Tutorials/Guides

Printing from a Remote Desktop session on a Windows Server VPS is one of the most common support tickets in RDP environments — sessions show no printers, users see a generic “Microsoft Print to PDF” only, or the Redirection feature appears greyed out entirely. This guide explains how RDP printer redirection actually works (it does … Read more

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

Windows Server can run containers, but the rules are different from the Linux world most Docker documentation assumes. There are two completely separate runtimes with different kernels, two isolation modes with different compatibility guarantees, and a Windows Server host has no Docker Desktop — you install the engine directly. This guide covers what actually works … Read more

Group Policy is the feature that turns a Windows Server into centrally managed infrastructure rather than a file server with a domain bolted on. For a small business, the payoff is concrete: password rules enforced everywhere, mapped drives that appear without a helpdesk call, screen locks that satisfy an insurer, and printer deployment that survives … Read more

IIS is the one Windows Server role almost every hosted VM ends up running, and it is also the role people install by clicking through Server Manager and then never configure properly. This guide installs IIS from PowerShell, creates a dedicated application pool, publishes a site on a host header, opens the firewall correctly, and … Read more