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Setup IIS on Server Core – Windows Server 2008 R2

RuslanY Blog — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:20:24 GMT

With the addition of .NET Framework to Server Core in Windows Server 2008 R2 the Server Core installation option became even more appealing for those who want to use a very low footprint server for hosting their applications. Availability of .NET framework provides the following great benefits: ASP.NET support – you can now use Server Core to host your ASP.NET applications. IIS Remote Management – Server Core does not provide any user interface other than command line. But if you prefer to use IIS Manager UI to administer IIS, you can now use IIS Remote Manager to connect to IIS on Server Core and perform all the management tasks from within familiar UI of IIS Manager. PowerShell – Windows Server 2008 R2 includes IIS PowerShell snapin, which...(read more)

Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta

RuslanY Blog — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:34:00 GMT

Today IIS team has released the Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS 7.0 - Beta. The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through Brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level. Install the Dynamic IP Restrictions Beta Today! Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x86) Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x64) If IIS already has IPv4 Address and IP...(read more)

ASP.NET postbacks and URL rewriting

RuslanY Blog — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:04:11 GMT

ASP.NET Web Forms extensively use postback mechanism in order to maintain the state of the server-side controls on the web page. This makes it somewhat tricky to perform URL rewriting for ASP.NET pages. When a server side form control is added to the web page, ASP.NET will render the response with HTML <form> tag that contains an action attribute pointing back to the page where the form control is. This means that if URL rewriting was used for that page, the action attribute will point back to the rewritten URL, not to the URL that was requested from the browser. This will cause the browser to show rewritten URL any time a postback occurs. Let me demonstrate this on an example. Assume you have a very simple web form in a file called default...(read more)

Wildcard script mapping and IIS 7 integrated pipeline

RuslanY Blog — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:30:18 GMT

The big benefit of IIS 7 integrated request processing pipeline is the fact that all the nice and useful ASP.NET features can be used for any type of content on your web site; not just for ASP.NET-specific content. For example, ASP.NET SQL-based membership can be used to protect static files and folders. Also, ASP.NET extensibility API’s, such as IHttpHandler and IHttpModule can be used to add custom modules and handlers that would be executed even for non-ASP.NET content. IIS 6 did not have this level of integration. ASP.NET was plugged into IIS 6 as an ISAPI extension and by default was configured to handle ONLY requests mapped to that extension - for example any request that ended with “.aspx” would be be processed by ASP...(read more)

Introduction

RuslanY Blog — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:29:11 GMT

My name is Ruslan Yakushev. I am a program manager on IIS team, working on some of the very interesting projects that are being developed in the team right now. I have joined the team about a year ago, and was thinking about starting a blog for a while now. The primary work responsibilities kept me busy, so I have been postponing blog idea for a while. Every time I needed to make an announcement or an update on IIS community site, I asked some of my colleagues on the team to blog my content. Finally, I figured that I should probably start my own blog, so I could have all the freedom of publishing my own content any time I want. Being a technical program manager on the team, I like to use (in other words - “dogfood”) the products...(read more)