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An ASP.NET application that allocates steadily until it is recycled on a schedule is not leaking by accident — it is usually hitting a limit that nobody tuned. IIS ships with private and virtual memory limits set to zero, meaning no limit at all, yet recycled pools and out-of-memory kills turn up in production because … Read more

A remote desktop session that drops after a fixed interval of inactivity is almost never a network fault. It is a policy — either a Group Policy timeout on the server, a session limit on a Remote Desktop Session Host, or a stateful firewall that forgets an idle TCP flow. Each cause leaves a different … Read more

A triage playbook for RDP failures: map the on-screen error to the exact event ID, then fix CredSSP encryption oracle, NLA mismatch, and expired self-signed certificate problems.

Size SQL Server 2025 max server memory on 8-16 GB Windows instances, decide on Lock Pages in Memory, and configure tempdb and buffer pool without starving IIS or the OS.

If you administer a small business Windows environment, you have probably inherited a folder full of logon scripts — a .bat that maps drives, a .vbs that copies a shortcut, and a third one nobody can explain. Group Policy Preferences (GPP) does all of that without scripts, with item-level targeting and built-in reporting. But GPP … Read more

The ASP.NET Core Hosting Bundle installs three things: the .NET runtime, the ASP.NET Core shared framework, and the AspNetCoreModuleV2 IIS module that reverse-proxies requests to the out-of-process Kestrel server. Most “it works locally but 500s on IIS” failures trace to one of those three being absent or mismatched. Install Order and Verification Install the bundle … Read more