Sam's questions

I try to understand a strange behavior I've never seen before.

I have a site. HTTP hostname-binding on port 80 are configured. The site are accessible on HTTP.

When I add a HTTPS binding (tried bout SNI and without) I can access the site over HTTPS. But, when I try to access the site over HTTP I get an 307-redirect to HTTPS.

I have no IIS redirect rules or URL Rewrite rules added. Also If I change the HTTPS port to another port eg. 44300, the redirects from HTTP (port 80) updates to redirect to the non-standard-port configured.

Worth to not, it's a .NET Core site. Is there a chance the application can check the IIS bindings and then do a proper redirect here?

Thanks for all your clever ideas!

Edit:

I find a reference to: Microsoft.AspNetCore.HttpsPolicy in a json-file. I dont have the source code.

Also, if I clear the web-root and just add a static index.htm-file the magical redirect will not happen. So, something with the ASP.NET Core application, it seems to read the port number from the IIS configuration, which sounds wired to me.

Currently I have a Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V. I have a cupule of VMs. One are running Ubuntu with Docker CE and a Nginx container. This is a nested virtualization.

Is it a way to move the Nginx application up a level, and run Docker CE on the Windows Server host? Or is it just possible to run Windows containers at the host? Have seen some old info about Docker EE can run Linux, but have not found a clear information. Also, mySQL seems to be ok, but it can run natively on Windows...

I have found some old threads regarding this, but they seems to be some years old. E.g. openVPN - Split-tunneling DNS priority

I'm on Windows.
I'm connected to a local network with local DNS.
I use OpenVPN to connect to another network, this network have resources available at *.example.com.

Is it even possible to have one DNS for *.example.com and another for everything else? I know I can setup a local DNS on my machine to solve it, or enter all the hostnames of example.com in my local hosts-file.

In my lab environment I have a Windows Server 2016 acting as Hyper-V host. I would like to back up Hyper-V guests using Azure Backup Server.

I have followed the guide here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup In step 3.5 I select to backup Hyper-V Guests.

The server where Azure Backup Server are installed needs to be joined to a domain. My Hyper-V Server host isn't joined to a domain. I have no DC (but I can set up a new guest to act as DC and let the Backup Server be joined).

Will it be possible to backup the Hyper-V host outside the domain (it shall not be joined to the domain)?

I have a setup where I will run a Ubuntu Server on two VHDX disks. System 50GB and Data 4TB. They are located on a mirrored Storage Spaces Pool and are dynamic expanded.

During the Ubuntu installation the system disk got created on first VHDX as a EXT4 on a LVM pool.

My question is if its a good idea to use LVM on linux, or just simpel EXT4 on system and / or data-disk. Just a “mkfs”, file system creation of the Data-disk to EXT4 result in a 60GB expanded VHDX-file.

“mkfs -t ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/sdb1”

I created the machine before I read about the “VHDX Block Sizes”. So maybe thats a reason… http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/understanding-working-vhdx-files/

What are your thoughts? Regards, Sam

I have a Hyper-v 2nd gen Ubuntu machine (scsi). I did add the vhdx file to a 1st gen (ide) machine (not as start disk, but to try to use some system rescue cd tools to srink the vhdx zerrofill). I didnt have time to do the actions, so I just put the vhdx file back in the original machine. Then it didn't start up as expected. I was prompted with a grub menu with Ubuntu boot options, but none of the alternatives makes the machine to boot up.

How do I restore this?

Followed this steps: How can I compact the VHD file with Ubuntu? But didn't find zerrofill.

Starting Ubuntu Recovery mode gives this:

I have a Win 8.1 Workstation joinde in a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain (Essentials role). When trying to save Remote Desktop credentials I got this message.

Your system administrator does not allow the user of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer XXX because its identity is not fully verified. Please enter new credentials

Image:

I have found out it is related to some domain policy applied (as my question is very similar to this: Your system administrator does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer)

Where do I change this security setting in Windows Server 2012 R2?

How do I edit the .htaccess file in the folder www/owncloud/ to set: X-Robots-Tag to "noindex, nofollow" (Using header rather than robots.txt according to: https://yoast.com/x-robots-tag-play/)

Have tried this, but I cannot see the X-Robots-Tag set to anything other than: none in Chrome.

<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>

Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex,nofollow"

SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value upload_max_filesize 513M
php_value post_max_size 513M
php_value memory_limit 512M
php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
<IfModule env_module>
SetEnv htaccessWorking true
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .* - [env=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/host-meta /public.php?service=host-meta [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/host-meta\.json /public.php?service=host-meta-json [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/carddav /remote.php/carddav/ [R]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/caldav /remote.php/caldav/ [R]
RewriteRule ^apps/calendar/caldav\.php remote.php/caldav/ [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^apps/contacts/carddav\.php remote.php/carddav/ [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^remote/(.*) remote.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
AddEncoding gzip svgz
</IfModule>
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Options -Indexes
<IfModule pagespeed_module>
ModPagespeed Off
</IfModule>

Can anyone direct me what to look for to get a Router / Gateway / Firewall for my home-office enviroment to be able to run multiple e.g. Webserver on port 80, with one public ip. I know it can be done using Apache or IIS on a server-computer. A Cisco or Netgear router?

E.g.:

host1.example.com:80 -> 192.168.0.101

host2.example.com:80 -> 192.168.0.102

I have 2 disks (1TB + 1.5TB) in a Storage Space. Free space shows up as 2.27TB.

I create a new Virtual disk with Simple layout (no redundancy). Maximum size for the virtual disks stops at 1.82TB (seems to be the 2TB drive limiting). I can then also create a second virtual disk of the remaining size.

Why can't I create a 2.27TB disk, isn't that possible?