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...