Often, even if you are logged on as a user which belongs to the local Administrators group, you may have to open a command prompt (or other program) as “administrator.” Simply right-click the shortcut (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt) and select Run As Administrator. Applies to: Windows 7 Windows 2008 Windows Vista
Category: Windows 2008
Restarting IIS using the command-line
You can restart IIS and disable Reliable Restart using the command prompt and Iisreset.exe. See the following command-line usage and parameters. iisreset [computername] /RESTART Stop and then restart all Internet services./START Start all Internet services./STOP Stop all Internet services./REBOOT Reboot the computer./REBOOTONERROR Reboot the computer if an error occurs when starting, stopping, or restarting Internet […]
Find Last Reboot Time in Windows 7, Vista and Windows 2008
Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to know how long your Windows 7 (or Vista or Windows 2008 server) system has been running? When it was last restarted or rebooted? There are a few easy ways this can be done, most from the Windows command line. So open a Windows command prompt […]
Windows 2008 Server on Amazon’s EC2 – a First Look
Within a couple hours of Amazon’s announcement of the availability of Windows 2008 machine images (AMI’s) on their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform a few days ago I had to give it a try – see my previous post, “Amazon EC2 Now Offers Windows Server 2008 – Finally!” I used RightScale to locate and launch […]
Securely delete files in Windows
The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. Secure delete applications overwrite a deleted file’s on-disk data using techiques that are shown to make disk data unrecoverable, even using recovery technology that can read patterns […]
Amazon EC2 Now Offers Windows Server 2008 – Finally!
I opened my email this morning and much to my pleasure I found this announcement from Amazon: Amazon EC2 Now Offers Windows Server 2008 Starting today, Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server® Standard 2008 instances in all Amazon EC2 Regions. This new announcement extends Amazon EC2’s existing Microsoft-based offerings […]
Install Windows Server 2008 Features with servermanagercmd.exe at the Command Prompt
Although Microsoft continues to expand PowerShell with more capability, the command prompt has not been left behind in Windows Server 2008. In fact, with this latest Windows Server release, the command prompt gains some capability, including a tool that allows administrators to add or remove features on a Windows Server 2008 installation with servermanagercmd.exe, which replicates […]
Manage Windows 2008 Licenses with slmgr.vbs from the command line
Windows 2008 Servers supports license management from the command line, using slmgr.vbs. With it you can see how much time you have left on an eval, add or uninstall licenses and much more. The name of the tool is actually Windows Software Licensing Management Tool. It is a visual basic script used to configure licensing on any Windows 2008 […]
IIS 7 Log Files Default Location
In Internet Information Services 7 Microsoft changed the default log files location. IIS 7 Log files location %SystemDrive%inetpublogsLogFiles IIS 6 Log files location %windir%System32LogFiles
How to Install and Configure IIS 7 FTP Publishing Service
The new FTP Publishing Service 7.5 has been rewritten for Windows Server 2008 and lot of new futures and additions included. (Integration with IIS 7, FTP over SSL (from v7.0), Improved Logging, etc..) Prerequisites1. Internet Information Services 7.0 installed.2. Windows Server 2008 or Vista.3. Download FTP Publishing Service 7.5 Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS […]