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Using WMI to change the local administrator password for all servers in an OU or Container
Just sharing a nice little script to query all the computers in an OU and change the local Administrator password for each one. One thing to note, if your computers happen to be in the default Computers container, you need to change the LDAP query from "OU=Finance" to "CN=Computers" (CN indicates container).
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IIS requests could be slower if your log file directory is invalid or offline
If you are pointing your W3SVC log files to a location that is incorrect or goes offline, especially if it is a remote UNC share like \\server\logs – your requests on IIS 6 could be slower. The reason is that HTTP.sys wants to write an entry for each request and there is a delay when it tries to write to an invalid location. This would be even slower if it is an invalid UNC share, since the timeout waiting for a response would be longer.
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FPSE on IIS 7 Longhorn
An update from Robert about FPSE:
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Getting 64-bit or 32-bit applications working on IIS 6.0 x64
When running on x64 hardware, you have two options. First, to run in native 64-bit mode. This means all the applications running need to be 64-bit. The second is to run worker processes in 32-bit mode, which means all applications need to be 32-bit. This gives you good compatibility and performance is really good too.
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SharePoint v3 templates - the fantastic 40
The new SharePoint templates have arrived. To provide a complete solution, especially for small businesses, SharePoint v3 offers these pre-packaged templates. Each one solves a business problem and offers not only a fully functioning site out of the box, but also allows for customization so you can differentiate what you offer.
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SharePoint (WSS v3) Guidance for Shared Hosting
SharePoint v3 offers a lot of great features and functionality for hosters and this whitepaper talks about how to use these features to create a shared hosting solution. The whitepaper is built upon lessons learned from a dozen or so hosting partners conducted over the past several months. The guide includes things like ways to deploy SharePoint, how to use forms authentication with SharePoint, how to provision SharePoint sites, migration from WSS v2 to v3 and even a section about deployment issues in hosting scenarios.
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PHP and IIS together
Not particularly new news now, but if you haven't started investigating PHP on Windows yet, here's your chance. Not only did IIS collaborate with Zend, they also made a download available for IIS 7 and IIS 6. From the news article on iis.net, looks like the effort is just starting - "This announcement coincides with a broader announcement regarding collaboration between Microsoft and Zend to improve performance and stability of PHP on the Windows platform."
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Hosting IIS with UNC content - Network BIOS commands and other errors
IIS and UNC - everyone wants to know more. The ASP.NET 2.0 Deployment Guide already talks about configuring ASP.NET over UNC. So now, let's explore SMB work contexts and how they are a huge factor for IIS/UNC configurations.
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Do you want to get your data from SQL Express (mdf) to a SQL Server database?
There's a new tool available from the SQL team that helps you transfer your data from a local SQL Express file to a hosted SQL Server database. We've all heard customers asking how to get their local mdf into their hosted database. Now there is an answer.
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Are you a system or web administrator looking for a great opportunity?
Our hosting team at Microsoft is hiring ... so if you're a system or web administrator (or you know one), this is a unique opportunity to work with the IIS product team on a really cool project. We provide internal hosting in order to deploy and test the latest and greatest products. Come work on IIS 7, Windows Server code name "Longhorn" and the latest technologies in a hosted environment.