May 21, 2008
Due to the popularity of Windows 2008 Server Core I have seen frequently questions about how to configure SSL on IIS7 with only command-line. Since I wandered that path few months back I thought of putting this article/guide together. http://www.awesomeideas...
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Tags: IIS7CertificateappcmdServer CorecertutilSSL
Mar 20, 2008
IIS7 Mobile Admin is a simple web application to administer IIS7 remotely using a mobile phone browser. I provided few screenshots of IIS7 Mobile Admin in my previous blog post here http://www.awesomeideas.net/post/2008/03/04/IIS7-Mobile-Admin.aspx And...
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Tags: IIS7Hostable Web CoreCool StuffHWC
Mar 06, 2008
I wanted to introduce something I’ve been working during last couple of weekends. Yes you guessed it “ IIS7 Mobile Admin ” to show some love to our web server administrators who keeps our Web 2.0 world up and running! Ingredients IIS7 Hosted Web core...
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Tags: IIS7Hostable Web CoreCool StuffHWC
Dec 24, 2007
Hostable Web Core (known as HWC) is a new concept in IIS7 to host a website/webservice inside your own process. In short a smaller hosted version of IIS (an IIS7 express edition?). This is accomplished by making a LoadLibrary call to load hwebcore.dll...
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Nov 27, 2007
Here is another featured moved to kernel mode. Yea it's Windows Authentication which is by default configured to run in kernel mode. To see the dialog right click on "Windows Authentication" and select "Advanced Settings..." This applies to Windows 2008...
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Nov 26, 2007
There are so many things which has changed in IIS7 for the better and one of them is about the way SSL works. Although IIS6 allowed kernel mode SSL (starting with Windows 2003 SP1) that wasn't the default option. As far as I know (AFAIK) not many customers...
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Tags: IIS7
Sep 12, 2007
Although the title says webserver certificates the script is not limited to webserver certificates only. This script is useful for admins to check expiry dates of server certificates and be prepared to renew or change them. In case if you have ideas of...
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Tags: CertificateIIS
Sep 05, 2007
I had written a sample to redirect all http traffic to https (secure) in September 2006 http://www.awesomeideas.net/post/2006/09/03/Redirecting-from-http-to-https-in-IIS7.aspx In one of our internal discussion alias the question came up that this method...
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Tags: IIS7HTTP & IIS
Sep 03, 2006
I was thinking to write an HttpModule for IIS7 and wanted a simple, useful and easily understandable scenario. Working with IIS customers for last 3 years one of those common scenario came into my mind, Redirecting http traffic to https. Although this...
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Tags: IIS7HTTP & IIS
Jun 02, 2006
When I was a developer (I mean employed as a developer, even now I develop applications, don’t get me wrong J ) before joining Microsoft, I used to get stuck with application issues; whether its process crashing, process not responding or high memory...
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Tags: DebugDiag
Jun 02, 2006
So what is Appcmd.exe? This is "one" command line tool to administer IIS7. In IIS6 several of admin task were done using several scattered VBS script files. This made it difficult to find out what script needs to be run for eg. to get list of worker processes...
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Tags: IIS7
Jun 02, 2006
Before the boom of web and internet, HTTP was not so common is everyday life. When internet became more and more widely used, HTTP also grew in usage. Basic web server serves static HTML type contents and then was the era in which there came several ways...
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Tags: IIS7
May 16, 2006
Let us see how HTTP is extended to do more than serving static content. When we talk about Windows Platform & HTTP, Microsoft product which comes to the picture is IIS. In the early days (and early versions of IIS) HTTP was primarily used for hosting...
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Tags: HTTP & IIS
May 06, 2006
Most of my interactions in the past with customers, web developers and some of my prior colleagues, I have found that a larger percentage of them don't have a good understanding of how HTTP protocol works. This could be due to various reasons; some of...
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Tags: HTTP & IIS