or transfer objects without starting in Restore Mode Directory Services (DSRM)
How to Install Docker on Windows Server
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Docker docker info docker run docker version
In this post, I want to show you how to install Docker on Windows Server 2016/2019. The process to install Docker in Windows Server is easy with the help of the PowerShell module of the OneGet provider.