Archives
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November IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and articles in the IIS community, be sure to check out the November edition of the IIS Community Newsletter.
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August IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and articles in the IIS community, be sure to check out the August edition of the IIS Community Newsletter.
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Require Client Certificates in IIS 7.5
Systems administrators often mistakenly correlate client certificates with SSL server certificates. Here is a great post from David Dietz that helps clear up some of the misconceptions.
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Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks in IIS 7.5
It is surprising with all the advances in Internet technologies that there is still a lot of old school code being used and reused. Because of that, there are some topics that will be around for many years to come. SQL Injection is one of those topics. Rather than write an abstract blog post about mitigating SQL Injection attacks, I am presenting this topic from my point of view.
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July IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and articles in the IIS community, be sure to check out the July edition of the IIS Community Newsletter.
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Windows PowerShell 4.0 Preview
As a systems administrator you like to stay on top of the latest technologies, right? Well you won’t want to miss the opportunity to get ahead of the curve and start experimenting with Windows PowerShell 4.0. It is included as part of the Windows Management Framework 4.0 Preview located in the Microsoft Download Center.
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Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Services
In previous versions of Windows, Remote Desktop Services (RDS) was known as Terminal Services. There have been many changes made to this collection of services in Windows 2012. If you are looking for a list of these changes, there are a large number of blog posts out there that explain in detail all the changes.
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May IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and happenings in the IIS community, be sure to check out the May edition of the IIS Community Newsletter!
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April IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and happenings in the IIS community, be sure to check out the April edition of the IIS Community Newsletter!
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Getting Started With URL Rewrite
As a server administrator, primarily focused on IIS, I like spending time in the IIS forums. I frequently see questions related to URL Rewrite rules so I wanted to make a guide for the plethora of information that is available on the Internet.
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Installing SQL Server Native Client 10.0
I came across an issue today where a website had a dependency on the SQL Server Native Client 10.0, which is part of SQL Server 2008. A recent upgrade to SQL Server 2012 caused SQL Server Native Client 11.0 to be installed and version 10.0 to be uninstalled.
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CPU Throttling in IIS 8
From time to time I encounter a website that is maxing out the server’s CPU. In previous versions of IIS, there were two basic options. One, you could do nothing. Or two, you could kill the worker process for a specified number of minutes.
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February IIS Community Newsletter
For the latest news and happenings in the IIS community over the past month, be sure to check out the February edition of the IIS Community Newsletter!
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Working past 500–Internal server error
So you’ve written a new ASP.Net website, tested it locally in your development environment and you deploy it to your IIS server. Now you’re getting the dreaded 500 – Internal server error. What are you to do?
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Restricting web site traffic in IIS 7 and IIS 8
Sometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the structure of your organization may prevent that from happening in a timely manner. Or maybe you are frequently making changes to the restrictions making that a cumbersome chore.
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Completely uninstall MySQL from Windows
Some time ago I was running a few tests in my lab environment against a current version of MySQL. A few months later I needed to access it again but I forgot my root password so I wanted to start from scratch. Easy enough, right? Just go to Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel and uninstall MySQL.
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Monitor MS SMTP queue from ASP.Net
I came across a situation today where I needed to monitor the number of files in the Microsoft SMTP queue from a web page. While there are numerous ways I considered approaching this, I wanted it to be simple, portable, and easy to maintain.
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Serving files from a remote server in IIS 7
There is a question that I have been seeing more of in recent weeks. While it comes in different varieties, the essence of it has to do with having your files located on a server or device other than the IIS web server.