https://get-note.net/Recent content on Mario's IT NotesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 29 Dec 2022 16:00:40 +0200https://get-note.net/2022/12/29/just-a-test/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:00:40 +0200https://get-note.net/2022/12/29/just-a-test/This is just a simple post to test github actions. In this case a github action worklow will trigger on a push. Then build the site with Hugo and then deploy the site via sftp to my hosting provider.https://get-note.net/2021/06/02/winget/Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:00:40 +0200https://get-note.net/2021/06/02/winget/Linux based operating systems have always had a package manager for installing software. In Ubuntu you have Apt and Centos/Red Hat have Yum. For Windows there was no such thing. So if you want to install software you had to make your scripts, figure out how to do the silence installs, keep all the binaries up to date and make them available on a central location. Then a few years ago Chocolatey was born.https://get-note.net/2021/05/18/tips-for-using-openssl/Tue, 18 May 2021 11:31:42 +0200https://get-note.net/2021/05/18/tips-for-using-openssl/When you work at a hosting provider to have to deal with SSL certificates. We create our certificate signing request from a central Linux server. This means that when there is a certificate for a a website on a Windows server that I need to use OpenSSL to create a pfx file. Pfx files are needed to import the certificates and the private key in IIS for example. With OpenSSL it is easy to create a pfx file.https://get-note.net/2021/05/14/hello-hugo/Fri, 14 May 2021 16:11:15 +0200https://get-note.net/2021/05/14/hello-hugo/When I started this site I decided to continue using WordPress. The predecessor of this site was hosted by wordpress.com and is still available at https://danvers72.wordpress.com. But WordPress is just overkill for a website that has mostly static content. But WordPress itself needs some regular maintenance also. On a regular base you need to update your WordPress instance, the plugins that you are using, the themes you are using. And you really need to this to keep your website secure.https://get-note.net/about/Thu, 06 May 2021 16:23:33 +0200https://get-note.net/about/About me 2021 - present In August I joined Yoast BV as a DevOps Engineer. Which is very different then what I did before, but there are also some overlapping things. At Yoast I will be working mostly with Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, Jenkins and of course Wordpress and the Yoast SEO for Everyone plugin. 1996 - 2021 All round System Engineer based in the Netherlands working for InterNLnet.https://get-note.net/2019/01/18/use-powershell-to-find-ip-geolocation/Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:48:01 +0000https://get-note.net/2019/01/18/use-powershell-to-find-ip-geolocation/In log files from web servers you often find strange requests. For example requests for wp-login.php on server that don’t have PHP or WordPress installed. Or that someone is requesting the same page over and over. Most of the times this is not a real problem. But it gets a problem or at least annoying when you get hundreds or thousands of these requests from the same IP address. If I see things like that happening the first step is to find out where the request is coming from.https://get-note.net/2018/12/31/edit-firewall-rule-scope-with-powershell/Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:51:59 +0000https://get-note.net/2018/12/31/edit-firewall-rule-scope-with-powershell/One of our managed server customer frequently asked me to add an IP address to the scope of a firewall. Specially when they were still testing and did not want HTTP/HTTPS to be open for everyone. Recent versions of PowerShell have Cmdlets that you can use to manage firewall rules. To set the scope you can use Set-NetFirewallAddressFilter Cmdlet. You use it like this. Get-NetFirewallrule -DisplayName 'Test-Rule' | Get-NetFirewallAddressFilter | Set-NetFirewallAddressFilter -RemoteAddress 192.https://get-note.net/2018/12/27/disable-iis-server-headers/Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:07:12 +0000https://get-note.net/2018/12/27/disable-iis-server-headers/For security reasons some administrators want to hide what web server they are using. Personally I am not convinced that it would stop hackers to attack your server. But is is good practice to expose as little information as possible and security audits also require not to expose these pieces of information in the response headers. In this post I will show you how to disable some common and not so common headers in Windows Server 2016 and higher.https://get-note.net/2018/12/13/disable-powershell-beep-on-backspace/Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:41:23 +0000https://get-note.net/2018/12/13/disable-powershell-beep-on-backspace/One thing that I have found very annoying of the recent PowerShell versions is the beep that you hear when you press <BackSpace> and hit the beginning of the line. First I thought it was a setting in Windows 10 but I could not find it. And apparently that is the wrong place to look for it. The beep sound is actually provided by the PSReadLine module which is used by default and also gives us these time saving keyboard shortcuts.https://get-note.net/2018/12/12/powershell-shortcuts/Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:54:04 +0000https://get-note.net/2018/12/12/powershell-shortcuts/Unix Shells have many shortcuts that make life easier when using the shell. What people often forget is that de good old Command Prompt also had shortcuts. HowToGeek wrote a good article about it. You can find it here. Recent versions of PowerShell also have even more powerful keyboard shortcuts. This are implemented by the PSReadLine Module. This module is included with PowerShell 5 and higher. The documentation can be found here.https://get-note.net/notes/2018-11-27-new-site-new-start/Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:41:02 +0000https://get-note.net/notes/2018-11-27-new-site-new-start/I have been writing about IT stuff on and off on my blog danvers72.wordpress.com. Lately it has been mostly off because I was busy with other things. I used to use my old blog as a sort of notebook for myself so I could easily find things that I learned and were important enough to write down. Of course I have written down things I did not want to forget in a notebook, in my case I used One Note from Microsoft.