Robert McMurray Posts

Using URL Rewrite with Web Site Testing

Recently I ran into an interesting situation when I was rolling out a new web-based application. I had tested it on my development server, and because it was a rather complex application I wanted to test it on my production server before making it live...

Migrating FPSE Roles Between Servers

I ran into one of those strange situations the other day where you feel like you've been doing the same thing on your computer at some time in the distant past - kind of like déjà vu for geeks. In this specific case, I was moving some web sites that I...

Creating a Microsoft Access Provider for IIS Database Manager

Following up on my last blog post about the API set for the IIS Database Manager , I have something of a secret to let you in on - you can use the code samples in several of those API documents to create a fully functional provider for Microsoft Access...

Database Manager API Topics on MSDN

Today Microsoft released version 1.0 of the IIS Database Manager , which enables you to manage local and remote SQL Server or MySQL databases through the IIS Manager. I cannot stress enough how this module has rapidly become one of my favorite extensions...

eWeek Reviews for IIS 7.5 and FTP 7.5

One of my coworkers, Vijay Sen, just forwarded the following eWeek review of IIS 7.5 to me: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/REVIEW-Microsoft-IIS-75-Improves-Management-Deployment-Options-822018/ The review was written by Jim Rapoza , and he said some...

FTP 7.5 Extensibility and Visual Studio Express Editions

In earlier blog posts I have mentioned that I written the several walkthroughs to help developers get started writing providers for the FTP 7.5 service, all of which available on Microsoft's learn.iis.net Web site under the " Developing for FTP 7.5 "...

Hiding your FTP Server Type and Preventing Unauthorized Access

As evidenced by my How to Use Managed Code (C#) to Create an FTP Authentication Provider with Dynamic IP Restrictions walkthrough and my other FTP authentication extensibility walkthroughs, I spend a lot of time trying to find ways to prevent unauthorized...

Creating Recursive Directory Listing Files for FTP Clients

One of the changes that we made in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 was to remove recursive directory listings, which are commonly retrieved by typing " ls -lR " from a command-line FTP client, which should send a command like " NLST -lR " over FTP to the server....

The End of Metabase Corruption (R.I.P.)

Even though IIS 7 with its new XML-based configuration settings has been around for a while, I was going through some old directories on one of my computers the other day and I stumbled across an image that I had labeled "Metabase Corruption." I have...

Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs - Part 2

I had not intended to do a series on this subject when I wrote my original Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs blog post, but I came up with a scenario that I felt was worth sharing. I recently posted the following walkthrough on the learn.iis.net...

Automatically Creating Checksum Files for FTP Uploads

I had a great question in the publishing forums on forums.iis.net , where someone was asking if FTP 7 supported the XCRC command. The short answer is that the XCRC command is not supported, but I came up with a way to create an FTP provider that supports...

A Little Scripting Saved My Day (;-])

I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I tend to write many of my blog posts and walkthroughs for IIS.NET based on code that I’ve written for myself, and today’s blog post is the story of how one of my samples saved my rear over this past weekend...

Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs

Over the past several months I’ve been publishing a series of walkthroughs that use the extensibility in FTP 7.5 to create a several custom providers for a variety of scenarios, and today I posted my most recent entry in the series: How to Use Managed...

Using Apple's WebDavFS for Mac OS X with WebDAV on IIS 7

Today's blog post needs to have a disclaimer right up front - I freely admit I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so I may not have everything 100% correct in this post. But I've seen a lot of questions on forums.iis.net that discuss using IIS WebDAV with Mac OS...

Using LogParser with FTP 7.x Sessions

One of the great features that we added to our W3Clogging enhancements in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 is the ability to track unique sessions, which are represented by GUIDs in a field that is named x-session . Because of this addition, you can do some interesting...

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