IIS

If you want to learn how to generate an IIS certificate request, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’m going to cover how I did this with PowerShell and also how to bind a certificate to an IIS website. Let’s get one thing straight. I hate cryptography and certificates. Over my career, I’ve been the “certificate guy” on a few occasions. However, it was just another hat for a system administrator. I never got to the point…

Need to keep an eye on your IIS web server app pools? Here’s a guide on how to create application pool in iis with PowerShell. Where do you turn when you’re managing an IIS web server farm with potentially dozens or hundreds of app pools? PowerShell scripts, of course! By using the WebAdministrationPowerShell module that comes installed as part of IIS and a little PowerShell remoting you can easily create, modify and remove app pools at will. Let’s go through…

Microsoft IIS can serve the role of an SMTP quite nicely but requires quite a few steps to get set up. Lucky for you, I’ve set up an IIS SMTP relay server and documented all of the steps! In this article, we will cover all of the steps needed to successfully set up an SMTP relay server to send an outgoing email with Office 365. Technically, we will use this SMTP relay to relay email to Office 365; it can…

You’ve built an application or perhaps even a set of important scripts and need to package it up and deploy it. Look no further than NuGet and the various NuGet package manager you have available. In this article, you’re going to learn how to get various NuGet package managers set up for the first time so you can start using them immediately. Related: Setting up NuGet Server on Windows (Complete Walkthrough) Setting up a NuGet.Server Wrapper While setting up a…

If you manage Windows Servers, you’ve likely worked with Internet Information Services (IIS). Websites are one of IIS’s main features and, using PowerShell, you can easily manage and automate IIS with PowerShell IIS scripts! In this article, you’ll be introduced to a new way to manage IIS using PowerShell. Using the techniques in this article, you can easily build PowerShell IIS scripts to create and manage IIS websites. To manage IIS with PowerShell requires one of two PowerShell modules –…

Websites are the most common type of internet content today. But to ensure that your website is visible to the widest possible audience, you’ll need to host your website on a web server. How? Consider turning to Windows Internet Information Services (Windows IIS), a popular choice for web hosting. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of getting started with Windows IIS for web application management via the GUI or command-line environment! Read on and level up your manage your…