Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a runaway process performing the abuse)? Well, it takes a little effort but it is possible to track down the username being used to […]
Creating AD users in bulk with PowerShell
Terri, a support specialist at OrcsWeb who guest posts here on my site, and who has the 2nd most popular post here, wrote up a nice little post about creating Active Directory (AD) users in bulk easily via PowerShell. If you’re interested in user management or PowerShell in general, go check it out: http://terrid.me/creating-ad-users-in-bulk-with-powershell/ Happy […]
Hosting, PowerShell, System AdministrationChange the WordPress Domain Name After Moving a Site
If you’ve recently changed domain names, or made a copy of the site (for testing, development, or any other purpose) then you need to update the domain setting in WordPress. If you don’t, then all links will point back to the old/original domain name and take you away from the new site. You may also […]
cytanium, Hosting, PHP, WordpressUpdate Your WordPress Database Connection String
I recently decided to create a test/development instance of a WordPress site that I run. In part of doing this I had to deal with how to backup one MySQL database and restore it to another database. After that was done, and I copied over the content files, I had to tell WordPress where to […]
cytanium, Hosting, MySQL, System Administration, WordpressRestore MySQL Dump File to a Different Database Name
Today I had to take a MySQL database backup from one database and then restore it to a different database name (for development/testing purposes). I tried a number of different tricks that I found online through Google without any success. The issue was that the user I was using to restore the data was NOT […]
cytanium, Hosting, MySQL, tipPUT/POST/DELETE Verb Errors On Site
A client was getting errors when using PUT/POST/DELETE verbs on their web application recently. The errors he was seeing were: After some troubleshooting the error was isolated to the fact that WebDav was installed on the server and was intercepting those requests for its own service use. Rather than removing WebDav from the server, we […]
ASP.NET, cytanium, Development/Coding, Hosting, IIS, OrcsWeb, System AdministrationConfiguring Microsoft’s SMTP Service to allow relay
My recent post on Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008 helps people get up-and-running with a local SMTP service to support the sending of emails from code (i.e.: C# Sample For Sending Emails). Just getting the SMTP service running though is only the first step – the default installation actually WON’T […]
Hosting, IIS, server, smtpInstalling the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008
The most popular blog post on my site is how to send email to ASP.NET (C# code sample). It seems that a recurring question/comment on that post though is from people with issues with the code being rejected when trying to relay email through “localhost” (an assumed running local SMTP service). So, here’s a post […]
Hosting, IIS, server, smtpWordPress: Redirect One Domain to Another
I have multiple domains pointed to certain WordPress installations that I run. Some people have setups like this and run multiple sites in their WP install. I, on the other hand though, wanted to redirect all requests for certain domains to a single domain. Basically consolidating the domains so the users all wind up on […]
cytanium, Hosting, WordpressSetting up SSL in IIS7
Obtaining an SSL certificate for your website is a task that every IIS administrator will have to perform at some point in time. This can be a confusing process the first time you have to do this. IIS7 has changed the way that certificates are requested. In the IIS6 days, you requested a certificate from […]
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