Steve Schofield's Blog : IIS

ODBC Logging, IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2008

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:32:00 GMT

I wrote an article in 2007 how to setup ODBC Logging on IIS 7.0. There was a post recently in the newsgroups someone wanted to setup and couldn't get it working. My article uses sql server 2005, IIS 7.0. I was able to reproduce an issue on my test server...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IIS 7 and Windows Failover clustering support!!

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Query password protected sites using IIS SEO Toolkit beta 2 available

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

FTP 7.5 blind drop article

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:15:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

UNC content with IIS 7 and Samba

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:30:00 GMT

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,...(read more)

Application Pool warm-up

Steve Schofield Weblog : IIS — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:06:00 GMT

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...(read more)