We have just released a non-security update that allows administrators of IIS websites that use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) to protect against credential relaying. The feature is called “Extended Protection” and needs to be applied at multiple...

In this post I am going to talk about basic tools you will need as well as basic steps which will enable you to start debugging WINCACHE. I will talk about a way to debug WINCACHE running in both PHP CLI as well as CGI version. I am planning to write...

On Thursday, December 10 th , 2009, please join me for a free live Web broadcast on ways to use new and existing media technologies to solve video delivery challenges in the enterprise. If you are considering how to deploy high-quality live and on-demand...

At least some of us on the IIS team are starting to get up to speed with twitter ... it's a fascinating way to interact in a very public way with other folks in a massive stream of consciousness. As a test lead on the team, I find it a great way to find...

Using Wincache and Application Warm-Up together can allow you to create a cache for your PHP web applications before any request arrives. This will enable you to not only have scheduled server recycles without any downtime, but will also save you the...

The IIS 7 manager provides a UI for almost all sections for the web.config. It does simplify things for administrators but I have seen a couple of cases where this has lead to interesting problems. Let us consider the Machine Key feature that the IIS...

Question: Hello, I am pretty new to IIS 7. I have just recently started working on IIS 7 test boxes at my office. I installed default IIS 7 and was very happy but I think I have missed something as I am not able to find the IIS Admin Service. However...

One little known feature of IIS7 is that it's UI is entirely extensible! This means that anyone can write a C# assembly and get it displayed through the IIS Manager UI. The possibilities here are endless, anything from someone writing a new certificate...

I recently came across this problem when I was attempting to create a setup project for one of my applications... I say attempting because I am not a developer but I like to amuse myself sometimes with some code here and there... So I have Visual Studio...

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on November 18th, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie announced support for adaptive streaming to the iPhone from the next release of IIS Media Services . Here are some Frequently...

Consider this a 2nd part to IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www .  Reader Rubens asked about redirecting multiple domain names in a single rule.  That’s a good question and worth writing a part II blog post about it. Here’s his question...

Following is the environment with exchange OWA setup in FE/BE. E2k3 - BE Cluster E2k3 - FE Server E2k7 - CAS server (Windows 2008 - IIS 7.0) Problem: ======= OWA spell check works fine when OWA is accessed on the BE server and via the E2k3-FE server....

A majority of my geek time is spent at work, like most people. It's hard to keep up on technology coming out of Redmond. In past years, I would subscribe to several 'list-servs' on various content, then review the data when I had some extra time. It was...

A few months ago I wrote a blog post that was titled " Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs - Part 2 ", where I described how to merge my FTP Dynamic IP Restrictions Authentication Provider walkthrough with my FTP Provider that Sends an Email when Files are Uploaded walkthrough. The result of this code combination was a custom FTP authentication provider that provides support for dynamic IP restrictions that sends me an email every time a new IP address is blocked. I deployed this custom FTP authentication provider on one of my public-facing FTP sites when I wrote the blog post, and in the three months that I have been using that provider it has blocked 88 IP addresses. Recently it seems that every day I receive a new email that another IP...

If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using. One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com.  Many people are doing this for search engine optimization...