Category: Windows Server

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 »

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 »