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IIS Manager: Could not connect to the specified computer - Fix it Now ?
This article covers methods to resolve the IIS Manager error "Could not connect to the specified computer".
To install and configure Microsoft Windows Internet Information Services:
- Select: Manage / Add Roles and Features.
- Select "Next" until you get to Server Roles. Scroll down and open Web Server (IIS) / Management Tools.
- Select "Management Service".
- Select "Next" and "Install".
- Once installation completes, open services. If you already had services open, use refresh to add it to your list. Scroll down to Web Management Service. You will notice it is installed, but not started. It is also set to manual, so it will not start on reboot either. You need to change both of these so the service will run now and will run anytime the server is rebooted. Open the properties.
- Change the Startup type to "Automatic". Do not start the service yet as you will not be able to configure the service while it is running.
- Launch IIS, open Management Service.
- Configure the Web Management Service, then apply your changes and start the service.
How to configure Microsoft IIS ?
- Enable remote management.
- Use windows credentials only.
- Deny access to all except your approved IP addresses. Use IP address ranges only when you control the entire range.
- Use your server’s certificate if you have one configured. (Optional).
- Change the port from the default to something else if the server is accessible from the Internet. (Optional).
- Now you will be able to remotely manage IIS from any IP address you granted access.
Windows Cannot Find Microsoft Software License Terms - Fix it Now ?
This article covers methods to fix Windows error, Cannot Find Microsoft Software License Terms. Basically, this error happens when trying to perform a clean install of Windows Server 2016 on a new Hyper-V virtual machine. A common cause for Windows cannot find the Microsoft license software terms can be your BIOS. Sometimes certain BIOS settings can interfere with your system and prevent Windows from installing.
To fix this Windows issue, users are suggesting entering BIOS and restore the default settings.
This is fairly simple to do, but if you don't know how to do it properly, we advise you to check your motherboard manual for detailed instructions.
After restoring the default settings, try to install Windows again.
Another method to fix Windows cannot find the Microsoft license software terms message, is to,
Disconnect the installation media during the installation:
Follow the installation steps until you reach the Install Now screen.
Disconnect your installation media and click the Install Now button.
Continue the installation as you would do normally.
Once the setup is ready to start copying files, it will ask you to reconnect your installation media, so be sure to do so.
After you connect the installation media, follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.
Install Docker Swarm Cluster on Debian 10 -Step by Step Process ?
This article covers how to install Docker Swarm Cluster on Debian 10. Docker Swarm is a tool used to orchestrate docker hosts. We can create a high availability and a high performance Docker cluster with applications distributed among the hosts. Docker swam uses a manager host and worker nodes architecture. You can have one or several manager nodes in your docker swarm cluster. The manager nodes uses the native Docker API and share the database of the Docker Swarm cluster with the worker nodes. The manager hosts maintain the cluster state, schedule tasks and handle the HTTP API endpoints.
Digitalocean err_connection_refused - Fix it Now ?
This article covers methods to resolve DigitalOcean error. SSH service uses sshd daemon to listen to the incoming connections and handles user authentication, terminal connections, and many more. If this service crashes, the connection fails, and results in SSH Connection refused error in DigitalOcean servers.
To fix this error, start by identifying and researching on the root cause of service failures.
The reasons can be traffic impales, disk errors, resource breakdowns, DDoS attacks, and many more.
Sometimes the backend service fails or doesn't respond.
In this case, we kill the dead process and restart the service.
For example, In CentOS 7 droplet, we restart the SSH service using the below command:
$ systemctl restart sshd
Enable Memcached Support In Nagios - How to do it ?
This article covers how to enable Memcached for our customers. You can setup one or more memcached servers (hosts) for use by Nagios XI.
Each memcached host must have its firewall configured to allow traffic on TCP port 11211 to allow Nagios
XI to contact the memcached server.
To create the firewall rules, run the commands:
$ ufw allow proto tcp from any to any port 11211
$ ufw reload
Enable ABE on Windows Server - How to do it ?
This article covers how to Enable ABE on Windows Server. By default, when a user opens some shared network folder, SMB displays a full list of files and folders on it. Of course, it happens only if the user has permission to access the share. Access Based Enumeration (ABE) allows hiding the specific files and folders for a user who don’t have access permission.
Access Based Enumeration is available on the Windows platform since Windows Server 2003 SP1, and helps to prevent users from seeing files and folders.
ABE is enabled for each folder individually. To configure ABE, open Server Manager console, and select role File and Storage Services.
Main ABE features:
1. ABE controls only the list of the contents in a shared folder. It does not hide the list of shared folders from the users. Therefore, when a user connects to the server, he will see all shared folders. If you need to create a hidden share, you can simply add the character $ to its name, for example, ShareName$;
2. ABE doesn't work when the user logged locally or when connecting via RDP;
3. Members of the local Administrators group always see the full list of the folder contents.
