In this post, we’re going to take a close look at IIS (Internet Information Services). We’ll look at what it does and how it works. You’ll learn how to enable it on Windows. And after we’ve established a baseline with managing IIS using the GUI, you’ll see how to work with it using the CLI. Let’s get started!

As IT professionals and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), understanding and controlling system features is a part of the job. Fast Startup (also known as Hiberboot or Fast Boot) in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, while generally beneficial, may sometimes require to be turned off. In this post, we delve into what Fast Startup is, its implications, how to disable it manually or via PowerShell, and the differences between Fast Startup and Hibernation.

Scaling to collect Windows Event logs with the Windows Event Forwarding Source can be tricky. Luckily, you can use a load balancer, and with some math to scale the number of workers to collect the amount of data you expect, you can use workers to collect Windows logs from a large number of endpoints. Endpoint logs are the lifeblood of observability in an incident response program.

At a recent event, I found myself talking to a lot of MSPs about patching and upgrading to Windows 11. So, I thought it would be a good idea to look at this subject in more depth in a blog. We tend to see our MSP partners and their SMB/SME customers fall into two distinct and opposing camps on this: Over the past six months, Microsoft has been making a huge push towards shifting everyone to Windows 11—even by force if necessary.

In today’s digital world, where data is considered the new oil, organizations are consistently looking for efficient ways to store and manage their invaluable information assets. Microsoft’s Azure Files and Windows Server are two technologies at the forefront of this technological evolution.

Collecting and processing logs, metrics, and application data from endpoints have caused many ITOps and SecOps engineers to go gray sooner than they would have liked. Delivering observability data to its proper destination from Linux and Windows machines, apps, or microservices is way more difficult than it needs to be. We created Cribl Edge to save the rest of that beautiful head of hair of yours.

The modern workplace demands hybrid working, robust security, and enhanced user experience features. All these interactions rely heavily on the Operating System (OS) and associated software stacks. The sheer scale of migrating tens of thousands of remote devices and their users to a new OS can lead to potential technical failures, delays in migration roadmap and budget overruns. OS migration can be a daunting task for organizations, as it is plagued by uncertainities.