Robert McMurray

In my last blog post I reviewed the SmartFTP Client, where I briefly mentioned that the SmartFTP Client has built-in extensibility support, and I promised to include a script that I've been testing. I have made it abundantly obvious in many of my earlier blog posts that I love writing scripts or extending the functionality of existing products whenever I can, so having built-in extensibility for an FTP client definitely caught my interest.

For this installment in my series about FTP Clients I'm going to review the SmartFTP Client from SmartSoft Ltd. For this blog post I used the SmartFTP Client Ultimate Edition version 4.0.1105.0, and it is available from the following URL:

I have seen many issues over the past few years when customers try to use the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to send form results via email, and a recent post to forums.iis.net was enough motivation for me to decide to write a blog about this issue. I've helped a lot of customers to get this scenario working, and with that in mind, I'd like to explain a little bit about the technology involved, its limitations, and what I think is the best workaround for the situation.

I've had a few questions about getting the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE2002) AllowUNC feature to work with Windows Server 2008, so I thought that I would put together a blog from some of the information that I had been giving out whenever someone was having problems.

We recently ran into a situation where a customer thought that they were seeing file corruption when they were transferring files from a Windows 7 client to their IIS 6.0 server using WebDAV. More specifically, the file sizes were increasing for several specific file types, and for obvious reasons the checksums for these files would not match for verification. Needless to say this situation caused a great deal of alarm on the WebDAV team when we heard about it - file corruption issues are simply unacceptable.

One of the many projects that I've been working on for the past several months is an updated version of the IIS 7 configuration reference that describes every configuration setting for IIS in detail, which is located at the following URL:

I was going through some of my notes the other day and I stumbled across the following chart that I thought I'd share. I put this chart together for a coworker that had asked me about some of the advantages and disadvantages when using different account types with FTP.

Continuing my brief departure from my normal IIS-related blogs and looking at Office Outlook again, today's blog looks at cleaning up your calendar. If you read my previous blog about Moving Emails Into Personal Folders, you would have read about my need to clean up my mail folders because I was running out of room on my Exchange server. A short time before that situation I had run into a different issue: I was looking through my calendar and I discovered that I had several meetings in my calendar that were from many years ago - in fact, I had a few meetings in my calendar that were well over ten years old!