The Heartbleed Vulnerability is a serious SSL Bug that basically can allow a hacker to decrypt your SSL traffic. Network and Systems teams are racing to resolve vulnerabilites to their applications. I’ll focus on the impact to IIS hosted applications.

In some environments adding new virtual directories is a daily, if not hourly task. Automating this type of work is what we all prefer. Here’s some Powershell I’ve used recently to script IIS Virtual Directory setup. One thing about this script I like is it takes very little input, just the website name. The script pulls...

Anyone with a Windows 2008 Server over a year old has likely run into this problem. Your C:\ drive slowly runs out of space, when you check where all the space is going you find C:\Windows\WinSxS is using 10 – 20GB. I’m not going to go into what the folder is used for or why...

Here’s an easy way to grap minute by minute CPU Use in a query. This only goes back 4 hours, but can be useful for looking at load on your server.