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

Jul 14, 2009

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...

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Thank you IIS team for the SEO toolkit, it helped correct over 500 errors.

Jul 14, 2009

Here are my experiences about using the SEO toolkit by the IIS team. I had a few sections I wanted to improve for search engines, using the SEO toolkit, it identified over 700 found errors. I've reduced to 187 individual items, of which is tied to a few...

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UNC content with IIS 7 and Samba

Jul 02, 2009

Here is another thread on forums.iis.net that discusses UNC content, IIS 7 and Samba. http://forums.iis.net/p/1158781/1909100.aspx Great stuff! Added to my collection of UNC based posts and articles. http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/tags...

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One more reason to run IIS 7 - Thanks IIS team for the SEO toolkit!

Jun 03, 2009

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit provides a set of tools that can be used to improve Web site’s relevance in search results by making the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module,...

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Application Pool warm-up

May 30, 2009

I had a post the other day on forums.iis.net that I did some research and wanted to share. It was regarding Application Pool warm-ups. Currently, there is no settings to help after a recycle, crash of an app pool etc. http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers...

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Configure Passive (PASV) ports for FTP 7 - w/pictures

May 15, 2009

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, in this case it's worth every one. Recently in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net , a few posts came up people trying to setup FTP over SSL with an external firewall. They were running into issues where they could...

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Metabase ACL's reference KB

May 10, 2009

This is one of those KB articles I stumbled across on Metabase ACL's. I know IIS 7 doesn't formally have the metabase except for compat reasons, but this is handy for IIS 6 and below. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326902 Cheers, Steve Read More...

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Relay Restrictions and SMTP service, IISOLE.dll reference

Apr 08, 2009

This is one of *those* posts I refer to from time to time. There have been a few posts on http://Forums.iis.net regarding how to manage relay restrictions in SMTP service. I've used the IISOLE.dll against an IIS 6 server with no issues. I've not tested...

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IIS and IBM links don't necessarily cooperate. Here's how to fix!

Mar 21, 2009

Bookmarking for another day. I've never encountered this, but it's good to know. http://blogs.technet.com/ben/archive/2009/03/21/iis-link-parsing-wreaks-havoc-when-ibm-servers-are-involved.aspx Steve...( read more ) Read More...

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Enuf said.....IIS Team does it again! More updates, More cool stuff.

Mar 19, 2009

Per an annoucement by Mai-lan "Today, at the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS. This wave of...

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Got an hour to burn? - Add Server Core R2 to a domain and Install IIS 7

Mar 01, 2009

I'm on my way to the 2009 MVP summit, I had a two hour layover in Detroit. Considering I forgot to bring a book to read, I thought I would geek a little. Within 40 minutes, I had a Server Core box configured with IIS, added to my domain and managing it...

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530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible, FTP 7.0 user isolation and Process Monitor

Feb 20, 2009

I was trying to reproduce an issue posted on the forums @ ( http://forums.iis.net ). As with many posts, I mention use Process Monitor. Here is a perfect example. Download Process Monitor Find out what PID (process ID) in task manager Open Process Monitor...

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More cool stuff from IIS team - The Dynamic IP Restrictions module

Feb 16, 2009

Hot off the presses! The Dynamic IP Restrictions includes these key features: Blocking of IP addresses based on number of concurrent requests - If HTTP client makes many concurrent requests then that client's IP address gets temporarily blocked. Blocking...

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IIS - Web platform installer v1 has been released

Jan 22, 2009

Overview The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer...

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Powershell 1.0 script to update Active Directory FTP User isolation attributes (msIIS-FTPDir, msIIS-FTPRoot)

Jan 02, 2009

I recently posted an article how to setup FTP User Isolation and Active Directory together. Here is the article . In the post, I mentioned you'll need to engage your AD administrator to update the two attributes. Here is a script using Powershell 1.0...

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Steve has been in the IT field for more than 12 years, starting in June of 1999 when he started ASPFree.com to provide content and examples using Classic ASP. In June of 2000, ASPFree.com was one of the first sites to run ASP.NET in production. He is also the creator of IISLogs.com. IISLogs is a solution that helps administrators manage log files. Steve can be found helping out at http://forums.iis.net. Steve is currently an IIS MVP. Previously, he was an ASP.NET MVP from 2002 – 2006.

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