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Windows 10 - How to set Domain User permissions on the local PC An overview of the various available options to configure user permissions for an Active Directory domain on individual PC workstations

April 2, 2018August 3, 2020 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

Anyone who works as a System Administrator on Windows Server platforms is well aware of the importance of user permissions: in most cases it is advisable to provide their users …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Operating Systems / Windows

cURL and Wget alternatives for Windows Command Prompt with Powershell Some great Powershell alternatives to the Linux GNU Wget and cURL type command-line utilities using the System.Net namespace

March 2, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to find a way to execute a repeatable series of HTTP requests addressed to a Web Server from a Windows 10 machine. If it were a Linux …

Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Software

Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities: what you need to know

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In the past 24 hours, two critical flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs were publicly released to the public. Both of them were originally discovered last year by Google’s Project …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows Users in Administrators Group without Administrator rights - How to Fix

December 28, 2017December 2, 2019 - by Ryan - 7 Comments.

Here's a common issue that every Windows System Administrators will experience sooner or later when dealing with Windows Server (or Windows 10) and its odd way to handle the Administrators …

Coding / Operating Systems / Windows

RunningLow - PowerShell script to check for disk space and send e-mail A free PowerShell script that will check for low disk space on local and/or network drives and servers and send e-mail to System Administrators

August 31, 2017August 23, 2019 - by Ryan - 37 Comments.

Today I would like to share with our readers RunningLow, a simple yet effective PowerShell script I coded a while ago to get to know when one of my servers …

Operating Systems / Software / Tools & Utilities / Windows

How to increase the 2GB memory limit of a 32-bit (x86) EXE in 64-bit (x64) Windows

June 26, 2017August 27, 2017 - by Ryan - 5 Comments.

If you're reading this, you are most likely dealing with an issue regarding a 64-bit Windows machine (such as Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2012 Server, Windows 7, Windows 10 and …

Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Web / Windows

WannaCry: how to check if your system is protected using a PowerShell script

May 17, 2017December 1, 2018 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post you are probably well-aware of the Win32/WannaCrypt Ransomware, better known as WannaCry: we already talked about it in this other post, which contains an extensive list …

Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Web / Windows

WannaCry Malware Official Patches - All Windows Versions from Microsoft Technet

May 16, 2017January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

If you stumbled upon this post you most certainly know about the recent Ransomware called Ransom:Win32/WannaCrypt, better known as WannaCry, and you want to know if your system is immune to …

Coding / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web / Windows

How to delete files older than X days from FTP server or folder with a batch file in Windows

April 27, 2017August 27, 2017 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've read this post of mine you already know about FTPUSE: a great command-line freeware tool that we can use to map a FTP server or folder to a …

Coding / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

How to map any FTP server and/or folder to a Windows drive letter using FTPUSE

April 27, 2017January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 5 Comments.

FTP servers and FTP connections are often the best solution you can get for a number of dedicate system administrative tasks, such as: system backup, remote backup, secure file exchange …