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Day 3 of IIS at Tech∙Ed IT Forum in Barcelona

Today was the third day at Microsoft Tech∙Ed: IT Forum 2006 in Barcelona, and customers are still asking some great questions about IIS. Today more customers mostly asked about their current IIS deployments and ways that they could make things better...

Day 2: IIS at Tech∙Ed IT Forum in Barcelona

Today was the second day of Microsoft Tech∙Ed: IT Forum 2006 in Barcelona. So far everything seems to be going well, and I've had the chance to talk with some great customers. Once again, the customers that visited our booth are most concerned with Clustering...

IIS at Tech∙Ed: IT Forum in Barcelona: Day 1

Today was the first official day of the 2006 Microsoft Tech∙Ed: IT Forum in Barcelona. I caught Bob Muglia's opening keynote address, and there were some great demos: Vista, Office 2007, SharePoint 2007, etc., but the best demo from an IIS perspective...

Tech∙Ed: IT Forum in Barcelona: Day 0

Today's the main registration day for the 2006 Microsoft Tech∙Ed: IT Forum in Barcelona. The show was sold out weeks ago, so there are 4,750 attendees and 400 people on the waiting list. There were a few pre-conference sessions today, but the main bulk...

Converting W3C log files to NCSA format

Around a year ago I wrote a blog entry titled " Converting NCSA log files to W3C format ", which showed how to use the MSWC.IISLog object to convert log files in the NCSA format back to W3C format. I wrote that blog entry to make up for the fact that...

Testing IIS 7 for Yourself

The momentum for IIS 7 is gradually building, and I keep seeing great things in the press and several blogs about it. You can read a few details below: IIS 7 Shows Continued Security Push http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1988880,00.asp IIS 7 http...

IIS Show #8

Okay, it's somewhat self-promoting, but I was cornered by Brett Hill the other day, who is the IIS 7 Evangelist for Microsoft, and he interviewed me for the IIS Show on MSDN's Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/IIS_Show We discuss several topics...

IIS Show #8

Okay, it's somewhat self-promoting, but I was cornered by Brett Hill the other day, who is the IIS 7 Evangelist for Microsoft, and he interviewed me for the IIS Show on MSDN's Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/IIS_Show We discuss several topics...

Programmatically Enumerating Installations of the FrontPage Server Extensions

I had a great question from a customer the other day: " How do you programmatically enumerate how many web sites on a server have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed? " Of course, that's one of those questions that sounds so simple at first, and...

FTP User Isolation with Multiple User Accounts

In IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0, if you created a virtual directory that had a name that was identical to a user name, when the user logged in to the FTP site they would automatically be changed to their folder. When multiple users will access the same FTP content...

Reverting log files back to the default W3C fields

Recently I had to work with a customer that was trying to use a 3rd-party utility that read W3C log files and it was failing to complete processing. I had the customer send me his log files, and upon examination I discovered that t he trouble was occuring...

Creating an Itemized List of Server Bindings

One of my servers has a large number of individual web sites on it, and each of these web sites has several serveral server bindings for different IP addresses, Port Assignments, and Host Headers. As I continue to add more web sites on the server, it...

To geek, or not to geek...

Like most of the computer-obsessed friends that I hang out with, I am often called a geek by the non-techie types that I have to interact with. (That list of non-techies includes my wife, by the way. ☺ ) I wondered if that was a label that I should wear...

To geek, or not to geek...

Like most of the computer-obsessed friends that I hang out with, I am often called a geek by the non-techie types that I have to interact with. (That list of non-techies includes my wife, by the way. ☺ ) I wondered if that was a label that I should wear...

Updating several IP addresses using ADSI

( Note : I had originally posted this information on a blog that I kept on http://weblogs.asp.net , but it makes more sense to post it here . [:)] ) Like many web programmers, I host several hobby web sites for fun. (They make a wonderful test bed for...

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