Here we’ll show you how to install the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2016 with PowerShell and then configure basic server backups.
We’ll also take a quick look at how the backup files are stored and see if they are at all encrypted or not.
Cloudflare is a freely available service that offers CDN and caching functionality. In order to use Cloudflare a domains DNS will be updated to send all traffic through Cloudflare, as a result it will hide the IP address of the actual web server where the website is hosted in order to provide various protections.
By doing this, Cloudflare essentially hides the real IP address of the web server that is hosting the website. There are many times that we may wish to be able to find the actual IP address of a server behind Cloudflare, such as during a penetration test you may want to bypass the web application firewall (WAF) completely by directly targeting the server itself.
The simple methods outlined here will show you how to find the real IP address of a website that is hidden behind Cloudflare. First we’ll cover the manual methods that can be used so that you understand what is going on before looking at automated options. Along the way we provide mitigations that can be used in order to protect yourself from these methods.
This post will show you where the .evtx log files can be found in Windows Server 2016, as well as how they can be viewed with Event Viewer.
In this example we shrink the file system of a volume in Windows Server 2016, freeing up space which can be used to create a new partition, or otherwise further decrease the size of the virtual disk to reclaim the space assuming the hypervisor supports this action.
Here we’re going to show you how to mount an NFS file share in Windows Server 2016 both temporarily and persistently so that it will automatically mount after a reboot.
There are a couple of different ways this can be done, including mapping a network drive or adding a network location, which we’ll discuss here.
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled and running in enforcing mode by default in CentOS/RHEL based Linux operating systems, and with good reason as it increases overall system security.
Despite this there may be times when you want to temporarily or permanently disable SELinux, which is what we’ll cover here.
There are many different ways we can shutdown Windows Server 2016, in this quick guide we’ll demonstrate how to perform a power off through the graphical user interface, with command prompt, PowerShell, or even remotely.
This post will cover how to increase the disk space for a Windows Server 2016 virtual machine running in VMware, however the steps apply to any virtualization solution.
First we’ll increase the size of the actual virtual disk that is attached to the virtual machine, followed by making the required changes in the operating system in order to take advantage of the additional space from the hard disk expansion.
The server can stay online while the disk space is upgraded with this method which is ideal for most production servers, there’s no need to perform a system reboot.
There are many different ways we can restart Windows Server 2016, in this quick guide we’ll demonstrate how to perform a reboot through the graphical user interface, with command prompt, PowerShell, or even remotely.
Normally resetting the root password is a simple task if you’re logged in already with root privileges, however if you forget the password and need to change it things become a little more difficult.
The process has changed from CentOS/RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) version 6 to 7, as previously you would boot into single user mode and then change the password as root. From version 7 the equivalent modes are the rescue or emergency targets, however these require the root password before you can do anything which doesn’t help us here, so we’ll take you through the new process to change the lost root password.
This is also a task that you will need to know how to perform for the RHCSA exam.