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Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 6, 2012
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Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories...

Whats new in WCF 4.5? Improved streaming in IIS hosting

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 3, 2012
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Improved streaming in IIS hosting...

Thoughts on SharePoint Application Pools, Recycling and "JIT Lag"

Eli Robillards World of Blog., January 30, 2012
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What are Application Pools? Application Pools are a .NET construct, and each pool represents an instance of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) executing managed .NET code. Each application pool in IIS ...

IIS FTP User Isolation-Week 46

Scott Forsyths WebLog, January 23, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. Ive been looking forward to releasing this weeks video.  IIS FTP User isolation is an interesting topic because it offers a lot of power and flexibility but i...

IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users-Week 45

Scott Forsyths WebLog, January 4, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. They are useful i...

Accepting Questions for Web Pro Series Q&A

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 19, 2011
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If youve been following my 52-week series you most likely noticed that were nearing the end.  This evening, for example, Im recording week 47.  Predrag Tomasevic (see developer related art...

Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio

Rick Strahls WebLog, December 15, 2011
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Recently I've seen quite a few questions pop up in regards to debugging ASP.NET application initialization. Most commonly I see something along these lines: I'm trying to debug my ASP.NET application...

IIS FTP BasicsWeek 44

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 13, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol has been in wide use for years and is still widely used today. It's used for transferring files between locations and pra...

Transform your IIS into a real-time pub/sub engine with Faye-Node

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), December 12, 2011
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Faye is a simple Http Pub/Sub server initially implemented by John Coglan in Ruby, and also later ported by himself to Node.js. The version for Node.js implements the Bayeux protocol, which at first g...

IIS 7.x Classic and Integrated Pipeline Modes-Week 43

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 5, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. IIS 7 has two application pool pipeline modes: Classic and Integrated. Using Integrated mode is the ideal since it allows forms authentication for all types of pag...

Setting an aspnet.config File per Application Pool

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 1, 2011
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The aspnet.config file is a little known config file which is supported by ASP.NET 2.0 and greater.  Generally it lives in the root of the framework folder, for example: C:\Windows\Micro...

Change Password vs. Reset Password-Week 42

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 30, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. The differences between change password and reset password are not well known. This week's video walks through the differences and shows them in action. Tune in to...

Getting Started with IIS 7.5 and ASP.NET 2.0 Classic

The Code Project Latest Articles, November 26, 2011
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Use this article as a guideline for getting your ASP.NET website onto IIS 7.5, from scratch...

URL Rewrite city.domain.com to domain.com/city

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 23, 2011
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An IIS 7.x URL Rewrite question that comes up often is how to redirect something.domain.com to domain.com/city. Heres an example URL Rewrite rule to accomplish that: <rule name="CNam...

Line Numbering in Notepad-Week 41

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 21, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Notepad is so simple, yet so useful. Yet, at times the "Go To" appears to break and doesn't work as expected. This week's video is short and sweet. Learn...

ASP.NET Server.TransferRequest performs a full IIS child request under the covers, which allows it to re-run the entire request pipeline for the new request as if it was a separate request, getting th

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, November 11, 2011
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The new ASP.NET TransferRequest method performs a complete request by using an IIS 7 worker thread.  read moreBy Peter Bromberg...

Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5?

peterkellner.net, October 31, 2011
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Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type.  One easy way to do it is to add to your web.config the following:   ....

Resolving Blocked Ports Through Windows Firewall-Week 40

Scott Forsyths WebLog, October 28, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week's video shows how to easily and quickly track down IPs and ports that need to be opened to allow legitimate traffic through the firewall. Part of being...

Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode

JonGalloway.ToString(), October 26, 2011
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Node.js is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on the open-source V8 Javascript engine. It's really easy to run it on Windows now, and if you run it under iisnode, it's actual...

Introduction to Log Parser-Week 39

Scott Forsyths WebLog, October 17, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Log Parser is a powerful tool that every web administrator should become familiar with. With Log Parser we can do deep troubleshooting and data mining of the IIS L...

Using request filters in DotNetNuke to restrict website access

Shaun Walker, October 11, 2011
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Have you ever had the need to blog a range of IP Addresses from accessing your website? Or perhaps, setup a website that is only accessible to a specific range of IP Addresses? DotNetNuke Request Filt...

High Availability for ARR-Week 38

Scott Forsyths WebLog, October 7, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Note: This weeks video got stuck in the publishing process so sorry for the delay, but here it is.  Next week Ill move on to some other topics besides web far...

Using Service Bus Queues with WCF

Tom Hollanders blog, October 6, 2011
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In 2008 I posted a series of blog articles about how to use MSMQ, WCF and IIS together. I chose to use this architecture as it combined the scalability and resiliency benefits of durable asynchronous ...

Migrating From WP7 To MangoGetting Started

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, October 6, 2011
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A Windows Phone Mini-Series There are hundreds of great new features in Mango, and Windows Phone programmers will want that transition to be as smooth as possible. Margaret Parsons and I have been bus...

Figuring out the IIS Version for a given OS in .NET Code

Rick Strahls WebLog, September 19, 2011
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Here's an odd requirement: I need to figure out what version of IIS is available on a given machine in order to take specific configuration actions when installing an IIS based application. I build se...

ARR Binding Trick-Week 36

Scott Forsyths WebLog, September 13, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week's video shows a specific trick to allow a reverse proxyApplication Request Routing in this casehow to use only one IP address per web servers while suppo...

