A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
I’m doing some load testing on one of my SMTP Smart Hosts, and needed to send a few thousand emails in a controlled space of time. I’ve written this quick little script to do so: $scriptSettings = @{ NumberOfEmails = 100 TimeBetweenEmails = 1 #in seconds MailDestination = ‘user.name@contoso.com’ MailSubject = ‘Test’ MailServer = ‘mail.contoso.com’ MailFrom = ‘no-reply@contoso.com’ } for […]
Read moreWith the advent of Windows PowerShell, performing bulk tasks just gets easier and easier. Consider a scenario where you have a bunch of Domain Local groups that you need to convert to Global…or any other type of conversion. This is a task that can take a large amount of time to complete manually, even with copious amounts of coffee and […]
Read moreThere’s no built-in feature at this time to enable litigation hold for all mailboxes in Exchange Online, but some organisations have this as a requirement. Here’s a script that can be run ad-hoc to enable litigation hold for all mailboxes. When prompted, enter your Exchange Online credentials. # Connect to Exchange Online $exo = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange ` -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell-liveid […]
Read moreDeploying IIS on A Windows Container can be done In two ways, First way deploy windows Nano Server Container and then Install IIS using DISM, Second way and more simple and recommended Is downloading a Windows Nano Server Image with IIS Installed and configured. In this article, I’ll use the first option and In the next few days, I’ll blog […]
Read moreTo create a basic Windows Container, I’ll use the docker run command which will create a Windows Nano Server 2016 Container without a specific name. open port or any other customization. The -it switch will automatically enter you Into the Container terminal docker run -it microsoft/nanoserver To create a Windows Container with a custom name and port 80 open I’ll […]
Read moreIn this article, I’ll show you how to deploy Windows Containers on Windows Server 2016 with the Docker Engine management tool. Windows Containers was first released with Windows Server 2016 and it was In the making for a few years before the release. The management tool for Windows Containers Is Docker Engine which offers a set of commands that allows us […]
Read moreWhat Is Windows Containers? Windows Containers Is a new Server Technology that allows us to run a clean Instance of Windows Server on the same Host. Windows Containers are not VMs because they share the kernel with the container host and all other containers running on it. Windows Containers keep a sandbox file that records all the changes that are […]
Read moreIn this article, I’ll show you how to disable the Windows Firewall on A Windows Nano Server 2016. Below, you will see two methods to do it one using Netsh and the second using Set-NetFirewallProfile (PowerShell) you can use either of them. To disable the firewall connect to your Nano Server using PowerShelland run the line below to disable the Firewall: netsh […]
Read moreIn this article, I’ll show you how to modify \ Change the existing DNS Server IP address on a Windows Nano Server 2016. To complete this operation, You will need to connect to the Server with an admin account and use Remote PowerShell. To get started, I’ve connected to my Nano Server using PowerShell Remote. Once connected, I’ll need to find […]
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