Windows Server

HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start - Solution How to fix the HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start when publishing an ASP.NET Core Web Application to IIS

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you've just published a new ASP.NET Core Web Application on a Windows web server using Internet Information Services (IIS) …

Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Privacy & Compliance / RAM, HDD & SSD / Tools & Utilities / Windows

Windows Native Data Encryption At-Rest with BitLocker How to encrypt at-rest your Windows 10 PC drives without third-party software (even without a TPM hardware module)

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 - by Alice - Leave a Comment

Implementing Data Encryption at-rest on all clients and server machine became a fundamental pillar of the IT Security policy of most companies. In this article we'll see how we can …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - Force a Remote Group Policy Refresh with GPUpdate, Invoke-GPUpdate or GPMC How to force the update / refresh of the local Group Policy settings of an Active Directory Windows Client using either the GPMC, the GPUpdate command-line tool or Powershell

May 21, 2020January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we published an article explaining how to disable file copy through RDP using Group Policy for all the Windows clients within the same Active Directory forest. …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - How to list all Services using CMD and Powershell A set of useful Windows command-line and Powershell tools to show the System Services, searching and filtering them and so on

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

As you most likely already know, in Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background, just like daemons in a Unix-like environment. They …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - Disable file copy through RDP with Group Policy How to configure the Local or AD Group Policy Objects to disable Clipboard redirection, Drive mapping/redirection, LPT port redirection and/or COM port redirection through Remote Desktop Protocol

May 11, 2020May 21, 2020 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

In this post we'll see how we can use the Windows Server Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to globally disable some useful - yet potentially harmful - features that natively come …

Coding / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Windows

Disable-Inactive-ADAccounts - Active Directory users PS script A small yet useful Powershell script that disables all the Active Directory user accounts inactive for more than X days (and/or deletes those that have been disabled more than Y days ago)

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post we'll talk about Disable-Inactive-ADAccounts, a small yet useful Powershell script that can be used by System Administrators to perform the following tasks: Disable all the Active Directory …

Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Windows

Windows Services complete list with Short Name and Display Name A comprehensive list of most - if not all - Windows Services available, together with their system ShortName and Display Name

August 21, 2019October 19, 2020 - by Ryan - 5 Comments.

Here's a comprehensive list of most - if not all - Windows Service available nowadays on the major Windows operating systems - Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and so on. …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web / Windows

IIS - How to restrict a web site access to some IP addresses Brief tutorial explaining how to use the IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions IIS feature to allow or deny access to web sites, folders, and/or files

March 4, 2019October 28, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post we'll deal with one of the most undervalued and semi-unknown features of Internet Information Services, better known as IIS, the web server shipped with most Windows client …

Impostare lo Shutdown o il Reboot automatico di Windows

Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Windows

Windows - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Task Scheduler - Cron Jobs alternative How to setup the automatic reboot and/or shutdown of a Windows 10 or Windows Server machine with the built-in Task Scheduler feature

November 20, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

Despite the common belief, the practice of programming a system reboot or shutdown of a client or server machine isn't necessarily a bad thing: in some limited scenario planning a regular …

Servers & Services / SQL / Tools & Utilities / Windows

Enable DTS Designer in SQL Server Management Studio - How to How to make the DTS Designer component for SQL Server 2000 work in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2005, 2008 and above

October 28, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

Today I had to update a certain number of old Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP virtual machines to their Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 up-to-date counterparts. Among the …