Three ARR Back End Binding OptionsWeek 35

Scott Forsyths WebLog, September 7, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. ARR and other reverse proxies need a way to connect to the actual web nodes. Like other reverse proxies, Microsofts free load balancing solutionApplication Request...

How to convert CIDR IP block lists to IIS applicationHost.config format

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, September 1, 2011
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How to block IP addresses in Internet Information Server with CIDR format block lists  read moreBy Peter Bromberg...

ARR Health ChecksWeek 34

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 31, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Application Request Routing (ARR) is used as a load balancer (reverse proxy) for highly available websites. This week I cover health checks in ARR and lay out a fe...

How to convert CIDR IP block lists to IIS applicationHost.config format

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, August 30, 2011
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How to block IP addresses in Internet Information Server with CIDR format block lists  read moreBy Peter Bromberg...

Introduction to Application Request Routing-Week 31

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 24, 2011
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Im finally catching up on the series.  Sorry to those who have asked about the delay.  I had completed the videos, but a delay with the article submission kept week 31 from going live. ...

Bindings and Rules for ARR-Week 32

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 24, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week we take a look at how to leverage URL Rewrite for Application Request Routing (ARR) to create different rules for different virtual IP's (VIP's). This is...

ARR Helper-Week 33

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 24, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week we take a look at the issue caused by the man-in-the-middle and how to resolve it with ARR Helpera small component offered by Microsoft to address this v...

IIS Shared ConfigStaggered Install-Week 30

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 29, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week's lesson covers how to perform staggered installs when IIS Shared Configuration is enabled. This is week 30 of a 52 week series for the web pro. IIS Sha...

IIS 7.x Shared ConfigurationAdvanced Tips and Tricks-Week 29

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 20, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This video covers advanced under the hood tips and tricks for IIS Shared Config. If you are already familiar with Shared Config and want to go deeper, this video i...

IIS 7 Shared ConfigurationWeek 28

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 14, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. IIS 7 (and 7.5) offers an extremely useful and easy to use feature for shared web farm situations, called Shared Configuration. This week walks through how to setu...

Switching Physical Path of Website Using a Script

The Code Project Latest Articles, July 5, 2011
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Switching IIS websites' physical location automatically...

DFS-R for Web Server Replication-Week 27

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 4, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This weeks video lesson covers the end to end process of installing DFS, adding shared folders, troubleshooting, and watching it in action. Distributed File Syste...

How to Setup an Active Directory Domain-Week 26

Scott Forsyths WebLog, June 29, 2011
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Today's lesson covers how to create an Active Directory domain and join a member server to it. This week's topic takes a slightly different turn from the normally IIS related topics, but this is key v...

Hosting Services with WAS and IIS on Windows Azure

Tom Hollanders blog, June 27, 2011
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Many developers choose to use service oriented techniques to break large systems into smaller, loosely coupled services. Frequently, each service will be hosted on a different machine and use WS-* pro...

Using IP Restrictions with URL Rewrite-Week 25

Scott Forsyths WebLog, June 21, 2011
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URL Rewrite offers tremendous flexibility for customizing rules to your environment. One area of functionality that is often desired for URL Rewrite is to allow a large list of approved or denied IP a...

Why You Shouldnt Use Web Gardens in IIS-Week 24

Scott Forsyths WebLog, June 13, 2011
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IISs Web Gardens are a highly misunderstood feature in IIS ever since they were first introduced in IIS 6.0. This weeks lesson discusses why its rarely worth using Web Gardens and why using them is of...

A few reading resources for securing your IIS server.

MS-Joe, June 9, 2011
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Resources for securing Internet Information Services http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282060 Security Guidance for IIS http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd450371(WS.10).aspx Chapter 16 Securi...

Securing IIS. Thwarting the Hacker-Week 23

Scott Forsyths WebLog, June 6, 2011
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This week's video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server.  Securing IIS is a necessary step that every web administrator needs to perform to properly prepare their we...

IISs ApplicationPoolIdentity Made Easy-Week 22

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 30, 2011
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Managing Windows users for IIS security can sometimes be a pain and, if not handled correctly, can leave your server vulnerable. In this weeks video I introduce the new ApplicationPoolIdentity account...

IIS 7.0/7.5s Hidden Tool. Run-time page request performance data-Week 21

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 23, 2011
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Black box troubleshooting is very difficult.  What I mean by that, is that if you cant see whats happening, its extra difficult to troubleshoot.  For us administrators, or developers needing...

Process Monitor Made Easy-Week 20

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 15, 2011
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Every trade has their favorite tool, whether it be a hammer, calculator, or stethoscope.  For me, one of my top tools is Process Monitor.  I use it like a handy man uses duct tape.  Wit...

Mastering IIS - Understanding the Schema-Week 19

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 8, 2011
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IIS is a powerful web platform, and since version 7.0 everything, absolutely everything, is backed by a schema.  This defines the settings, defaults and value ranges that IIS uses. This means th...

Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x

Rick Strahls WebLog, May 5, 2011
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IIS 7 improves internal compression functionality dramatically making it much easier than previous version to take advantage of compression thats built-in to the Web server. Unlike IIS 6 which support...

Hacking IISs AppHost Directly-Week 18

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 2, 2011
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Last week I covered IIS 7(.5)s distributed and delegated configuration system.  This week Ill take it a step further and look specifically at editing applicationHost.config in a text editor (e.g....