Category: Blog
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Modifying HTTP Response Headers in IIS 8 with URL Rewrite
If you have ever scanned your own site or a site you are responsible for you may have noticed that web servers sometimes tend to give out more information about themselves than is really needed. This information can also be used by an attacker to then target the specific versions of software the server is…
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ELK Stack Pt. 1: Installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) on Windows Server 2012 R2
An updated version of this post can be found here: Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) โ Windows Server 2016 What is an ELK stack and why would you want one in your environment? Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) is the combination of 3 separate pieces of software from the same vendor, Elastic. The…
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How to install VMware vSphere ESXi 6 (Video)
In this video I demo how to install VMware vSphere ESXi 6 onto a Dell C2100 Server and I take you through everything from basic installation and configuration all the way up to connecting and managing the instance via the vSphere client. You will need the following at the very minimum to run ESXi 6:…
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Ultimate Media Server Setup Guide 2016 (Video)
It has been awhile since I have made a video on media servers and boy has this space changed. I no longer use any of the media servers I previously made videos on and my personal setup along with the devices I use has changed quite a bit. That combined with the fact that this…
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IIS 8 with ECC certificates – increasing your SSL Security on Windows Server 2012
What is an ECC Certificate and why would you need one? The main difference with an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate is with how the certificate is signed, in this case the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is used vs the standard RSA we are used to seeing. Once you have a certificate signed…
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Using Windows Server 2012 R2 for Shared Storage via iSCSI with Microsoft Failover Clustering (Video How-to)
In this video I give a basic break down of how to install and configure shared storage on Windows Server 2012 R2 and then use that storage with a Microsoft Failover Cluster with Multi-path I/O (MPIO) support and 100% validation in cluster manager. Shared storage is often the biggest hurdle when getting into building your…
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Veeam Backup & Replication 8 fails when accessing ESXi 6 hosts directly – Failed to login Unknown API version format: “dev”
Veeam Backup & Replication is great tool for when you don’t have vCenter available for whatever reason and you need to move some VMs and/or datastores. It has bailed me out of many sticky situations in the past. However in my most recent bind, I found I absolutely could not get it to connect directly…
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Hardening SSL & TLS connections on Windows Server 2008 R2 & 2012 R2
Hardening your SSL/TLS connections is a pretty common thing to do on any Windows Server running IIS and web applications that utilize HTTPS, especially if they require some sort of compliance. It is generally a good idea to do this on all of your servers though, to ensure your secure connections really are secure. On…
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Dell CS24-SC BMC Remote Control not working? Try 32-bit Java 7!
When it comes to Java and Dell Remote Access Cards or BMCs, a simple Java update can render remote access completely useless. The older the hardware the more likely an update is going to break the KVM software. In this case with the Dell CS24-SC, I have found the BMC tends to specifically like 32-bit…
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Fix the obsolete cryptography warning in Chrome on IIS 7 & 8
Update – 2.2.2016 – The ciphers originally listed in this post no longer work to fix the obsolete cryptography warning as Google has upped the requirement from DHE with AES_128_GCM to ECDHE with AES_128_GCM or CHACHA20_POLY1305. The only ciphers we have on Windows that are close to this requirement are all ECDHE-ECDSA which will require…
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