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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 the same on IIS 7 and IIS 7.5. Here is a step...

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 work. Here is the scenario: I am using Win...

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 ASP.NET settings from IIS Manager. Application...

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 of monitoring tool which is web based or some application...

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 compression and frankly it’s pretty simple. Here is...

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. Here is a very good knowledge base article Article...

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 you don't install both legacy FTP (seen...

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 there is no IISADMIN service for Default Installation...