Apr 26, 2012
We had a customer question the other day about configuring FTP Client Certificate Authentication in FTP 7.0 and in FTP 7.5. It had been a while since the last time that I had configured those settings on an FTP server, so I thought that it would be great...
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Tags: FTP
Apr 20, 2012
A few years ago I wrote a blog that was titled " FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References ", in which I discussed the extensibility APIs that we added in FTP 7.5. Over the next couple of years I followed that initial blog with a series of walkthroughs...
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Tags: FTPIIS
Mar 21, 2012
Here at Microsoft we're pretty passionate about testing our own software. We often ask our customers to test the pre-release versions of our new software products, and we wouldn't ask our customers to try something that we're unwilling to do. To that...
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Tags: IIS
Mar 19, 2012
One of the biggest asks from our customers over the years was to provide a way to prevent brute-force password attacks on the FTP service. On several of the FTP sites that I host, I used to see a large number of fraudulent logon requests from hackers...
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Mar 06, 2012
Earlier today the IIS Express team released the IIS 8.0 Express Beta , and there are some great new features in this release! Here are just a few of the highlights: 64-bit Support IIS 8.0 Express now fully supports 64-bit application development. When...
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Tags: IIS Express
Feb 04, 2012
I had a great question from Scott Forsyth earlier today about programmatically flushing the logs for an FTP site. Scott had noticed that there was a FlushLog method listed on the following page in the IIS Configuration Reference: http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference...
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Tags: ScriptingIIS
Feb 03, 2012
I just stumbled across a piece of sample code that I had written several months ago for a coworker, and I thought that I'd share it with everyone. Here's the scenario: my coworker asked me if it was possible to have different client-side scripts inserted...
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Tags: ScriptingIIS
Jan 30, 2012
In Part 2 of this series, I'll show you how to customize the area chart from Part 1 to show the chart area with a gradient. More specifically, there are three different chart gradient methods that we'll take a look at in this blog post: SetOneColorGradient...
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Tags: ScriptingLogParserIIS
Jan 29, 2012
I recently had a situation where I wanted to customize the chart output from Log Parser, and after a bunch of research I eventually arrived at the conclusion that configuration scripts for create customized charts are probably the least-documented feature...
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Dec 31, 2011
Two months ago Microsoft published an update for the WebDAV module that shipped with IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and this update is documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article ID 2593591: FIX: A hotfix is available that enables...
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Tags: ScriptingWebDAVIIS
Dec 01, 2011
Many IIS 7 FTP developers may not have noticed, but all custom FTP 7 extensibility providers execute through COM+ in a DLLHOST.exe process, which runs as NETWORK SERVICE by default. That being said, NETWORK SERVICE does not always have the right permissions...
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Tags: FTP
Nov 16, 2011
Having written 10 blog posts in my series about FTP clients, I decided that it might be a good idea to recap some of the information that I have presented thus far. With that in mind, here is a quick recap of the entire series to date: Part 1: Web Browser...
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Nov 02, 2011
I recently had an interesting scenario that was presented to me by a customer: they had a business requirement where they needed to give the same username and password to a group of people, but they didn't want any two people to be able to see anyone...
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Oct 21, 2011
For this installment in my series about FTP Clients, I'd like to take a look at FTP Voyager from Rhino Software. For this blog I used FTP Voyager 15.2.0.17, and it is available from the following URL: http://www.ftpvoyager.com/ FTP Voyager is a great...
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Oct 18, 2011
I recently spoke with a great customer in India, and he was experimenting with the code from my Sending WebDAV Requests in .NET blog post. He had a need to send the WebDAV LOCK/UNLOCK commands, so I wrote a quick addition to the code in my original blog...
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Tags: WebDAV