Send email with PowerShell
Easily send your DevOps reporting by email with this PowerShell function, because the Send-MailMessage cmdlet is obsolete. Of course you'll be using StartTLS and authenticated SMTP as additional security.
Configure Windows Debugging Symbols in WinDbg
In this article I explain how to set up debugging symbols for WinDbg in Windows.
Extract files from an MSI package
To extract all files from a .msi file, use the following msiexec command and arguments.
Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 DevOps environment
In this post I describe some of the settings and changes I made to make my Windows 10 and Ubuntu WSL into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps/SysOps on Windows.
Emulate ternary operator in PowerShell
For example when determinering if the server you are servicing is a Windows Server Desktop Experience version or Server Core
Setting up Monit monitoring in Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL
How to install and configure Monit monitoring in Windows 11/10 WSL
Silently import .reg file in your Windows registry
Learn how to silently import a .reg file into your Windows Registry. This neat regedit trick comes in handy quite often. The regedit command is valid for Windows 11, 10, Windows Server 2022, 2019 and older.
WsusPool keeps crashing: stops again and again
WSUSPool keeps stopping? Sometimes you find your WSUS server keeps crashing over and over again. The WSUS application pool periodically stops, WSUS is unavailable and/or the WSUS management console hangs.
Merge multiple files into one new file in Windows
A quicky: if you need to merge -or concatenate- multiple text files into one new file in Windows, you can use the copy command in cmd.exe, and here is how:
How to disable SMBv1 in Windows 10 and Windows Server
It is urged you disable SMBv1 in your Windows variant (Windows 10, 8.1, Server 2016, 2012 R2), and here is how if you haven't done so yet.
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