There’s a way to implement multiple self-signed certs on windows server, over many sites, using a shared IP; however, there’s a bit of a trick in doing this. The IIS6.0 toolkit contains something called SelfSSL, which is capable of creating self-signed certificates but there’s a catch. Its got a bug when it comes to using it for more than one site…
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I like many people were curious about the hype around the Windows 7 beta. So I downloaded my copy and loaded it up in a virtual machine and began beating it up. Ok right from the go my major beef with W7 is the changes they’ve made to the networking areas. I’m not a fan of the work they’ve done to Vista’s networking layout, and W7 I think might just be a bit worse from an administrators perspective.
The string value specified in the switch statement’s script block has to exactly match a condition for that condition to equal true. Despite it being unnecessary for exact matches, this would be the same as using the -exact option in a switch statement. There are other options available for use such as -wildcard which lets you use wildcards, and -regex which uses regular expressions. lets look at an example;
It’s the same old story every year: Linux will finally dominate Windows, Windows will finally kill off that pesky open-source Linux. My dad’s better than your dad; my mashed potatoes can beat-up your mashed potatoes. The truth simply is it’s not going to pan out like that. Linux will still dominate the server world and Windows will still dominate the desktop world (and if you think vista’s failing is a sign of Microsoft’s slipping, I kindly ask you to remember Windows ME followed by the popularity of XP). So what’s new to the battle front? Well, honestly, it’s not really ‘new’ it’s just what people are talking about these days. ‘Netbooks’. And I highly doubt it will be some epic battle of Good Vs. Evil, either. [Read more →]
PowerShell’s switch statement is similar to an if statement though easier to implement when you want to evaluate numerous conditions. You can use the switch statement to automate tasks such as retrieving System event log entries and performing actions based on the type of entry, and or moving and deleting files based on their file names.
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