Contents tagged with Administration
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Windows Update fails with error 8007000E in Windows 2008 R2
I have been doing a lot of work with Windows Update and patching recently and have encountered error 8007000E in Windows 2008 R2 numerous times. While I consider this a generic error as numerous factors can cause this error to be thrown, there are a few steps that you can take to get past this error and get your Windows
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Securely Transmit a Secret [password]
“Help, Dick, Help!” exclaimed Sally. “I lost my password” “Look, Jane, Look,” said Dick. “I emailed you your password.” Jane sees her password. Everybody sees her password. Jane is sad. Dick is sad. Transmitting secret information, such as a password, to a user across the Internet is often mishandled. One common way is to send the password through email. While
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Managing ASP.Net Membership Users and Roles
ASP.Net Membership was first introduced in ASP.Net 2.0 and is relatively easy to implement in your web application. As it has evolved there have been changes that add more features and extensibility but have obscured some of the basic tools needed to easily manage it. The ability to easily add users and roles to an initial implementation is one task I recently encountered that is difficult
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Improve your online presence
For years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been a buzzword throughout the Internet community. Companies have spent large amounts of money and used all sorts of tactics in an attempt to rank high on targeted search page results. SEO is certainly one factor that is helpful in driving new business to your site. But have you considered the user experience?
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Monitor a site’s downtime…for free!
You have a really cool website that you or someone else designed, right? That’s great but it doesn’t do you much good if the site is down. Nobody can get to it and learn about your product or service, or even worse, buy something from you if it’s an ecommerce site.
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Require Client Certificates in IIS 7.5
Systems administrators often mistakenly correlate client certificates with SSL server certificates. Here is a great post from David Dietz that helps clear up some of the misconceptions.
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Windows PowerShell 4.0 Preview
As a systems administrator you like to stay on top of the latest technologies, right? Well you won’t want to miss the opportunity to get ahead of the curve and start experimenting with Windows PowerShell 4.0. It is included as part of the Windows Management Framework 4.0 Preview located in the Microsoft Download Center.
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Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Services
In previous versions of Windows, Remote Desktop Services (RDS) was known as Terminal Services. There have been many changes made to this collection of services in Windows 2012. If you are looking for a list of these changes, there are a large number of blog posts out there that explain in detail all the changes.
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Installing SQL Server Native Client 10.0
I came across an issue today where a website had a dependency on the SQL Server Native Client 10.0, which is part of SQL Server 2008. A recent upgrade to SQL Server 2012 caused SQL Server Native Client 11.0 to be installed and version 10.0 to be uninstalled.
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Restricting web site traffic in IIS 7 and IIS 8
Sometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the structure of your organization may prevent that from happening in a timely manner. Or maybe you are frequently making changes to the restrictions making that a cumbersome chore.