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free pop3 for Windows 2012 Server

Hannes Preishuber, May 6, 2013
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Our team develops tools for Windows Server. Fifteen years ago we started with a pop3 queuing (popConnect) tool. We offer a free extender for the IIS SMTP Service to support pop3.   &nbs...

Consuming AJAX-Enabled WCF Services from both Client and Server

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 17, 2013
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This is a simple example of an Ajax-Enabled WCF Service (hosted in IIS) that can be consumed by both client-side and server-side code....

Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?

Scott Forsyths WebLog, April 6, 2013
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Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. Ive always been a bit curious where that defau...

WebAPI Tip #7: Beautiful Message Handlers

K. Scott Allen, April 4, 2013
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The WebAPI framework is full of abstractions. There are controllers, filter providers, model validators, and many other components that form the plumbing of the framework. However, there are only thre...

Taking an Orchard site offline while you update it

More Whidbey stuff, March 12, 2013
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If your hosted environment does not give you a staging site and the means to swap it easily with the production environment like Azure Cloud Services do, or if you dont have a staging database, or if ...

How to install SSL in ASP.NET website via IIS Express

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 12, 2013
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With this walkthrough Information, any one can easily implement SSL certificate in .NET through the IIS Express....

A Beginner's Tutorial on How to Host a WCF Service (IIS Hosting and Self Hosting)

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 22, 2013
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In this article we will see how we can host a WCF service(IIS Hosting and Self Hosting)....

Debugging PainEnd to End

Glavs Blog, February 20, 2013
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We had an issue recently that caused us some time and quite a lot of head scratching. We had made some relatively minor changes to our product and performed a release into staging for testing. We rele...

Using WebDAV with ARR

Scott Forsyths WebLog, January 29, 2013
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Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. Im a big fan and have written often about it. I had someone ask me this week about WebDAV support fo...

Handing MVC paths with dots in the path

Scott Forsyths WebLog, January 16, 2013
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A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project.  The path looked something like this: http://domain.com/aspnet/CLR4.0 The MVC routes ...

(413) Request Entity Too Large

The Code Project Latest Articles, January 8, 2013
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Recently I worked with a WCF web service which is hosted in IIS7, and I used one of the service methods to send a byte array which contains a picture. This works well with small size images, but when ...

Windows 8 Live Accounts and the actual Windows Account

Rick Strahls WebLog, November 20, 2012
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As if Windows Security wasn't confusing enough, in Windows 8 we get thrown yet another curve ball with Windows Live accounts to logon. When I set up my Windows 8 machine I originally set it up with a...

Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 13, 2012
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IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesnt have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed. However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Win...

Caveats with the runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests in IIS 7/8

Rick Strahls WebLog, October 26, 2012
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One of the nice enhancements in IIS 7 (and now 8) is the ability to be able to intercept non-managed - ie. non ASP.NET served - requests from within ASP.NET managed modules. This opened up a ton of ne...

A tiny Utility to recycle an IIS Application Pool

Rick Strahls WebLog, October 2, 2012
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In the last few weeks I've annoyingly been having problems with an area on my Web site. It's basically ancient articles that are using ASP classic pages and for reasons unknown ASP classic locks up on...

FastCGI .NET and ASP.NET self-hosting

The Code Project Latest Articles, October 1, 2012
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C# fastcgi protocol implementation. A good example on how to self-host your web application without the need of iis or mono, for example using Nginx on both Windows and Linux...

Dealing with combining a couple sites into one.

Patrick Santrys (aka wwwCoder) Blog, September 5, 2012
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So now that I consolidated wwwcoder.com into santry.com, one of the biggest issues is combining that content without giving folks a lot of 404 errors, and broken links. It's still a major work effort,...

A single file login page for asp.net

The Code Project Latest Articles, August 20, 2012
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Sometimes you might feel the need to simply protect a public directory on your webserver. Using IIS gives you several options to achieve this, but today we will discuss how to enable a simple login pa...

Application Pool identity and Directory Security in IIS6

The Code Project Latest Articles, August 18, 2012
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In today’s post I will describe different security settings of the application pool and the IIS6 directory. It’s not always easy to guess which permissions must be set on system folders an...

IIS security settings and different permission using installer class with custom action

The Code Project Latest Articles, August 14, 2012
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Setting IIS security type and user, accounts permissions using installer class and custom action...

