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Event Viewer: come inviare notifiche e-mail dal Registro Eventi con uno script Powershell
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Windows

Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server

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A couple of years ago I published an article explaining how to send notification E-Mail messages with PowerShell. I wrote that post to demonstrate how a simple notification script could …

Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server Read More
hMailServer - Mail Server open-source per Windows con gestione POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam e altro
Servers & Services / Web / Windows

hMailServer - Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more Introducing hMailServer, an Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more

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Being able to send and receive e-mail message without relying to external services is often an handy feature of any dedicated server, be it a dedicated/hosted one or a VPS/cloud-based …

hMailServer - Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more Introducing hMailServer, an Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more Read More
php-cgi.exe - The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly error and how to fix it
Servers & Services / Web / Windows

Send E-Mail messages with PHP using Authenticated SMTP A brief tutorial explaining how to send e-mail messages with PHP using authenticated SMTP: PHPMailer, SendMail, Fake SendMail and other methods

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The ability to programmatically send e-mail messages with PHP is a feature used by a large amount of opensource software written using the most famous scripting language on the web: …

Send E-Mail messages with PHP using Authenticated SMTP A brief tutorial explaining how to send e-mail messages with PHP using authenticated SMTP: PHPMailer, SendMail, Fake SendMail and other methods Read More
Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know
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Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that your mailbox has been recently visited by an e-mail from Microsoft congratulating you for being awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable …

Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail Read More
Come installare MariaDB 10.x su CentOS 7.x e metterlo in sicurezza per l'utilizzo in produzione
Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / SQL

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact

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It has been a while since MariaDB 10.3 has been out, bringing its stunning pack of changes, improvements and new features - most notably, System-versioned tables and Sequences. If you found this …

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact Read More
Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump
Coding / Servers & Services / SQL

Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line

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If you like playing with MySQL or MariaDB servers, you most likely know that both of these great open-source DBMS come with mysqldump, a neat command-line utility that can be used to …

Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line Read More
Wordpress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix
Coding / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB

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The "Error establishing a database connection" WordPress error is a rather common one. You can either get it upon each request, meaning that you WordPress site is entirely down, or intermittently (randomly …

WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB Read More
How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL
Applications / Servers & Services / Web

How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL A short tutorial explaining how to clear Chrome's sticky memory for redirects without clearing all your browsing data

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As you most likely known since you found this post, Google Chrome - just like most other browsers - implements the 301 redirect caching, meaning that it will often locally cache …

How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL A short tutorial explaining how to clear Chrome's sticky memory for redirects without clearing all your browsing data Read More
ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio
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ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files

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A few months ago I've written a post here explaining how to programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# using the Microsoft Office primary interop …

ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files Read More
Wordpress - How to Fix Home Page Caching Issues by setting the Last-Modified response Header to the most recent post
Coding / HTML & CSS / JavaScript / PHP / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

Best WordPress Plugins to Compress Images, JS and CSS An updated list of compression-bases plugins that will make your WordPress website load quicker

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Maintaining a WordPress website is a tough task in itself let apart the confusion of choosing which plug-ins to use for a hassle free and optimum experience. Since it was …

Best WordPress Plugins to Compress Images, JS and CSS An updated list of compression-bases plugins that will make your WordPress website load quicker Read More