Web Deploy 3.5, the answer to scalability with web farms. http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy Similar to the use of Chef or Puppet, you can use Web Deploy 3.5 to push web server configuration and content to all you web servers in your farm. Previously i used IISCnfg to handle this back in the IIS6 days, but haven’t needed to do …
Do you often connect to servers using RDP client and wish to have your local drives mapped, or have preferences for the display? The following steps walk you through making changes to the default settings. Step 1 open your my documents folder and locate the hidden file Default.rdp. Right click the file and select “edit” …
I run across this quite a bit and decided to save this info. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1179
If you have endpoint security concerns you should do yourself a favor and look into Microsoft EMET 5.2. I am having early success in testing this and recommend you do the same. According to Microsoft, “There is no one tool capable of preventing all attacks. EMET is designed to make it more difficult, expensive and …
I used to do this with a batch file and for some reason it didnt work on Windows 7 SP1 today. So i asked a colleague for a powershell way to do this quickly. Props to Robert Ramsay over at NAMMCAL with the script. copy the following and save in the c:\scripts folder as ping.ps1 …
Had to look this up again today when troubleshooting an HP embedded array controller (P410i) This issue i ran into was the event logs were displaying the following errors Event ID 11 The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. and Event ID 24606 …
An FTP server we manage had low disk space and it looked like 60GB were missing from this server. Upon investigation we found the following folder (which was hidden) had files taking up the disk space: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue This folder is used by windows error reporting, the replacement for Dr. Watson. It was keeping reports …
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Need to determine where your disk space went? copy the following into a file named files.ps1 create a new folder named scripts and save this file in that folder (c:\scripts\files.ps1) ————————————————————————————- # Loops through each directory recursively in the current directory and lists its size. # Children nodes of parents are tabbed function getSizeOfFolders($Parent, …
read more here: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/23/7878429/windows-10-technical-preview-january-download