Configuration Tips For ASP.NET MVC 4 on a Windows Azure Website

K. Scott Allen, August 7, 2012
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The new Windows Azure Website feature is easy to use. You can deploy an application by publishing from Visual Studio or by pushing code with git. There are a few extra configuration steps Ive found us...

IIS7, Global Themes, CSS Files and Subfolders

Scott on Writing, August 2, 2012
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Ran into an interesting and esoteric problem today when working with a client. This client had a legacy ASP.NET 2.0 application deployed on IIS6 that used global themes. First, a little background A ...

Fix: IIS and This page contains both secure and nonsecure items

WebLog of Ken Cox [MVP], July 19, 2012
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After moving a production site to use HTTPS exclusively (using the excellent IIS URL rewrite module), Internet Explorer 9 drove me nuts with the Security Information warning: This page contains both ...

Windows Authentication working from remote but not locally

Code Climber, June 28, 2012
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Lately Ive been playing with RavenDb, for building the website of the Web.NET Conference, and after first testing with the embedded db, I decided that it was better to go to server mode. So I followe...

Make Web Development Easier with IIS Express

The Code Project Latest Articles, June 4, 2012
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Drop the dead weight that is Cassini and run like the wind with the lightweight, powerful, and yet simple IIS Express. Learn how to easily test SSL, demo your site to coworkers, and much more with li...

Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 14, 2012
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Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it!  localtest.me (http://localtest.me) and *.localtest.me (http://something.localtest.me) If you ...

Google and Geo-location, CNDs, DNS Load Balancing-Week 50

Scott Forsyths WebLog, April 20, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. This week answers two Q&A questions from viewers. DNS Load Balancing and then some discussion and a walkthrough using Application Request Routing (ARR) for a C...

Using Log Parser to List All Blocked IP Requests

Scott on Writing, April 8, 2012
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In a recent project we needed to block a series of IP addresses from accessing our website. IIS makes this easy with its IPv4 Address and Domain Restrictions feature, which lets the webmaster specify ...

Whats new in IIS8, Perf, Indexing Service-Week 49

Scott Forsyths WebLog, March 27, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. After some delays in the publishing process week 49 is finally live.  This week I'm taking Q&A from viewers, starting with what's new in IIS8, a question ...

Debugging Node.js applications for Windows Azure

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), March 22, 2012
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In case you are developing a new web application with Node.js for Windows Azure, you might notice there is no easy way to debug the application unless you are developing in an integrated IDE like Clou...

Debugging Node.js applications for Windows Azure

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), March 22, 2012
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In case you are developing a new web application with Node.js for Windows Azure, you might notice there is no easy way to debug the application unless you are developing in an integrated IDE like Clou...

ASP.NET Web API and Simple Value Parameters from POSTed data

Rick Strahls WebLog, March 22, 2012
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In testing out various features of Web API I've found a few oddities in the way that the serialization is handled. These are probably not super common but they may throw you for a loop. Here's what I ...

Make IIS Express the Default for VS2010 Web Projects

Steven Smith, March 19, 2012
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Heres a quick tip that will help you leave Cassini in the past where it belongs.  If youre using VS2010 SP1, you can configure your IDE so that it will automatically choose IIS Express out of the...

It has been a long time since last post

CarlosAg Blog, March 16, 2012
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Wow, just realized that in the last 6 months Ive only had a chance to post 2 items and I think it is about time to start this going again. So why this much silence? Well, About 8 months ago a couple...

How to increase debugging idle time in Visual Studio configuring IIS

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 11, 2012
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Increase debugging idle time in visual studio configuring IIS...

Whats New in IIS 8

Scott Forsyths WebLog, March 1, 2012
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With the beta release of Windows Server 8 today, Internet Information server (IIS) 8 is available to the public for testing and even production workload testing.  Many system administrators have ...

Basic Authentication with the ASP.NET Membership API

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 22, 2012
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In this post well discuss how you can get IIS to use basic authentication against an ASP.NET Membership store....

IIS FTP Troubleshooting-Week 48

Scott Forsyths WebLog, February 21, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. This lesson covers ways to troubleshoot IIS FTP. When it works, it works well, but if you run into issues getting an FTP account working it can sometimes be diffic...

FTP Firewall Settings, Active vs. Passive, and FTPS Explicit vs. Implicit-Week 47

Scott Forsyths WebLog, February 13, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. Have you ever wondered what FTP Active mode or Passive mode means? Do you have a good understanding of the FTP data channel or control channel? It can be difficult...

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...