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How to setup and use FTP User Isolation with Active Directory by Steve Schofield

This post is targeted at helping IIS Administrators understand how to setup FTP User Isolation and Active Directory together. There has been forum posts @ http://forums.iis.net regarding user isolation and Active Directory. It is pretty straight forward...

Use AppCMD to change Request Filtering extensions

Go to Inetmgr > ServerName > Request Filtering > Filename extensions. You can see all blocked extensions. Open a command prompt and type 'To allow c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config /section:system.webServer/security/requestFiltering...

Use Appcmd to set IIS compression level

Here are a few commands to set properties on IIS compression. c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:urlCompression /doDynamicCompression:true c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression -[name...

Custom Errors (error pages), 500-100.asp, Classic ASP and IIS 7.0

Custom Errors on IIS 7.0 and Classic ASP. In previous versions of IIS, there was a built-in error page called 500-100.asp. In IIS 7.0, this custom error page is not automatically listed. Here is a quick demo how I setup a couple ways to capture errors...

Using Active Directory with IIS 7.0 webfarms

This post is targeted at helping IIS Administrators understand how Active Directory can be used by IIS web-farms. My goal is to help anyone looking to deploy IIS (in a web-farm scenerio) and use Active Directory as a authentication store. There are several...

URLRewrite for IIS 7.0 released

IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Install the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW today! Microsoft URL...

How to use Security Configuration Wizard in Windows Server 2008 to lockdown a server with IIS

This article contains tips, tricks and steps to use Security Configuration wizard (SCW) included in Windows Server 2008. I was recently working on locking down Windows Server 2008 with IIS. By default, Windows Server 2008 is more locked down than any...

IIS MVP for 2009

Got some great news today!! "Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award!" It's been awesome to be part of the IIS community. Since IIS 7.0 has come out, the IIS community continues to grow. It's fun sharing and learning...

IIS Team releases more cool modules

The IIS Team has been releasing some really cool modules of late. Check them out. Also, keep an eye on http://blogs.iis.net for all the latest news! URLRewrite module http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/09/11/url-rewrite-module-go-live-release.aspx...

CDOSYS and Windows Server 2008, 80070005 Description Access is denied

I got a question from Bradley J. Dinerman about getting Aspmail working on Windows Server 2008. I've yet to figure out how to get AspEmail working on Windows Server 2008, I tried x64 and x86 of Windows Server 2008. I got the following error. Process monitor...

IIS6 to IIS7 migration tips / tricks.

Here are a few gotcha's that I personally came across both in the forums and migrations I've done from IIS6 to IIS7. A lot of the confusion I see in the forums is Classic ASP and 'native' applications using COM+ trying to move to IIS 7. A classic ASP...

URLScan 3.0 rtw (release to web) available

I have to give kudo's to the Microsoft IIS team for updating URLScan to help block automated sql injection attacks. Especially to Wade Hilmo and Nazim Lala . They have been very responsive when it came to involving the community (Thanks guys for the w3c...

Getting CDONTS to work on Windows Server 2008 x64

A few questions come up in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net about people moving Classic ASP applications that use CDONTS. CDONTS was introduced in NT4 and was widely popular. With the success of ASP applications 'back in the day', many used CDONTS to...

IIS7 - post #70 - IIS 7.0 podcast by Steve Schofield

I've listened to a lot of podcasts and never "until now" did a podcast. Craig Shoemaker approached me about doing a podcast. It was real easy! All I had to do was talk about the subject I've been involved with since December 2005, IIS 7.0. We introduced...

SQL Injection rule explaination how URLScan 3.0 scans requests

One of the things I was curious what URLScan actually scanned and how. What is just servervariables or what?! I asked Wade H from the IIS Team for further explaination. It is good to be aware when you are implementing URLScan 3.0 and sql injection rules...

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About Me

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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