Nov 01, 2010
Three types of user identities are typically involved during the HTTP request processing inside the IIS worker process (IIS 7.0, IIS 7.5) Worker Process User (will abbreviate as: WP_USER ) Authenticated User for Http request (will abbreviate as: AUTH_USER...
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Jun 01, 2009
FTP 7 and SSL Client Certificate Support One of the little known features of FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 is their support for SSL client certificates. There is no GUI support to configure client certificates for FTP. That makes the feature hard to discover. But...
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Apr 16, 2009
FTP 7.0 introduced support for virtual host names as documented in the article http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/320/using-ftp-virtual-host-names/ . Because of variety of compatibility challenges, the decision was made to use the pipe sign “|”...
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Apr 15, 2009
FTP 7 includes few features that are not commonly known or used. One of them is a support for block mode transfers. Block mode transfers One of the deficiencies of FTP protocol is the need to maintain secondary TCP connection (data channel). Most...
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Dec 19, 2008
Recently I investigated an IIS issue. As part of my investigation I had to analyze W3 logs. While doing so, I realized that IIS 7.0 introduced so many sub-status codes that I was not able to reinterpret them in my head any more. Luckily, I recalled...
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Sep 29, 2007
Objective This post is the first one from the mini-series on firewall configuration for FTP7 (full product name: Microsoft FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0) . The goal of this post if to provide instructions on how to setup local Windows Firewall to...
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Tags: FTP7 firewall
Jun 13, 2007
FTP7 Beta administrative tool doesn't include information about currently executing Ftp sessions. The FTP7 runtime session information is exposed through the IIS7 config API extensibility but the information I know there are administators out there wondering...
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Tags: samplescriptFTP7FTP
Jun 13, 2007
Few people asked me how to programatically create FTP 7 site. FTP 7 doesn't use the IIS metabase to store the site information. Instead, it uses the new configuration store that comes with IIS7. The following jscript function uses "Microsoft.ApplicationHost...
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Tags: samplescriptFTP7FTP