Jun 25, 2009
Last week I posted the following blog which showed how to use Process Monitor to troubleshoot service startup issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/06/16/troubleshooting-service-startup-issues-with-process-monitor.aspx To continue on that...
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Tags: IISHTTPIIS6securityToolsAccess DeniedAuthentication
Jun 09, 2009
We had a couple of forum threads that reported an issue in the Beta module for Dynamic IP Restrictions . Since we are doing a significant amount of change for Beta 2, we wanted to unblock customers affected by this issue be releasing a patch. So here...
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Tags: IIS7Dynamic IP RestrictionHTTP
Mar 11, 2009
In IIS 7 we have request filtering available to help with locking down files and directories that you don't want to serve out. This is useful for resources (like configuration) that you want your IIS worker process to have access to, but not serve it...
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Tags: RequestFilteringIIS6IIS7IIS5XHTTP
Feb 24, 2009
Cross-posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/mike Enabling HTTP Compression for your IIS6 web applications is one way of increasing site performance. One of the more common problems I see when helping customers with compression is that their IIS servers are...
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Tags: HTTPHTTP CompressionIIS6
Feb 17, 2009
After sending an HTTP request to IIS, an Internet Explorer client displayed the following error message to the user: Bad Request Beginning in IIS 6.0, “Bad Request” errors are almost always returned by HTTP.sys, so the next step was to look in the httperr...
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Tags: HTTPsecurity
Feb 04, 2009
In my last post I talked about the history of multi-bitrate streaming and how we got from RTSP and HTTP streaming back to HTTP download as the primary media web distribution mechanism. In this post we’ll take a closer look at how adaptive streaming...
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Tags: Internet Information ServicesExpression EncoderSilverlightSmooth StreamingIISadaptive streamingOlympicsHTTPWindows Media
Oct 14, 2008
Although using WIX to create an MSI to do this task is a cleaner approach, it is too heavy duty for me. I do this often enough to warrant creating a script for it, so I though I would share it out. To use it you would run: InstallUrlScanAtSite.js -siteid...
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Tags: UrlScanIIS6IIS7IIS5XHTTP
Oct 14, 2008
Microsoft has just released MS09-012 to address this issue in it’s entirety. Get further details here . You have probably heard about the Token Kidnapping vulnerability in Windows and read Microsoft's security advisory on it and are wondering why there...
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Tags: IIS6Windows SecurityHTTP