Contents tagged with IIS7
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Require Client Certificates in IIS 7.5
Systems administrators often mistakenly correlate client certificates with SSL server certificates. Here is a great post from David Dietz that helps clear up some of the misconceptions.
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Working past 500–Internal server error
So you’ve written a new ASP.Net website, tested it locally in your development environment and you deploy it to your IIS server. Now you’re getting the dreaded 500 – Internal server error. What are you to do?
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Restricting web site traffic in IIS 7 and IIS 8
Sometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the structure of your organization may prevent that from happening in a timely manner. Or maybe you are frequently making changes to the restrictions making that a cumbersome chore.
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Serving files from a remote server in IIS 7
There is a question that I have been seeing more of in recent weeks. While it comes in different varieties, the essence of it has to do with having your files located on a server or device other than the IIS web server.
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How to manage a Windows cloud server
Managing a Windows cloud server can be a relatively easy task; especially if you know the basics. Check out the post I put together with the initial information that you need to know to get the most out of your Windows cloud server.
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Keeping Multiple IIS 7 Servers in Sync with Shared Configuration
If you have multiple front-end web servers serving up your content for your Internet Application, you will want to keep both the content and the Internet Information Services (IIS) settings synchronized between all the servers. That is where IIS Shared Configuration comes into play.
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Where is my IIS change going to be applied?
When you make a change to a website in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6, it is straightforward where your change was going to be applied. All information is stored in the Metabase.
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Easy Web Development With IIS Express
Triggered by a question in the forums the other day, I had started working on a blog post about IIS Express and how it works compared to Visual Studio Development web server, also known as Cassini. During my research I came across this well written and comprehensive post that covers everything that I was going to write about and more.
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IIS8 Memory Improvements
There is a lot of buzz in the Internet Information Services (IIS) community about IIS 8, the version of IIS that is included with Windows Server 2012. While there are plenty of new features in IIS 8, for this writing I am going to focus on the memory improvements that you will see for the application pools. Memory is a key resource on an IIS server as it is often the first limiting factor if you planned your CPU and disk requirements appropriately.
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Configuration files for Internet Information Services
I continue to see questions and confusion about the configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS). I hope to clear up some of the confusion by the time you have finished reading this post.