WordPress – Manual update of PHP 7.x on IIS
With Microsoft withdrawing support for PHP in the Web Platform Installer I needed to perform a manual upgrade of PHP on my Windows servers running IIS. There were a few… Read more »
Category: Windows Server
Windows Server 2016 – Changing the desktop background using Group Policy
So, who’s idea was that? How many of you are running Sever 2016? have you noticed the default background for the desktop experience is the same as Windows 10. That’s… Read more »
Windows 10 – Windows Hello for Business – Key based configuration
Windows Hello – it was working until November 2016? If like me you’ve been using Windows Hello on your devices that are domain joined quite happily up until the November… Read more »
Hyper-V – Windows 10 Hyper-V Client with VMs hosted on Bitlocker drives causing Kernel-Power events
Just a quick tip today. There are many of use running Hyper-V client on our Windows 10 PCs for development and testing purposes. If you, like me, have all your… Read more »
Azure – Migrating ASM to ARM – Removing extensions
So I’ve been looking at moving my VMs from their comfy home in “Classic” Azure to the new shiny world that is ARM. Like most people I had a look… Read more »
Azure – Azure Backup and email notifications
Azure backup is a fantastic tool for the enterprise but if you have a small set of servers that you are backing up daily there is no easy way to… Read more »
SharePoint – Configure SQL Alias
Ok, this is a pretty basic one but you’ll be amazed how many people don’t know how to do them. SQL aliasing as been around for years and in the… Read more »
SharePoint – Loopback check done the proper way!
A famous “hack” on within SharePoint is to remove the loopback check on a SharePoint server to allow it to serve its pages locally. This is ok in a development… Read more »
DirSync – Filtering down to a single tree-domain
DirSync in general is a great tool but sometimes there may be a requirement to separate the replication to different Azure/Office365 tenants. This might be a the case when you… Read more »