November 2006 Archive on A Former Microsoft IIS PM

The sparkle of IISSuba...(oh, that is the IIS Sub Authenticator for those that don't know it)

IIS SubAuthentication - Magic? You bet it is... For many years, IIS administrators didn't have the first clue what the IIS sub-authenticator was more less how it worked. It wasn't until the security PM ( http://iisgeek.no-ip.com/ ) sat down and really...

Deploying applications via MSI to IIS Servers

I recently received from a IIS administrator a message which posed a very good question. He asked, I develop a ASP.Net application that I “zip” into a single .msi to deploy to a web application server. I have 2 websites defined, each using a unique host...

ASP.NET 2.0, 1.1 Sharing Environments: Careful with your web.configs

We recently got a pretty typical question around ASP.NET’s 2.0 release and its influence on IIS installations using ASP.NET 1.1. The first thing you will notice when you have a failure that is caused by mismatches… The question is: In testing ASP.NET...

Timeless Question about Installing IIS on a Non-System partition

A question was asked — Why does Microsoft still force customers to install as the webroot to the system partition (i.e. C:\inetpub) when all security-related documentation advises to not do this? I casually grinned, then openly smiled and said…”just because...

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 AND IIS 6.0: Host Headers and SSL

It was my desire to write a blog at 35,000 feet once I determined that internet was available on my flight from Seattle to Copenhagen last Saturday. It didn’t work out as it seems that we had too much “demand” for the internet and my connection was absolutely...

Tracing in IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP 1

On Thursday, July 14th, 2005 I admittingly hurried together a presentation termed “IIS 6.0 Tracing: Inside and Out.” However, I had everything put together just right to hit a home run in this webcast until “production” came about. No one out there ever...

IIS 6.0 Compression

They say that you can’t teach “old” dogs new tricks but that certainly is the oldest myth in the business. There are individuals out there that has been breathing IIS inside and out longer than I, but there aren’t many. You can’t deny the simple fact...

IIS Best Practices: From the field...

The field (Julian) dropped a best practice off that was directly from a customer. This is often the types of questions we get from customers and I kinda liked Julian's response...If there is no clear answer, shower them with options - right? We have a...

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