The easiest way to to provide free Let’s Encrypt SSL security for IIS website is to use letsencrypt-win-simple tool. Download and extract letsencrypt-win-simple to a folder on your IIS server Run letsencrypt.exe and follow a simple command line wizard: Provide email address for certificate expiration notifications Select which ISS website you will be securing. Make sure your…

This article assumes that you already have PHP installed and working and your PHP location is C:\PHP Download go-pear.phar file from https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar and save it as C:\PHP\PEAR\go-pear.phar  Open command prompt, navigate (cd) to C:\PHP\PEAR and run: php go-pear.phar Accept all installation defaults: Install Type: System-Wide Default paths: Yes (double check that path to your PHP install is correct) Update php.ini: Yes

  Download non-thread based PHP 7 from windows.php.net. (I used version php-7.1.5-nts-Win32-VC14-x64) Extract all files to C:\PHP Rename php.ini-production to php.ini and make following changes: Uncomment and set: cgi.force_redirect = 0 Uncomment and set: fastcgi.impersonate = 1 Uncomment and set: extension_dir = “ext” Add ;C:\PHP to Windows Environment PATH Variable: Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings >…

Issue After replacing a wildcard SSL certificate (*.domain.com) with a basic single-server certificate (webmail.domain.com) remote clients using Microsoft Outlook can no longer connect to their email accounts on an Exchange server using HTTP Proxy Method. Outlook displays below error and then repeatedly prompts for a password: There is a problem with the proxy server’s security…

If you don’t use anti-spam feature on Microsoft Exchange server you can uninstall anti-spam agents completely: Open Exchange Management Shell Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts Run .\uninstall-AntispamAgents.ps1 cmdlet Confirm uninstall for each agent

Issue Microsoft Exchange 2007 regularly logs following errors in Windows Application Logs: Event ID: 12014Source: MSExchangeTransportLevel: ErrorDescription:Microsoft Exchange could not find a certificate that contains the domain name <server-name.domain.local> in the personal store on the local computer. Therefore, it is unable to support the STARTTLS SMTP verb for the connector Default Send Connector with a…

Issue After removing SharePoint 3.0 from Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008, Terminal Services Gateway stops working. This in turns causes issues with Remote Web Workplace (RWW). The Terminal Services Gateway service fails to start with following error: Windows could not start the Terminal Services Gateway service on Local Computer.Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to…

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS 3.2) running on up-to-date Windows Server 2008R2 machine are failing to download Windows 10 Anniversary Update. WSUS Console Overview page shows download status progressing up to 100% (4,844.37 MB of 4,844.37 MB), but then it just gets stuck and never changes.

New Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) and Windows Server 2016 group policy templates (.admx and .adml) can be download from Microsoft (Windows Server 2016 ADMX.msi package). Install the downloaded .msi package on a client PC and all the template files will be copied to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016\PolicyDefinitions folder.

Issue Symantec Backup Exec 15 agent manual installation on Windows Server 2003 R2 fails with following error: Microsoft VC++ Redistributables (x86) Installation failed.

Issue Cannot start IIS 10 site on Windows 10 Pro. Following error message is displayed when trying to start the website: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)

After widespread criticism of unusually aggressive push to upgrade consumers to Windows 10, Microsoft decided that this was not enough and announced that very soon domain joined PCs will start “enjoying” similar notifications / adverts. In order to get these notifications, domain-joined PCs must meet following requirements: Be running Windows 7 Pro or Windows 8.1 Pro OS. Enterprise…