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Today I thought I would walk through how to enable custom error pages in IIS 7/7.5. Custom error pages allow you to specify the content that you want to display to users when a specific HTTP error code is received. Its a powerful technique empowering...

I recently came across an interesting case, where the customer was in the process of migrating their content over to a new build of IIS 7.5. All was going well till they hit an issue when migrating their 1MB web.config file, where they received an error...

It is not an uncommon scenario to have a web farm of servers sitting behind a load balancer. In fact that is the only way you can achieve high availability so it is recommended.One issue that arises when this setup is used is when the user session needs...

We have seen quite a few instances where users are setting up a web farm using Web Farm Framework (WFF) behind a proxy. As WFF relies on getting the products from the internet through Web Platform Installer , and provisioning will fail if it can't reach...

FTP 7.5 has a feature that allows you to create a managed user account without requiring you to add a domain user. This user can be used as part of FTP access and also allow user isolation among directories. The purpose of this blog is to show you the...

The following blog post demonstrates how to use a self-signed digital certificate to sign a strong named assembly. Strong names guarantee name uniqueness by relying on unique key pairs. No one can generate the same assembly name that you can, because...

If a registry DWORD " DeleteFlag " is set to 00000001 for the FTP service (or any service ) on IIS6 server at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSFtpsvc] the service will be deleted on server restart. While this may be by design in...

Recently I came across an issue that I would like to share with everyone. We had a .net 3.5 web service hosted on IIS 7.0. We have configured it to accept a client certificate with a 1-to-1 mapping to a domain account. When presented with the cert...

Recently I came across issues where client certificate authentication was failing when calling a web service from ASP.net web application. Worked through the steps mentioned in the following articles but couldn’t identify the cause of issue....

I thought it might be useful to post a modified sample application that allows a user to test their asp uploads. It also feedbacks to the user if the "AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed" property value is insufficient for the file upload needs. You may want...

I was working on an issue where an exe built based on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383144(v=vs.85).aspx connects to a site hosted on Linux server. It uses NTLM authentication to authenticate against the squid proxy and gets...

Picture this scenario: You have a domain joined web server where you have an IIS hosted site that runs under the application pool identity. This application pool identity uses the machine account security principal. When you run "nltest.exe /sc_change_pwd...

Fix-it options available in KB 187498 are not applicable for 2008 R2 servers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187498 To fix this issue follow the steps given below: Set the follow registry value, and restart the server: Key: HKLM\SYSTEM...