Steve Schofield's Blog

Use Process Monitor to filter w3wp processes, capture user property (w/pictures) article

2009-11-15T02:38:00Z

Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp/ Hope this helps, Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS...(read more)

IIS 7 and Windows Failover clustering support!!

2009-10-29T08:59:00Z

In Windows 2000 clustering, there was a resource for IIS clustering. This was removed and hasn't been available until recently Thomas Deml from the IIS team pointed to a KB article.. Exciting, Exciting news!! http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2009/10/27/iis7-and-failover-clustering.aspx Here is more information about Windows 2008 failover clustering http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/high-availability.aspx Clustering forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverClustering...(read more)

re: IIS MVP award again!

2009-10-28T10:34:45Z

Hi Steve Congrats on the renewal. See you at the Summit in Feb. /Peter...(read more)

Query password protected sites using IIS SEO Toolkit beta 2 available

2009-09-26T03:09:00Z

Carlos from the IIS team announced the IIS SEO toolkit supports querying sites with Basic or Windows Authentication. I was looking for support against Sharepoint and protected sites. This tool hasn't gotten enough press and is a original piece of software released by the IIS Team http://forums.iis.net/t/1158486.aspx Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS...(read more)

Control web.config inheritance with IIS 7, ASP.NET options

2009-09-20T02:56:00Z

A person I work with was looking to control web.config inheritance in sub-folders within a website. Through some research, asking on an geek mailing list, here is three options that came out. Two are IIS based , one is using ASP.NET. Hope this helps Option #1 Thanks to Robert McMurray for this one! "You can set the enableConfigurationOverride attribute to false for an application pool. For example, we set that attribute to false for the FPSE application pool so if a bad web.config file is uploaded...(read more)

re: Walkthrough on how to use FTP authentication to provide dynamic IP restrictions FTP 7.5

2009-09-01T12:52:30Z

FTP is looked at as an old tool but it works miracles if you know how to use it....(read more)

Great thread on IIS 7, WebDAV 7.5, Shared Hosting Config w/UNC folder location

2009-08-29T11:17:00Z

Here is a good thread about WebDAV, FTP 7.5, Shared configuration.. I try to track gems like this in my UNC tag. http://forums.iis.net/p/1160381/1915103.aspx Here is more information on Shared Configuration http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/95/managing-shared-configuration/ Cheers, Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS...(read more)

Troubleshooting SMTP Issues in Windows & IIS » Virtual Memory

2009-08-24T15:20:55Z

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FTP 7.5 blind drop article

2009-08-16T03:15:00Z

Years ago I wrote an article on setting up a blind drop FTP server I was searching for some information and ran across an updated article using FTP 7.5. Funny thing I recently setup a blind drop using FTP 7.5 and referred to my article on permissions. http://blogs.msdn.com/vivekkum/archive/2009/05/10/blind-drop-ftp-in-iis-7-7-5.aspx btw - here is a Blind Get , I've not tried on FTP 7.5, the permissions should be similar. http://www.iislogs.com/articles/blindget/ Hope this helps Steve Schofield Microsoft...(read more)

Walkthrough on how to use FTP authentication to provide dynamic IP restrictions FTP 7.5

2009-08-10T08:37:00Z

Few months back, Microsoft released a new module that blocked HTTP requests from brute force attack, http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions This is great for HTTP requests, but didn't address another pressing need, FTP brute force attacks. Robert McMurray published a walkthrough for the FTP service that shows how to create an authentication provider, that gives you dynamic IP restrictions for the FTP service. Here is the how-to: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/673/how-to-use-managed-code...(read more)

re: IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released

2009-07-28T02:49:54Z

It sure would be great if you could add a hook to perform a custom action in .net before the rule is applied. I have some complex requirements that require database lookups for some of my URLs before they can be properly rewritten. Any chance of this happening?...(read more)

Summary of stats since 10/1/2008 as an IIS MVP, few thoughts.

2009-07-25T13:28:00Z

MVP's provide information about how they have been active in their respective community. Here is some stats I calculated since 10/1/2008. Since joining the IIS community three years ago as an MVP (I was previously an ASP.NET MVP). Microsoft has focused on making the IIS community as dynamic as ASP.NET. IMO, they've succeeded and it continues to grow. Kudo's to the IIS team for providing a secure, dynamic platform in IIS 7.x. The additional modules, thriving community portal site ( www.iis.net ) I...(read more)

SMTP sous Vista

2009-07-23T12:39:36Z

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IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released

2009-07-18T03:50:00Z

Per an annoucement by Ruslan from the IIS team Keep up the great work. "Today IIS team has released the URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 - Beta. This is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds support for outbound response rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to: Replace the URLs generated by a web application in the response HTML with a more user friendly and search engine friendly equivalent Modify the links in the HTML markup generated by a web...(read more)

Information Post on FTP, Active, Passive settings and SSL by Alun Jones

2009-07-15T03:48:00Z

I started hanging out in the newsgroups again, along with the forums at http://forums.iis.net I ran across a particular interesting post by Alun Jones (Security MVP and maker of WSFTPD ). There are a fair amount of posts on http://forums.iis.net about FTP, some are confused by Active, Passive, and SSL settings. His posting in the newsgroups described this very clearly. (IMO). What people are confused about is how Active, Passive connections are handled. Here is his post http://omgili.com/newsgroups...(read more)