Janik von Rotz

Redirected subdomains to domain

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9433480.

Introduction

A website has to be only accessible by one specific host name. Otherwise search engines will index your website two or more times. A lot of people think that a website should only be published as www.[host]. I think this is wrong, using the www section is a old fashioned way of how companies have structured their DNS records. There are users which still use the www before tipping an url and others who don’t. However we will allow both of them to access our website.

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Update SharePoint Token Lifetime to update AD permissions faster

Since SharePoint 2013 only supports claim based authentication I discovered that updates in SharePoint Active Directory groups do not take effect immediately.

Thanks to Ryan McIntyre there’s a simple fix for that issue.

By adjusting the lifetime of the claims token you can shorten the time it takes to update the Active Directory group changes.

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Nginx SSL website

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9408793.

Introduction

This best practice shows you the most advanced SSL configurations for your Nginx website. For productive usage it’s recommended to use only public-signed certificates.

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Improve your next presentation with Less is More

The less is more approach is a simple improvement strategy for your next presentation. By simplifying the design and removing unnecessary formatting of tables of diagrams, they will be more easy to read and understand.

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Node.js Nginx proxy website

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9407504.

Introduction

It’s recommanded to publish a Node.js application with a Nginx proxy website.

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Nginx minimal website

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9408741.

Introduction

This is a minimal Nginx website configuration. It’s a good way to start your next project.

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SharePoint Export and Import Term Sets from Term Store

The SharePoint term store service is one of the most important parts of a SharePoint installation. It’s the best place to store an manage global metadata for your companies documents.

It’s not that hard to design a term set in Excel and import it afterwards with the built-in term store import wizard.

However there’s no tool or wizard that allows you to get a term set out of the term store.

It’s only possible with my PowerShell function (which is as always part of my PowerShell PowerUp project)

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Install Nginx

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9345486.

Introduction

Nginx (pronounced “engine-ex”) can be used as an open source reverse proxy server, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and not to forget a fast and powerful web server.

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O3M 34 - Run Baby Run (Electro)

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Install npm package forever

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9347463.

Introduction

A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever).

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