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IIS7 – Enabling Custom Error Pages by rakkimk

As the title sounds, here I’m going to discuss a very simple feature of IIS7 which has one additional step to keep in mind compared to that you do in the previous versions of IIS (5, 5.1, 6). Let’s take an example of configuring a redirect for a page...
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AppCmd syntax to add FTP IpV4 Address and Domain Restrictions by rakkimk

I just helped one of my customer writing a script which would add FTP IpV4 Address and Domain Restrictions into the applicationHost.config file. “Configuration Editor” came handy to nail this command. I would say, anybody and everybody wanted to play...
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IIS – Rejecting a request from a specific client type(browser) | ISAPI Filter Example by rakkimk

Recently I’ve come across a discussion where a particular type of client request should be blocked. Say for an example, you need to block requests from a client called “TrustMe”; consider a scenario where you need to serve pages only for Internet Explorer...
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IIS7 – Adding your UI extension to the IIS manager hierarchy by rakkimk

In the last post I was talking about writing a simple UI extension which would appear like below: How about you adding this to the IIS manager hierarchy – just below “Application Pools” and “FTP Sites”? Here is what you need to do additional to the steps...
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IIS7 - Writing your first custom UI module with all winform controls by rakkimk

You should follow this article on IIS.net to create your first “simple” IIS7 UI extension which would just display a message box when loaded. In this blog, I’m going to explain you how you could design a UI module where you can add any UI control that...
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IIS7 – Prevent the server sending its private IP address for a request made by HTTP/1.0 clients with no host header by rakkimk

Do you remember this problem earlier with IIS sending the server’s private address for a request made for a non host-header site in its headers? You were setting UseHostName or SetHostName property in the metabase to stop the server sending the private...
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Getting "Unable to step. The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed" while debugging in Visual Studio by rakkimk

Problem Description Getting below error messages while debugging an ASP.NET website in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 when stepping through, getting "Unable to step. The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed" After clicking OK on the dialog...
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IIS7 - Command line tool (managed) to set FTP properties in Active Directory by rakkimk

You would have already seen this UI module of mine to set the FTP properties in Active Directory. With IISFtp.vbs not working on WS2008 or Vista, this would be very handy tool to use the FTP AD user isolation. You can very well set the required properties...
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IIS - Sample ISAPI Filter doing Redirection to another website by rakkimk

I know I'm in a very old world of writing ISAPI Filters to do the redirection instead of just creating an IHttpModule and plug it directly in the IIS7 request pipeline. But, one of my customer wanted this ISAPI filter and I made a fairly simple ISAPI...
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How to configure IIS 7.0 for ODBC logging? by rakkimk

If you select Log File format as “Custom” in the IIS manager, it doesn’t give you options to configure ODBC logging in the UI. Instead, it just gives you an alert saying it cannot be configured through IIS manager which you already know...
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ASP.NET - Using the same encryption method used by ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider to encrypt secret password answer and store it in AD by rakkimk

Okay, this is an interesting stuff. MembershipProvider automatically encrypts most of the sensitive information such as password, secret-question-password. What if you want to use the same encryption method yourself to encrypt data? Before continuing...
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ASP.NET - Enabling PasswordReset functionality when using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider by rakkimk

If you want to use ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider on your website to manage users specially the password reset functionality, you will also need to create few attributes in the active directory schema for the "USER" object. You can check this MSDN...
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IIS7 - Configure Throttling for your documents (any MIME type) and save Bandwidth costs by rakkimk

Do you have a high traffic site where you have a lot of WMV/AVI/FLV/PDF documents (or any other MIME type) where your maximum bandwidth of the site is utilized? Do you ever think where majority of the bandwidth would go? Most of the users do not completely...
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IIS7 - Administration Pack - technical preview released by rakkimk

Here are the links to download the new IIS7 admin pack - technical preview version: Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 (x86) Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 (x64) This comes with a lot of features which would make life simpler for the web administrators...
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IIS7 - Running ASP.NET 1.1 applications by rakkimk

There a lot of other articles available in iis.net which explains how to run an ASP.NET application on IIS7. Here are those steps: Download .NET Fx 1.1 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A8F5654F-088E-40B2-BBDB-A83353618B38&displaylang...
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