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10 practical Windows articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.

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Publish a .NET worker as a Windows service using sc.exe or New-Service, configure recovery, and keep logs on High-Speed SSD disk after reboot.

Back up a Windows VPS from PowerShell and wbadmin: system state, selected files, and scheduled jobs you can restore without opening Server Manager.

Share a folder on a Windows VPS with SMB, then set NTFS ACLs so share permissions and file ACLs agree. Least privilege beats Everyone Full Control.

Control Windows Update and reboot policy on a production VPS so patch Tuesday does not take IIS or your live .NET service down in business hours.

Add inbound Windows Firewall rules without locking out RDP. Scope by remote IP, confirm with a second session, then drop the wide-open defaults.

Install IIS on Windows Server 2022, publish a static site, bind HTTPS with a certificate, and redirect HTTP so the origin is not leftover plaintext.

Inventory, patch, services, event logs, and scheduled tasks from PowerShell. These cmdlets cover day-2 Windows VPS work without opening the GUI.

Lock down Windows Server 2022 on a public IPv4: disable unused roles, enforce NLA, patch, and restrict admin ports before bots find the box.

Lock RDP to known IPs, require Network Level Auth, and tunnel when needed. A public 3389 listener is not a remote-admin plan for a Windows VPS.

Choose a Windows VPS when IIS, Active Directory, .NET Framework, or RDP admin is the job. This guide maps the real workload split versus Linux.