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Change Password vs. Reset Password-Week 42
You can find this week’s video here . The differences between change password and reset password are not well known. This week's video walks through the differences and shows them in action. Tune in to find out more about password management. It wasn...
Resolving Blocked Ports Through Windows Firewall-Week 40
You can find this week’s video here . This week's video shows how to easily and quickly track down IPs and ports that need to be opened to allow legitimate traffic through the firewall. Part of being a web server administrator is keeping your firewalls...
Delayed execution startup script
There are times when it’s useful to have a script that runs on every server boot, but with a delay.  For example, let’s say that you want a script to recycle IIS five minutes after starting the server due to some slow starting dependencies. One of...
Posted: Jul 07 2011, 04:17 PM by OWScott | with 3 comment(s)
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DFS-R for Web Server Replication-Week 27
You can find this week’s video here . This week’s video lesson covers the end to end process of installing DFS, adding shared folders, troubleshooting, and watching it in action. Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) is a powerful means of keeping...
How to Setup an Active Directory Domain-Week 26
Today's lesson covers how to create an Active Directory domain and join a member server to it. This week's topic takes a slightly different turn from the normally IIS related topics, but this is key video to help setup either a test or production environment...
Securing IIS. Thwarting the Hacker-Week 23
This week's video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server.  Securing IIS is a necessary step that every web administrator needs to perform to properly prepare their web server with the best configuration. This week’s video...
Process Monitor Made Easy-Week 20
Every trade has their favorite tool, whether it be a hammer, calculator, or stethoscope.  For me, one of my top tools is Process Monitor.  I use it like a handy man uses duct tape.  With it I can easily troubleshoot access denied errors...
Issues getting Hyper-V Dynamic Memory to work in Win 2008 R2 SP1
On Wednesday Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 was made available for Technet and MSDN subscribers.  It will be available as a public download Feb 22nd. The dynamic memory feature is a huge benefit to our business model at Vaasnet...
Three Tricks For Capturing Command Line Output
The command line is still with us, in fact is some ways it’s stronger than ever.  Sometimes it may be necessary to capture the command line output.  This short video covers 3 tricks to capturing the command line output. This is part 4 of a 52...
What the “Failed Requests” counter in ARR really means
While troubleshooting an intermittent performance issue recently, the question came up: “What does the Failed Requests” counter in the Monitoring and Management feature in Application Request Routing (ARR) mean?” For example, does a failed health check...
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