See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : http://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture So here is the first part of a three part video tutorial about IIS architecture, its components and how requests are executed inside the Microsoft IIS...

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : http://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture In part two of the video series I explore the inner workings of the worker process – w3wp.exe – which is the process that loads and executes...

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : http://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture In the final part of the video series I explore the request flow process for requests coming into IIS and aimed at ASP.net web pages. I look at how the...

Our team regularly handles incidents dealing with SSL certificates. During the verification process for client (or server) SSL certificates, we tend to rely on the certificate UI to check if a given certificate has a valid private key. While doing some...

Last month, I worked on an incident where a customer couldn't access a web site from Internet Explorer 9 using TLS 1.2. Accessing the same web site was working fine using TLS 1.0. I first thought the issue was similar to the one described in this blog...