Sep 05, 2006
Introduction The one thing that makes me proudest is the release of tool called ssl diagnostics 1.0. I recently reliazed that there were 100’s of customer’s of Microsoft didn’t realize we released these tools. For the most part, I am...
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Sep 01, 2006
The past few days, I have noticed a trend whereby users are suddenly re-invigorated to determine if IIS is installed on their system(s). This, I hope, is because of the solid reputation that IIS 6.0 has for being a strong, robust, Enterprise-ready web...
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Aug 30, 2006
Can one recycle an application from a script in IIS 6.0? We (MS) certainly improved our story around ensuring reliablity and performance with the release of IIS 6.0. IIS 6.0 has had numerous positive comments around the process archictecture and also...
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Aug 29, 2006
Microsoft added “auditing” for the IIS Configuration file Metabase.xml It was a service pack release hence it doesn’t have the flare of the RTM release and hence often features get missed. I have been attending a lot of conferences the past few weeks...
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Aug 22, 2006
The most valuable friend to an IT Professional or Developer who uses IIS is a little-bitty check-mark field that is not enabled by default. This field is the red-headed stepchild of logging but one that plays so many friendly tunes for you to determine...
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Aug 21, 2006
Last year, I did a presentation in the IIS Webcast Series called “ Disaster Recovery and IIS 6.0: Metabase backups in a Nutshell. ” The main reason I put that webcast together is to ensure that customers had prescriptive guidance on the “what” &...
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Aug 18, 2006
Script this, or script that...That is the latest buzz in my world. This could be because I scripted this & that in my some webcasts to demonstrate how to do some cool things with certain administrative tasks in IIS. If you are are up and running on...
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Aug 15, 2006
We recently was asked the following question: I am sort of new to editing the metabase in IIS 6.0, I am currently experiencing an issue with my default documents. I have added two files (index.html, index.php) to the defaultdoc attribute by selecting...
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Aug 14, 2006
As I continue my series of discussions around what is new in Service Pack 1 for IIS users, I want to touch on a pretty cool feature that many large installations of IIS 6.0 can take advantage almost immediately. HTTP.sys, the kernel driver responsible...
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Aug 09, 2006
With the fireworks blasting, and lawns a watering, I sit here admiring all the simple things in life. Learning IIS isn't one of them.... It is called Internet Information Services. I have spent the past 4 years concentrating my life on trying to understand...
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Aug 05, 2006
Wade Hilmo called it courageous, I called it useful ... Last week I delivered a presentation on CGI vs ISAPI and I “learned while on the job” ...In front of a webcast audience of about 50 people, I was showing what the capabilities of ISAPI filters are...
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Aug 02, 2006
I recently received from a customer the following question: Hi Chris, I am trying to debug a problem I had this morning with IIS 6.0 Basically it was dynamically adding an IP address to the list of blocked IP addresses. This IP address was actually our...
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Jul 31, 2006
Recently, a IIS customer was attempting to use the IIsCertDeploy utility that is part of the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools to backup certificates across their enterprise. In their case, they were attempting to connect remotely to the server via script and...
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Jul 31, 2006
Hey all~ Recently, a question was asked here to the Microsoft IIS experts that I found to be pretty darn interesting. That is to say, "I didn't know that..." The question was related to enabling FIPS support for use with IIS 6.0 & SSL which is a corner...
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Jul 19, 2006
Introduction Reality sat in when I, along with Wade Hilmo & Alexis Eller, headed to Europe for the first ever IIS tour. The Web Administration Summit hit 10 countries in just about 4 to 5 weeks and was a absolute awesome experience, with a privilege...
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