Oct 02, 2009
With the recent release of the Web Deployment Tool , we made it super easy to export a server configuration, or an application configuration (by using the IIS Manager UI and using the "Export Server Package..." or "Export Application..." actions items...
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Aug 28, 2009
Following up on my last two blogs, we continue to notice that folks have difficulty properly configuring IIS in a secure manner, because they tend to over-open the security of their system, giving privileges to both the "request identity" and the "process...
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Tags: Securityprocess model
Aug 12, 2009
Over the versions of IIS, we have changed our process model in some ways with each release. Each of those changes required administrators to change the way they set up permissions for "code" to run properly on IIS. It also requires application developers...
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Tags: Tips and Tricksauthenticationprocess model
Aug 12, 2009
Many questions that we get on the forum's are around which users need which permissions for what resources ... isn't that how life goes? :) Anyways, to make this more complicated, we have changed "who" the "anonymous" user is in different versions of...
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Tags: Tips and Tricksanonymous userauthentication
Jul 14, 2009
As we write walkthrough's on how to do various things with Web Deploy or other tools, we often say to try this or that with gacutil.exe but I always forget where the tool lives. Since I re-image test machines all the time with various things installed...
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Tags: gacutilassembly
Jun 29, 2009
A lot of folks ask us how to "download" IIS; since other web server offerings are available for download on a multiple of platforms, it's an obvious question for the Microsoft web platform stack as well. Well, IIS has historically shipped as part of each...
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Tags: setupinstalldownload
Jun 18, 2009
So I've done some recent testing on Compression and in the process I thought I should write up a short blog on how to configure adding new scheme's to compression as well as configuring the compressionLevel for each scheme. (I assume that static and dynamic...
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Tags: Configcompression
Sep 05, 2008
A lot has changed in the IIS7 UI from IIS6, sometimes it can be hard to find out where to set certain things such as the execute permission for CGI's and ISAPI's. Yesterday, I was trying to get a CGI to execute, but couldn't find where to set it. In IIS7...
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Tags: UITips and TricksIIS7
Nov 21, 2007
Ok, now I want to do something in my managed module during runtime that will only read from my custom configuration properties. I need someplace to start ... like a starter kit! :) http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1302&g=6...
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Tags: IIS7ConfigManaged Code
Nov 21, 2007
Following on my last post in developing my module for app-building week, I want to talk about how I wrote the code for my managed module (C# code). So far, I have custom configuration schema that could be accessed through various built-in tools and I...
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Tags: IIS7Config
Oct 31, 2007
Let's see if I can get 2 blog posts written in the same month! :) As I was talking last post, our team had an app-building week (everyone will see the results over the next couple months; there were some VERY cool tools that I'm excited for people to...
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Tags: IIS7SchemaConfig
Oct 05, 2007
For the next week, I hope to produce a couple of blogs about my journey through the land of developing a managed module for IIS7. Being a test lead on the team, I rarely have time to get my hands dirty with the product at the level of developing modules...
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Tags: FREBXSLTips and Tricks
Feb 13, 2007
In the IIS7 UI, which is the first IIS UI that anyone can actually say "looks beautiful" ... has had a bit of a learning curve for me. I keep forgetting about the "Task Pane", sometimes called the "Action Pane" which is on the right side of the window...
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Tags: UITask Pane
Dec 13, 2006
Some people were asking me about webdav in IIS for Vista ... and you're right it's not there. But check out Keith Moore's blog on the future of webdav with IIS (I was impressed). Keith's background is somewhat legendary on the team and so I have high...
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Tags: DAV
Sep 05, 2006
Recently we started an effort to again look at the centralized content and configuration story and see where we can improve for IIS7. It was a bit amazing to me that some people had not yet read the whitepaper from Brett Hill and myself on remote content...
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Tags: shared contentUNC