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Who knows! You may be missing these points for Kerberos authentication failures for Web applications...

I am sharing here some of the general + elusive + ignored + must-have info that you may want to recheck when you are troubleshooting a kerberos cum delegation failure scenario and feel like reaching nowhere near the end of the tunnel (resolution!). These Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:11 AM by Saurabh Singh | 1 Comments

My IIS 6.0 Mobile Manager - Manage your Web Sites, application Pools through mobile device from anywhere...

In May this year I had written a Web application using which we can manage basic IIS settings through Web browser from anywhere. Here is another application which I feel brings in more convenience to the end user (meant for Web administrators) since one Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 24, 2008 3:13 AM by Saurabh Singh | 0 Comments
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Some tips if your IIS 6.0 World Wide Web Service (WWW) ever goes down...

Well, every time I try writing some thing different than IIS and for some reason I come back to it :-) Here is a quick troubleshooting tip for a scenario where World Wide Web service on my test IIS 6.0 box went down for no apparent reason. Here is what Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 4:09 PM by Saurabh Singh | 4 Comments

SSL Troubleshooting for IIS Web Sites contd...

Recently a colleague of mine was working on a customer's case which was a Critical level incident. High pressure job, huhh! The issue was with SSL not working for one of their web sites. They were seeing "Page cannot be displayed" when trying to access Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:05 AM by Saurabh Singh | 7 Comments
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My IIS 6.0 Web Manager - Manage your Web Sites, Application Pools from any where on the Web.

A Web administrator has to have access to the IIS server in order to ensure that any diagnostic/preventive measures can be performed at any point of time. One has to ensure all the web sites are running up and fine during the course of a day. Activities Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:47 AM by Saurabh Singh | 9 Comments
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Change in IIS MMC setting may cause unwanted restarts of W3SVC

Recently we have discovered an issue with IIS Manager wherein changing settings in a certain way may cause unexpected restart of World wide Web Publishing Service. And this may happen before you realize until you go back to the Application event log and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:31 PM by Saurabh Singh | 4 Comments
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IIS ASP.Net Developer Support Group comes with its own Weblog

Recently we have come up with a dedicated blog site for IIS support group. Our aim is to include topics which will be of relevance to end users with regard to troubleshooting, and technical readiness for IIS ASP.Net including the latest in offering i.e. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:15 AM by Saurabh Singh | 1 Comments
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Unable to access IIsCertMapper object through ADSI

Today, I was working on an issue where we were trying to add mapping for client certificate for a windows account using ADSI and VBScript. Something similar as below: <% Dim CertObj, vCert vCert = Request.ClientCertificate("CERTIFICATE") Set CertObj Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:10 AM by Saurabh Singh | 7 Comments

Enabling Active Directory Isolation mode for FTP to work for trusted domain users

Let's consider a scenario wherein we have an FTP site hosted on an IIS Server and we are trying to setup the site to work in Active Directory (AD) Isolation mode. Now things should work just fine if we have the setup done properly. I have talked about Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:34 AM by Saurabh Singh | 1 Comments
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HTTP to HTTPS (SSL) Web Request Redirection

We often get requests from our customers asking how they can seamlessly redirect web requests from HTTP to HTTPS, i.e. how they can redirect a non-SSL request to an SSL based request. Recently a colleague of mine got a similar issue and we decided to Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:47 PM by Saurabh Singh | 5 Comments
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Certificate Trust List not being honored by IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0?

Something one should be aware of if one is dealing with Client certificate and assuming Certificate Trust List (CTL) will limit the list of Trusted Certificate Authorities (CA's) being sent to the client during the initial SSL handshake. In IIS 5.0 Post Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:36 PM by Saurabh Singh | 5 Comments
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Wildcard SSL certificate in IIS 6.0, Windows 2003 Sp1 and above

Here I will be talking about configuring SSL wildcard certificates in IIS 6.0 on Win2k3 SP1 and above. You may have a scenario wherein you want to have the same certificate installed for multiple Websites. Now in a normal scenarios this is not possible. Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 17, 2007 4:12 AM by Saurabh Singh | 36 Comments
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Troubleshooting FTP related issues on IIS 6.0

Troubleshooting FTP related issues on IIS can be a real pain. If you have not encountered so far you are lucky:-) What I do generally is to create a new FTP site and make it to work rather than working on the already corrupted site. It depends on your Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:28 PM by Saurabh Singh | 4 Comments
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Troubleshooting SSL related issues with IIS

In this post I am going to discuss troubleshooting SSL server certificate related issues in IIS. Please remember I am no SSL expert...I am an IIS Asp.Net guy and will discuss issues with regard to SSL with IIS. We have seen a lot many times that the issues Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:52 PM by Saurabh Singh | 28 Comments
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How to achieve a feature similar to single logon for multiple web applications using Basic authentication

Here is something which I recently figured out. This may be very simple to many but thought of sharing it for a wider audience. Let's say you have two ASP.Net web applications running on two different servers. Now, assuming you have a constraint wherein Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:23 PM by Saurabh Singh | 3 Comments
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