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Stay up with your favorite IIS forum w/forum subscriptions feature @ forums.iis.net.
A majority of my geek time is spent at work, like most people. It's hard to keep up on technology coming out of Redmond. In past years, I would subscribe to several 'list-servs' on various content, then review the data when I had some extra time. It was a nice passive way to keep up on technology and pick up on some tidbits. I still do this for some technologies. With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook and other ways people are sharing information. It's not quite as easy IMO. The group I followed are HUGE twitter users, I kind of find this noisy and hard to keep up. Twitter has recently released 'groups' or 'lists' which you can group people. I haven't taken time to subscribe and group people. Anywho!
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ODBC Logging, IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2008
I wrote an article in 2007 how to setup ODBC Logging on IIS 7.0. There was a post recently in the newsgroups someone wanted to setup and couldn't get it working. My article uses sql server 2005, IIS 7.0. I was able to reproduce an issue on my test server (Windows Server 2008 R2, x64). Here are some items I ran into.
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Use Process Monitor to filter w3wp processes, capture user property (w/pictures) article
Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net
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IIS 7 and Windows Failover clustering support!!
In Windows 2000 clustering, there was a resource for IIS clustering. This was removed and hasn't been available until recently Thomas Deml from the IIS team pointed to a KB article.. Exciting, Exciting news!!
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re: IIS MVP award again!
Hi Steve
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Query password protected sites using IIS SEO Toolkit beta 2 available
Carlos from the IIS team announced the IIS SEO toolkit supports querying sites with Basic or Windows Authentication. I was looking for support against Sharepoint and protected sites. This tool hasn't gotten enough press and is a original piece of software released by the IIS Team
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Control web.config inheritance with IIS 7, ASP.NET options
A person I work with was looking to control web.config inheritance in sub-folders within a website. Through some research, asking on an geek mailing list, here is three options that came out. Two are IIS based , one is using ASP.NET. Hope this helps
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re: Walkthrough on how to use FTP authentication to provide dynamic IP restrictions FTP 7.5
FTP is looked at as an old tool but it works miracles if you know how to use it.
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Great thread on IIS 7, WebDAV 7.5, Shared Hosting Config w/UNC folder location
Here is a good thread about WebDAV, FTP 7.5, Shared configuration.. I try to track gems like this in my UNC tag.
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Troubleshooting SMTP Issues in Windows & IIS » Virtual Memory
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FTP 7.5 blind drop article
Years ago I wrote an article on setting up a blind drop FTP server I was searching for some information and ran across an updated article using FTP 7.5. Funny thing I recently setup a blind drop using FTP 7.5 and referred to my article on permissions.
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Walkthrough on how to use FTP authentication to provide dynamic IP restrictions FTP 7.5
Few months back, Microsoft released a new module that blocked HTTP requests from brute force attack, http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions This is great for HTTP requests, but didn't address another pressing need, FTP brute force attacks. Robert McMurray published a walkthrough for the FTP service that shows how to create an authentication provider, that gives you dynamic IP restrictions for the FTP service.
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re: IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released
It sure would be great if you could add a hook to perform a custom action in .net before the rule is applied. I have some complex requirements that require database lookups for some of my URLs before they can be properly rewritten. Any chance of this happening?
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Summary of stats since 10/1/2008 as an IIS MVP, few thoughts.
MVP's provide information about how they have been active in their respective community. Here is some stats I calculated since 10/1/2008. Since joining the IIS community three years ago as an MVP (I was previously an ASP.NET MVP). Microsoft has focused on making the IIS community as dynamic as ASP.NET. IMO, they've succeeded and it continues to grow. Kudo's to the IIS team for providing a secure, dynamic platform in IIS 7.x. The additional modules, thriving community portal site (www.iis.net) I can see this continuing to grow. It's fun to share my knowledge, learn new things and be part of a exciting community!
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SMTP sous Vista
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IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released
Per an annoucement by Ruslan from the IIS team Keep up the great work.
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Information Post on FTP, Active, Passive settings and SSL by Alun Jones
I started hanging out in the newsgroups again, along with the forums at http://forums.iis.net I ran across a particular interesting post by Alun Jones (Security MVP and maker of WSFTPD). There are a fair amount of posts on http://forums.iis.net about FTP, some are confused by Active, Passive, and SSL settings. His posting in the newsgroups described this very clearly. (IMO). What people are confused about is how Active, Passive connections are handled.
