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FTP Clients - Part 6: Core FTP LE

For this installment in my series about FTP Clients, I'd like to take a look at the Core FTP client. For this blog post I used Core FTP Lite Edition (LE) version 1.3c (build 1447) and version 2.1 (build 1603), although all of my screen shots are from...

BLOG - FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References

As I pointed out in my recent blog post that was titled " FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released ", one of the great new features of the FTP 7.5 service is extensibility. In that blog post I mentioned that I wrote the following walkthroughs to help...

Creating a Read-Only Membership Provider for phpBB 2.0 Users

I recently posted a blog that was titled Creating a Read-Only Snitz Membership Provider , where I re-used the code from my How to use the Sample Read-Only XML Membership and Role Providers with IIS 7.0 walkthrough on the learn.iis.net web site to write...

Advertising IIS Around the World

In case you haven't already surmised from some of my other blog posts, I've been around IIS for a long time, so it should go without saying that I'm a big fan of IIS. I remember when we first released IIS 1.0 for Windows NT 3.51 and we were handing out...

FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released!

Over the next few days you're going to hear a lot of details about many of the great new IIS extensions that the IIS feature team is releasing for the 2009 MIX Conference in Las Vegas later today. I don't want to spoil any surprises by talking about anyone...

Creating a Read-Only Snitz Membership Provider

For this blog post I'm going to take a brief departure from my FTP client series and share some code that I put together recently to help address a situation that presented itself a short time ago. Problem Description I keep a web site for my extended...

New IIS 7.0 Configuration Reference

For the past several months I have been working with several members of the IIS team on a brand-new configuration reference for IIS 7.0 that describes every configuration setting for IIS in great detail, which is now located at the following URL: http...

FTP Clients - Part 5: MOVEit Freely Command-Line Secure FTP Client

For this installment in my series about FTP Clients, I'd like to take a look at the MOVEit Freely Command-Line Secure FTP Client ("FTPS.EXE") from Ipswitch. For this blog post I used MOVEit Freely FTP Client version 5.0.0.0, and it is available...

FTP Clients - Part 4: FileZilla

For this next installment in my FTP Clients series, I'd like to take a look at the FileZilla FTP client. For this blog post I was using FileZilla version 3.1.6. There are a lot of places where you can find FileZilla, but the best location is the official...

FTP Clients - Part 3: Creating a Global Listener FTP Site

In my " FTP Clients - Part 1: Web Browser Support " blog post, I mentioned creating a secured Global Listener FTP Site when you're working with FTP virtual hosts, but I didn't really explain what I meant by that or why you would want to do this. With...

FTP Clients - Part 2: Explicit FTPS versus Implicit FTPS

In part 2 of my series on FTP clients, I thought it would be best to have a discussion about the differences between Implicit FTPS and Explicit FTPS . In my recent " FTP Clients - Part 1: Web Browser Support " blog post, I referenced Implicit and Explicit...

Using Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit Computer to edit ApplicationHost.config

Visual Studio 2008 as an XML Editor Everyone seems to have their own favorite XML editor these days, and there are no shortages of XML editors in the marketplace. The being said, I tend to use Visual Studio 2008 for several reasons, and if you're using...

AppCmd 80070057 errors when configuring site-level settings

I had an interesting question from a coworker who was trying to use AppCmd to set the site-level SSL options for an FTP site. This should have been straightforward, and the syntax that he gave me looked correct: appcmd.exe set config -section:system.applicationHost...

'Category does not exist' error when viewing IIS Worker Processes in IIS Manager

I ran into an interesting problem recently when using the new Worker Processes feature in the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager for IIS 7.0. The Worker Processes feature is a great addition to IIS, and it's used to view practical information...

FTP Clients - Part 1: Web Browser Support

Since we've been testing a lot of FTP clients with our new FTP server for IIS 7 , I thought that it would be a good idea to discuss some of the highlights and pitfalls that we have run into when testing various clients. I thought that I'd begin this series...

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