How to Configure a WCF Service on Windows Server 2022 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the .NET Framework’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications that communicate over a variety of protocols and transport mechanisms. While newer workloads often use ASP.NET Core Web API or gRPC, a large installed base of enterprise systems — financial […]
🟠 High ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 24 February 2023 Affected versions: Windows Server 2022 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]
Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up register a github actions self-hosted runner on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 23 February 2023 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~2 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]
Introduction to Web Deploy on Windows Server 2022 Web Deploy (msdeploy.exe) is Microsoft’s deployment tool for synchronizing web applications, databases, and server configurations between machines. It integrates with IIS, Visual Studio, and CI/CD pipelines to enable one-command deployments that transfer only changed files, transform configuration, and execute pre/post-deployment scripts. This guide covers every component from […]
How to Set Up Windows Server 2012 R2 as a DSC Node Once a DSC Pull Server is operational, the next step is configuring managed nodes to pull their configurations automatically. Each managed server runs a Local Configuration Manager (LCM) — the DSC engine built into PowerShell — that handles pulling configurations, applying them, and […]
How to Set Up Database Mail in SQL Server on Windows Server 2022 Database Mail is SQL Server’s built-in SMTP mail subsystem, enabling the database engine and SQL Server Agent to send email notifications directly without requiring an external mail client. On Windows Server 2022 with SQL Server 2019 or 2022, Database Mail is the […]
Envoy is a high-performance, cloud-native L4/L7 proxy designed for service mesh architectures and API gateway deployments. Originally built by Lyft, it is the data plane of Istio and is used by organisations running microservices on Kubernetes and bare metal alike. Unlike Nginx or HAProxy, Envoy is designed to run as a sidecar alongside each service, […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 19 February 2023 Affected versions: Windows Server 2022 📖 ~2 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]
Introduction to Network Policy Server Network Policy Server (NPS) is Microsoft’s implementation of a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) server and RADIUS proxy. It is included in Windows Server 2022 at no additional cost and provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting for network access scenarios including VPN, 802.1X wired and wireless, and dial-up. NPS […]