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Thank you IIS team for the SEO toolkit, it helped correct over 500 errors.
Here are my experiences about using the SEO toolkit by the IIS team. I had a few sections I wanted to improve for search engines, using the SEO toolkit, it identified over 700 found errors. I've reduced to 187 individual items, of which is tied to a few articles that need some reformating. The articles will get touched up, which mostly are HTML markup. This was VERY helpful in identifying items on my website (www.iislogs.com)
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UNC content with IIS 7 and Samba
Here is another thread on forums.iis.net that discusses UNC content, IIS 7 and Samba.
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One more reason to run IIS 7 - Thanks IIS team for the SEO toolkit!
The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit provides a set of tools that can be used to improve Web site’s relevance in search results by making the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis of site's structure and content and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.
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Application Pool warm-up
I had a post the other day on forums.iis.net that I did some research and wanted to share. It was regarding Application Pool warm-ups. Currently, there is no settings to help after a recycle, crash of an app pool etc. http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/#_Toc223325464 ASP.NET 4.0 has some configuration posted here. I know IIS 7.5 will have the plumbing to support this. A few searchs on the internet (Google, Live) shows there is plenty of Sharepoint warm-up scripts and ideas. Sharepoint is dreadfully slow on warm-up. Here are a couple of handle links I found.
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Configure Passive (PASV) ports for FTP 7 - w/pictures
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, in this case it's worth every one. Recently in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net, a few posts came up people trying to setup FTP over SSL with an external firewall. They were running into issues where they could connect, but couldn't get a directory list. After answering a few threads stating the configuration to support FTP over SSL with PASV ports. I thought I would blog what few steps to complete the config. This blog isn't meant to be the 'end all be all', but will be a targeted post to help people visually.
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Metabase ACL's reference KB
This is one of those KB articles I stumbled across on Metabase ACL's. I know IIS 7 doesn't formally have the metabase except for compat reasons, but this is handy for IIS 6 and below.
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Relay Restrictions and SMTP service, IISOLE.dll reference
This is one of *those* posts I refer to from time to time. There have been a few posts on http://Forums.iis.net regarding how to manage relay restrictions in SMTP service. I've used the IISOLE.dll against an IIS 6 server with no issues. I've not tested on IIS 7, so mileage may vary. Make sure to install the IIS 6.0 compat modules and test on a non-production box. If nothing else, download a trial version and create an instance using vmware, hyper-V or Virtual PC.
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IIS and IBM links don't necessarily cooperate. Here's how to fix!
Bookmarking for another day. I've never encountered this, but it's good to know. http://blogs.technet.com/ben/archive/2009/03/21/iis-link-parsing-wreaks-havoc-when-ibm-servers-are-involved.aspx Steve...(read more)
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Enuf said.....IIS Team does it again! More updates, More cool stuff.
Per an annoucement by Mai-lan "Today, at the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS. This wave of...(read more)
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Got an hour to burn? - Add Server Core R2 to a domain and Install IIS 7
I'm on my way to the 2009 MVP summit, I had a two hour layover in Detroit. Considering I forgot to bring a book to read, I thought I would geek a little. Within 40 minutes, I had a Server Core box configured with IIS, added to my domain and managing it...(read more)
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530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible, FTP 7.0 user isolation and Process Monitor
I was trying to reproduce an issue posted on the forums @ ( http://forums.iis.net ). As with many posts, I mention use Process Monitor. Here is a perfect example. Download Process Monitor Find out what PID (process ID) in task manager Open Process Monitor...(read more)
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More cool stuff from IIS team - The Dynamic IP Restrictions module
Hot off the presses! The Dynamic IP Restrictions includes these key features: Blocking of IP addresses based on number of concurrent requests - If HTTP client makes many concurrent requests then that client's IP address gets temporarily blocked. Blocking...(read more)
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IIS - Web platform installer v1 has been released
Overview The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer...(read more)
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Powershell 1.0 script to update Active Directory FTP User isolation attributes (msIIS-FTPDir, msIIS-FTPRoot)
I recently posted an article how to setup FTP User Isolation and Active Directory together. Here is the article . In the post, I mentioned you'll need to engage your AD administrator to update the two attributes. Here is a script using Powershell 1.0...(read more)