Jul 20, 2009
Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS6FIPS.NET
Jul 08, 2009
If you were a ASP.NET 1.1 developer, and faced some performance problems, I’m sure you would have come across the KB 821268 which talks about tweaking maxWorkerThreads, maxIoThreads in the <processModel>, minFreeThreads, minLocalRequestFreeThreads...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETPerformance
Jul 08, 2009
As you know there is no UI to configure iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication in IIS7, it takes a little more time to configure the site for the same. Here is an article in the iis.net site which explains the steps one by one…………… Read the rest of...
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Tags: IIS7
Jun 12, 2009
FREB (Failed Requests Tracing – formerly known as Failed Request Event Buffering) is one of the nicest features released with IIS7 which would come in handy during troubleshooting. It does request based tracing, and produces a log file (in .xml format...
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Tags: IIS7FREB
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
Jun 08, 2009
Dynamic IP Restrictions (DIPR) was created to give users a tool to help mitigate the effects of DOS attacks and certain brute-force password breaking attempts. The Out-Of-Band (OOB) feature description is (perhaps more elegantly) outlined on this page...
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Tags: ExtensionsSecurityIIS7IIS News ItemIIS 7Microsoft
Jun 08, 2009
NOTE : Before you even read about this module, I want to mention that I do not work for IIS product team at Microsoft, but in Product Support for IIS and ASP.NET. This module/application is purely out of my interest, and this is not an official release...
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Tags: IIS7
May 28, 2009
Certificate renewals have changed from IIS 6 to IIS 7. Specifically, IIS 7 generates a different type of certificate renewal. The way it was… IIS 6 creates a PKCS #10 type of renewal. This is essentially just a new request with the information...
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Tags: IIS7certificates