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Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS using _Process Performance Counter.

When you host multiple websites in IIS, and you need to monitor them, Zabbix is one of your options.

Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per IIS application pool in Zabbix so you can start monitoring Microsoft Windows Server IIS with Zabbix.

PowerShell ternary operator emulation for PowerShell 5.1.

Learn how to enable HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) in Linux Apache .htaccess.

Easily find out whether an update or patch is installed.

Learn how to install and enable the built-in OpenSSH Server on Windows, customize its installation directory and configure your `sshd_config` file.

Follow this if you have no more need for Windows Server IIS and want to remove IIS completely from Windows Server using PowerShell The post How to remove IIS from Windows Server using PowerShell appeared first on Sysadmins of the North.

HTTP Basic Authentication managed module for IIS enables HTTP Basic Authentication with virtual user support in Windows Server IIS.

WSUS uses BITS for downloading updates, and it does so in background mode.

Using WSL 2 it is pretty easy to install Hugo in Windows, setting up your local webdevelopment environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu's IP address, here is how.

When you migrate a file server and transfer data, you may need to recreate junction points, as they cannot be copied using (for example) Robocopy.exe.

Show the number of registered WordPress users in a At-a-Glance widget.

Find vulnerable WordPress plugins fast using PowerShell on Windows Server and IIS The post Find vulnerable WordPress plugin versions fast using PowerShell appeared first on Sysadmins of the North.

Securing the WordPress uploads folder is important.

In this post, I will show you how to connect to your KVM VMs (virtual machines) in Windows 10 via SSH using virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager) and qemu+ssh://.

Generate random strings in Bash to use as strong passwords using this BASH function in your `.bashrc` file for easy usage.

This post contains some example WMI filters for you to use in Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to target and manage specific Windows Server versions like 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2022 / 2019.

In this post I'll show you how to configure an IP allow list for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell, iisadministration and webadministration modules.

Remove application folders from the website configuration in IIS whose physical path on the filesystem was removed, using PowerShell The post Removing phantom application folders from website configuration in IIS appeared first on Sysadmins of the North.

How to change Akismet interval to three days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter.

Learn how to back up and restore IIS 10 webserver configuration with appcmd.exe and PowerShell The post IIS backup and restore appeared first on Sysadmins of the North.

MySQL Connector/NET and utf8mb4 character set can cause an exception System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException "The given key was not present in the dictionary".

Using -SeachBase with PowerShell's Get-ADComputer gives me faster results with AD DS queries.

Install Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) for Windows Server 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2019 using PowerShell, without downtime.

Automatically flush Redis cache when you publishing a post or page in WordPress.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog article about setting up Monit monitoring on an Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V.

Learn how to programmatically convert legacy Microsoft Access 2003 (.mdb) databases to the modern .accdb format using Classic ASP and the ACE engine.

Learn how to silently import a .reg file into your Windows Registry.

Umbraco 7 is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS).

Since Apache 2.4.6, a new module is used to configure and set up access control for websites: mod_authz_core.

Set SVN_EDITOR environment variable in Windows Server to resolve the svn error "None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR is set, and no ‘editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found."

A manual SQL Server failover can only be initiated from the principal server, and the mirrored database must be synchronized (that is, when the database is in the SYNCHRONIZED state).

Modern connection string examples for ASP.NET Core, Legacy ASP.NET, and Classic ASP.

Whenever you need to test your ASP.NET connection to your MySQL database, using ODBC, you can use the following C# test script.

Connect securely to your MySQL database using PHP Data Objects (PDO); Here is how to connect to MySQL with PHP PDO using SSL.

Using setspn.exe: 3 unique methods to list Service Principal Names (SPNs) in your Windows network quickly using PowerShell / CMD.exe.

If a Windows Server 2016 guest VM on Hyper-V hangs while stopping after Windows Updates, and it won't reboot, it might be caused by the recovery debug information type set.

How to increase the memory limit for your WordPress website, the right way.

Users can install and run multiple .NET Framework versions on their computers.

The postsuper command controls different types of queues in the Postfix mail system, like the deferred or hold queue.

Compressed SQL Server backups can be verified in PowerShell using a handy PowerShell function.

Unzip a file on your PowerShell command-prompt may come in handy sometimes, even on your Windows 11/10 workstation.

Learn how to restore a single table from a full MySQL mysqldump backup file using Bash shell in Linux The post Restore single MySQL table from a full mysqldump backup file appeared first on Sysadmins of the North.

How to protect your WordPress from brute-force XML-RPC attacks, because the WordPress XML-RPC API has been under attack for many years now.

WSUSPool keeps stopping?

Remove Jetpack email sharing service using WordPress plugin or theme functions.php file.

In this post I address four (4) important actionable security measures for your servers running Windows Server (AD DS, DFS, IIS) and RDP.

Disable SMBv1 on WIndows if you haven't done so yet.

Being able to detect the ethernet network speed using PowerShell or WMI is perfect for Windows Server Core.