Robert McMurray Posts

May 02, 2013

In Part 1 of this blog series about adding custom FTP providers with the IIS Configuration Editor , I showed you how to add a custom FTP provider with a custom setting for the provider that is stored in your IIS configuration...

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Apr 30, 2013

Publishing technical documentation is an interesting business, and a lot of discussion & deliberation goes into the creation process for articles and videos that we produce at Microsoft. For example, when I am writing an article...

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Apr 24, 2013

A few years ago I wrote the following blog, wherein I described how the WebDAV functionality in IIS 6.0 worked with files that are Compound Document format: IIS 6.0 WebDAV and Compound Document Format Files As I explained in that...

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Mar 31, 2013

I've written a lot of walkthroughs and blog posts about creating custom FTP providers over the past several years, and I usually include instructions for adding these custom providers to IIS. When you create a custom FTP authentication...

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Mar 28, 2013

A customer asked me a question a little while ago that provided me the opportunity to recycle some code that I had written many years ago. In so doing, I also made a bunch of updates to the code to make it considerably more useful...

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Feb 28, 2013

In Part 6 of this series, I showed how to create a very basic COM-based input format provider for Log Parser. I wrote that blog post as a follow-up to an earlier blog post where I had written a more complex COM-based input format...

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Feb 27, 2013

In Part 4 of this series, I illustrated how to create a new COM-based input provider for Log Parser from a custom input format: Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 4 - Adding Custom Input Formats For the sample that I published in...

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Jan 31, 2013

For this installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at BitKinex 3 , which is an FTP client from Barad-Dur, LLC . For this blog I used BitKinex 3.2.3, and it is available from the following URL: http://www...

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Jan 31, 2013

I was recently creating a new authentication provider using FTP extensibility, and I ran into a weird behavior that I had seen before. With that in mind, I thought my situation would make a great blog subject because someone else...

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Dec 31, 2012

I had another interesting situation present itself recently that I thought would make a good blog: how to use Classic ASP with the IIS URL Rewrite module to dynamically generate Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml files. Overview Here...

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Dec 28, 2012

I'd like to take a brief departure from my normal series of IIS-related blogs and talk about something very near and dear to the hearts of many geeks - ripping a computer apart and upgrading its various hardware components just...

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Nov 30, 2012

For this installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at Beyond Compare 3 from Scooter Software . At its heart, Beyond Compare is a file/folder comparison tool, so it might seem an unlikely candidate for an...

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