My boss says the servers need to be restarted at least weekly I strongly disagree. Microsoft has made great strides since the good-ole [NT, anyone?] days with regard to stability and uptime. It’s a shame the consensus within IT support has not changed along with this. How often does everyone restart their Windows servers? Only … Read more
You can use OpenSSL. If you have to check the certificate with STARTTLS, then just do openssl s_client -connect mail.example.com:25 -starttls smtp or for a standard secure smtp port: openssl s_client -connect mail.example.com:465
There are several fairly easy options available for remotely managing a remote Windows Server using a command line, including a few native options. Native Options: WinRS/WinRM Windows Remote Shell/Management tool is the easiest way to remotely manage a remote Windows server in a command line utility, and as with most Windows command line utilities, ss64 … Read more
The clearest most succinct answer I could find is: How To See PC Startup And Shutdown History In Windows which lists these event ids to monitor (quoted but edited and reformatted from article): Event ID 6005 (alternate): “The event log service was started.” This is synonymous to system startup. Event ID 6006 (alternate): “The event … Read more
TL;DR version: Let Windows handle your memory/pagefile settings. The people at MS have spent a lot more hours thinking about these issues than most of us sysadmins. Many people seem to assume that Windows pushes data into the pagefile on demand. EG: something wants a lot of memory, and there is not enough RAM to … Read more
Update: The original question was for Windows Server 2008, but the solution is easier for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 7 and 8). You can add the user through the NTFS UI by typing it in directly. The name is in the format of IIS APPPOOL\{app pool name}. For example: … Read more
Here is Wikipedia‘s handy chart of the pursuit of nines: Interestingly, only 3 of the top 20 websites were able to achieve the mythical 5 nines or 99.999% uptime in 2007. They were Yahoo, AOL, and Comcast. In the first 4 months of 2008, some of the most popular social networks, didn’t even come close … Read more
I jumped through all the hoops: Create a non-admin account (in my case, activated the guest account). As Admin, run secpol.msc and grant this account Create Symbolic Link permissions. runas /user:guest cmd to open a command window as the guest.only to get caught on the simplest problem: because I was running as guest, I didn’t have write permissions within the directory. So, As admin, … Read more
It turns out to get this application working under VBScript, I had to do two things. Run RegAsm.exe to register the DLLs. Run the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cscript.exe to run my VBScript. If these don’t work, check out the other answer here about enabling 32-bit applications in IIS.