21 November 2008
FTP changes not taking effect in IIS 7.0?
I was working on an FTP issue the other day on IIS 7.0 and I missed something very basic which could have resolved my issue way back had I noticed the nuances of this new model. Normally people tend to go ahead with restarting IIS services for some changes Read More...
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16 November 2008
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...
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25 October 2008
Programmatically managing Virtual Server using C#
Virtual Server 2005 (VS2005) is a well-known tool to manage Virtual Machines (VMs) on a host server. It is a great feature to manage virtualization for hardware/software. Most often one would use the VS2005 Web Admin interface to manage VMs. But at times Read More...
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30 August 2008
Troubleshooting TS Gateway connectivity on Windows 2008, IIS 7.0
Here is something which is not my domain but had to learn the hard way. I recently encountered an issue while enabling Terminal Services Gateway (TSG) on Windows 2008 server. TSG is coupled with IIS 7.0 hosted on Windows 2k8 server and that's how I came Read More...
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24 August 2008
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...
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25 July 2008
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...
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06 June 2008
Case Study: Much ado about Browser's HTTP connection
Here I will be going in-depth on how a browser maintains HTTP connections with the Server. Something which a Web Developer should be aware of. My main aim is to show some of the tidbits of how a connection is made, how it is reset (from client or server) Read More...
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27 May 2008
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...
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14 May 2008
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...
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22 April 2008
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...
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15 April 2008
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...
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03 April 2008
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...
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13 March 2008
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...
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27 February 2008
Unable to correctly display Chinese (Unicode) characters in Excel when opened through ASP.Net page
Recently I was working on an issue wherein one of our customers was trying to stream data from their web application in CSV format for it to be recognizable and opened through Excel on the client's end. Basically they were setting content-type and content-disposition Read More...
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03 January 2008
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...
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