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Just recently one of my customer faced the below mentioned error on his Windows Server 2008 SP2 box. Read my post in our team blog on the issue: Parser Error Message: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic...

I saw this topic floating around for few days and since it’s very interesting I thought of blogging it for everybody’s benefit. If you haven’t heard about Blind Drop FTP have a look at this blog Creating a Blind Drop FTP Server . I thought of testing...

Sometime back my friend had a weird issue on his machine. He was working on his WCF application and as per his requirement he ran some command which brought his IIS down. So, to resolve the issue he reinstalled IIS and now his WCF application won’t...

Just recently I came across an issue where customer was using appcmd.exe to make changes to the Application Settings and Configuration Settings he had made using IIS Manager. I am using Application Settings for this post but it holds true for all the...

Just recently I came across an issue where a customer wanted to migrate websites from IIS 5 to IIS 6. The best and recommended option is to use “ Internet Information Services 6.0 Migration Tool ”. But there are a few limitations in using the Migration...

Sometime back I was working on an incident with a customer who was facing an issue when trying to access his application on Windows Server 2008. I will reproduce the issue using Apache for everyone’s benefit. If you have a server that has some kind...

Just recently I was working on an issue were the customer was getting 401.1 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. The authentication method used on the website was Anonymous access. I checked the Default Web Site and that is...

Back to PowerShell today! I had few files to be renamed and they were about 500 odd of them. Renaming each and every file by hand would be a real pain. I thought of writing a PowerShell one liner to get this thing done and to my surprise it did my job...

Hello All, I have seen this issue on IIS 6 a number of times and thought of sharing it with all. How many times have you seen the below screenshot in the ISAPI Filter tab in IIS MMC ? Well I reproduced this issue with UrlScan for everybody...

I have come across few issues on HTTP Compression in IIS 6 and thought I will quickly post it across for everyone’s benefit. Enterprises prefer to compress their Static and Dynamic web content to save bandwidth. There are articles on how to enable...

Today I thought of playing around with IIS MachineKeys. We have seen few issues with IIS Admin Service not starting and few events in System Event log like one below: Source: Service Control Manager Event ID: 7024 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords...

In my previous post I faced a problem on executing a script in PowerShell. I just blindly ran the command as shown below and got my work done. This is not a good practice, neither in Development nor in Production. I quickly changed it to the recommended...

I am learning PowerShell and with all the video’s I saw I must say I am impressed. I have subscribed to the internal discussion group and the PowerShell team blog link. Join me in my journey of exploring this new and powerful technology. I took a script...

I have seen this issue several times and thought I would blog about it for everyone’s benefit. Enterprises have their preference of restricting their website to a particular cryptographic protocol/algorithm and hence would like to disable other. ...

Just recently I came across an issue where the customer said they don’t see IIS logs giving enough information. It’s not logging data as it should. Sounds weird isn’t it, Yes it does but that was true. We did not see any logs getting generated even...

Here is an interesting case which I worked on sometime back. This is something related to HTTP.SYS and I believe it is probably a bug. Customer installed SP2 for Windows Server 2003 and since then his application failed. In HTTPErr logfile we...

Hello All, Just recently I came across an issue on the new FTP 7 (also known as Out Of Band FTP 7) You can download the FTP 7 from Microsoft FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 (x86) or Microsoft FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 (x64) . It is recommended...

Hello All, I have been thinking on writing few Step-by-Step articles for Kerberos Setup and Troubleshooting. There are few basic things we should remember when configuring Kerberos authentication in Windows network. Lets quickly get started with...

SCENARIO: IIS SERVER : WIN2K3OWA (192.168.0.2) and VIVEKKUMIIS (192.168.0.3) NLB CLUSTER : TESTWEBLB (192.168.0.30) FILE SERVER : WIN2KIIS-VPC (192.168.0.4) DOMAIN : ANJANEYA.local (192.168.0.1) ...

Just recently, before writing my UI Module to Start, Stop and Restart IIS. I came across an issue where I could not connect VS 2008 to my local IIS server. I was running VS 2008 as an Administrator. From Windows Server 2008 and Vista, inclusive SP1...

Hello All, Just recently I came across an incident on which a customer saw the following exception in his Application Event Log: Event Type: Warning Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Event Category: Web Event Event ID: 1309 Description: Event...