Due to the popularity of Windows 2008 Server Core I have seen frequently questions about how to configure SSL on IIS7 with only command-line. Since I wandered that path few months back I thought of putting this article/guide together. http://www.awesomeideas...

IIS7 Mobile Admin is a simple web application to administer IIS7 remotely using a mobile phone browser.  I provided few screenshots of IIS7 Mobile Admin in my previous blog post here http://www.awesomeideas.net/post/2008/03/04/IIS7-Mobile-Admin.aspx...

I wanted to introduce something I’ve been working during last couple of weekends. Yes you guessed it “ IIS7 Mobile Admin ” to show some love to our web server administrators who keeps our Web 2.0 world up and running! Ingredients IIS7 Hosted...

Hostable Web Core (known as HWC) is a new concept in IIS7 to host a website/webservice inside your own process. In short a smaller hosted version of IIS (an IIS7 express edition?). This is accomplished by making a LoadLibrary call to load hwebcore.dll...

I had reported an issue which happens after installing MS07-045 IE security update. "After installing MS07-045 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer - CreateObject call fails with 8000ffff " We have a hotfix available for the same and it...

Here is another featured moved to kernel mode. Yea it's Windows Authentication which is by default configured to run in kernel mode. To see the dialog right click on "Windows Authentication" and select "Advanced Settings..." This applies to Windows 2008...

There are so many things which has changed in IIS7 for the better and one of them is about the way SSL works. Although IIS6 allowed kernel mode SSL (starting with Windows 2003 SP1) that wasn't the default option. As far as I know (AFAIK) not many customers...

We have noticed an issue of CreateObject call failure after installing MS07-045 IE update. This issues goes away if you uninstall the patch. As per the information available it's happening only when .NET managed component (using interop) is called from...

Although the title says webserver certificates the script is not limited to webserver certificates only. This script is useful for admins to check expiry dates of server certificates and be prepared to renew or change them. In case if you have ideas...

I had written a sample to redirect all http traffic to https (secure) in September 2006 http://blogs.msdn.com/sukeshak/archive/2006/09/03/http2https.aspx In one of our internal discussion alias the question came up that this method does not work when...

Recently I stumbled upon a discussion on facial recognition and creating models from them. Came to know that MSN China had lunched a service called "MSN Cartoon Beta". Chinese is like French to me; I know neither :) But I thought it would be an awesome...

Assume that you have a lot of contacts on Live Messenger which you would like to use in different applications provided in Vista. By default you won't have direct access to contact due to security settings (encryption) to protect that information. There...

During multimedia era (Windows 3.1 to Windows 95) I had conducted several talks on different elements of multimedia and vector graphics was one of them. Explanation provided below is tweaked to make sure everyone can understand easily. What does this...

I have seen people using a number of tools to create screen captures of thier cool application for demos, blogs posting on video sites etc... I have been using this tool for a long time, but it's existense is unknown to many. So here are the details...

I read a lot of news and comments about Windows Vista Sideshow. Several comments are in the lines of saying... hmmm what is the big deal about this new feature? Why would I need a small display on my laptop to see my meeting room or tasks, I already have...

love cool stuff and this IE7 feature belongs to that category. IE7 has a search feature and you can add Search providers to enhance your usage. Initially when I saw the feature I used to wonder how is this tiny little box going to change the world of...

If you are excited about CardSpace and wants to dirty your hands with .NET 3.0 RC1 bits, you will realize that CardSpace samples are broken. What "broken" means here. All of those samples are meant to work with "Self Issued Cards". But due to change in...

I was thinking to write an HttpModule for IIS7 and wanted a simple, useful and easily understandable scenario. Working with IIS customers for last 3 years one of those common scenario came into my mind, Redirecting http traffic to https. Although this...

So what is Appcmd.exe? This is "one" command line tool to administer IIS7. In IIS6 several of admin task were done using several scattered VBS script files. This made it difficult to find out what script needs to be run for eg. to get list of worker...

I'm super excited to add this post to announce the release of IIS Community Portal - www.iis.net . To tell you, I've been waiting for it to be public so that I can blog about the site and open up on IIS7 features, tips & tricks. You might think...

Loads of IIS7 related stuff... DebugDiag : Introduction DebugDiag : Troubleshooting Process Crash DebugDiag : Troubleshooting Process Hang DebugDiag : Troubleshooting High Memory/Memory Leak Windbg Basics (Windows Debugging Tool) ...

Here is a glimpse of the new IIS7 UI from my Vista Ultimate Edition. Just keep in mind that there might be changes happening before the release and might look different. Again this is Vista (which means client version) and not the Server version. Click...

Before the boom of web and internet, HTTP was not so common is everyday life. When internet became more and more widely used, HTTP also grew in usage. Basic web server serves static HTML type contents and then was the era in which there came several...

Let us see how HTTP is extended to do more than serving static content. When we talk about Windows Platform & HTTP, Microsoft product which comes to the picture is IIS. In the early days (and early versions of IIS) HTTP was primarily used for...

Most of my interactions in the past with customers, web developers and some of my prior colleagues, I have found that a larger percentage of them don't have a good understanding of how HTTP protocol works. This could be due to various reasons; some of...