Category: Computers
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How I remotely access and manage my servers even when they are powered off!
In this video I talk about how I remotely access the servers in my videos “Out-of-band” aka via a Java console even when they are powered off. I have received quite a few questions about this one and figured it was time to do a video. This is what allows me to access the BIOS…
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ELK Stack Pt. 2: Collecting logs from remote servers via Beats
In one of my recent posts, Installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) on Windows Server 2012 R2, I explained how to setup and install an ELK server but it was only collecting logs from itself. That in itself isn’t very useful as the real value is when you begin collecting and indexing all of the…
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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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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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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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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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Dell CS24-SC BIOS & BMC v2.5 Firmware Download
Here are the most current BIOS and BMC firmwares available for the Dell CS24-SC that I know of. The BMC upgrade makes the fans considerably less loud and has a few upgrades to the BMC Software/Web GUI. With the Bios update I am now able to run Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1 on the…
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Home Server Stack v2
It has been a year or so since I have done an update on my home server stack, there have been a considerable amount of changes and of course a lot of lessons learned. I recently changed jobs and had to move my stack over 1500 miles away, which ended up in a complete rethink…
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