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Delegate Application Creation for Non-Admininistrator accounts
The Web Deployment Tool provides a way to delegate application creation to non-Administrator Windows users or IIS users. This blog covers how to configure this particular delegated setting. If you have not yet set up some users, or are not familiar with remote administration, I highly recommend going through this walkthrough: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/159/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-delegation-in-iis-70/ before trying out these steps.
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Using IIS Manager accounts for Web Deployment Tool (msdeploy) delegation
This blog outlines the basic steps for setting up IIS Manager accounts so that they may be used for Web Deployment Tool delegation.
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Patch for Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7 - Beta
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: http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions. In short, it is a handy tool that is easy to configure to protect a site/server from certain attacks.
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TAP Once for Quality
Microsoft is home to a number of acronyms, to the point where it is sometimes referred to as TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) land. I am a recent graduate of an acronym program: TAP, which stands for Test Apprentice Program. This program was designed to take non-CS majors with a penchant for breaking things and turn them into qualified software testers.