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Controlling network packet size from IIS/ASP.Net?

I got this question about response packet size control... Question: Running a web app - native .NET. 2003 for server. Reports come out as garhugic (66K) packets in testing. Is there a way to control max packet size from within .NET at the program level Read More...
Posted Friday, July 29, 2005 11:46 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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Random thoughts while unwinding down...

Lately, IIS7 has taken a disproportionate amount of my attention, so now that the milestone has been reached, I finally have a chance to unwind my mind. My thoughts are going to be a bit random for a while (at least to me it seems so). But, do not be Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:53 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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IIS7. In the books

Ok, it is official now. Milestone complete for IIS7. Time for us to celebrate and break out the bubbly... I should have checked one last time before this post . Back at TechEd 2005 in Orlando, some of you may have noticed an older build of IIS7 running Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:33 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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IIS7. First Major Milestone

A large chunk of my past seven days has been spent on doing all I can to ensure that IIS7 reaches its first major milestone enroute to shipping in Longhorn Server (or whatever it will be called - Vista Server? Nah. ;-) ). Several of us easily put in personal Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:56 PM by Anonymous | 10 Comments
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Why use Virtual PC or Virtual Server?

One of the popular comparisons of Virtual Machine technologies is Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server (the other being Virtual Server vs. VMWare GSX/ESX). I decided to tackle the Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server comparison with a little brain dump. This is purely Read More...
Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:46 AM by Anonymous | 23 Comments

The original MSKB555372

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Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 5:59 AM by Anonymous | (Comments Off)

HOWTO: Help Me Help You

The following url gives some sage advice to anyone thinking of asking a question in a public forum... Go ahead, read it. It's a KB article on Microsoft.com. It's found on the Internet. It must be true! Well, in this case, I think that this link is telling Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:39 AM by Anonymous | 23 Comments
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HOWTO: Kickoff. Wait for Asynchronous Virtual Server Task Completion

Ok, lately I have been very busy with IIS7 related milestones, so I am a little drained mentally. Thus, I will talk about a "simpler" topic that should still be useful useful... just not as much prep work for me... Virtual Server. :-) This will be the Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:06 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Daily Technical Blog Entry... is it still possible?

Almost two weeks ago, I contemplated about the possibility of making a "technical" post daily... because I was just starting on my blog and really needed to find a good rhythm. Well, now I have my conclusion (more on that later). I knew that if I did Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:57 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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Why URLScan ignores the querystring for DenyUrlSequences

Users frequently want to use URLScan's DenyUrlSequences feature to scan the incoming URL, including querystring, and reject based on various arbitrary criteria, such as potential SQL injection characters, banned characters for directories/files, etc. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 11:59 PM by Anonymous | 16 Comments
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HOWTO: Work around SendRawData quirk of httpd.dll on Windows CE

This is actually a question about the HTTP Server in Windows CE , which actually has nothing to do with IIS because it is not even the same code base. So, the server's behavior can be different from IIS (and in this case, I would say that it is very different Read More...
Posted Friday, July 15, 2005 5:30 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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HOWTO: Diagnose 401.x HTTP errors on IIS

One of the most common questions asked about IIS on the newsgroups as well as Microsoft Product Support is "why am I getting 401 Access Denied"? There are many, many possible causes and variations, but from the IIS perspective, the top-level, logical Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:58 PM by Anonymous | 83 Comments

HOWTO: Enumerate IIS website configuration (VBScript using ADSI)

A powerful but often under-utilized and misunderstood feature of IIS is its programmatic configuration APIs. On the one hand, all IIS administrative APIs allow programmatic, automated, and unattend configuration of IIS. On the other hand, it can be hard Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:35 PM by Anonymous | 71 Comments

IIS 6 prefixing paths with \\?\

One of the most fundamental security changes in IIS6 appends \\?\ to all filesystem access by IIS. This is supposed to be fairly transparent, but... Question: Dear comrades: I have a cgi executable program that has worked just fine under W2000 Server. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:30 PM by Anonymous | 16 Comments
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HOWTO: Deny direct access to resources using Referer based authentication

People frequently ask about the "Referer Authentication" custom protocol that Apache offers with a custom module. Yes, it is doable on IIS as well -- if you have the custom module. Question: Hi there. Since you a very good in IIS, i need your help. How Read More...
Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 5:45 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments

HOWTO: Allow file downloads (including .exe) on IIS 6.0

Variations of this question are asked of IIS 6 all the time. However, the answer is no different than for any other version of IIS other than the fact that IIS 6 gives you a distinct error code to troubleshoot. What is not clear to me is why users think Read More...
Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 4:17 PM by Anonymous | 127 Comments
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HOWTO: Search and Replace any IIS metabase property value automatically

I found this interesting question on the newsgroup, and came up with a fast code example to illustrate how much one can do with simple batch scripting and existing IIS commandline tools. Question: I know in IIS6 you can do a Search and Replace quite easily Read More...
Posted Friday, July 08, 2005 6:55 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments

Daily Technical Blog Entry... is it possible?

Ok, I am trying very hard to crank out at least one blog entry every day this work week. Yes, I have a little pipeline of blog entry topics stashed away on this Community Server right now, and as the questions come to me, I add them to the list, and then Read More...
Posted Friday, July 08, 2005 2:30 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments
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HOWTO: Use the HTTP.SYS Kernel Mode Response Cache with IIS 6

Motivation One of the bigger buzz-word features of IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 is the "HTTP.SYS Kernel Mode Response Cache". When you do a search against "HTTP.SYS Kernel Response Cache IIS 6", you will inevitably find a large body of literature repeatedly Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:58 PM by Anonymous | 39 Comments

SSO ISAPI Considerations, Part 2

The following question concerning SSO and ISAPI was posted in the ISAPI-DEV newsgroup. This sort of question for SSO happens all the time, but the answer is pretty much the same - use Kerberos (either within Windows or some other Kerberos system), or Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:50 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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HOWTO: Use Relative Links to Develop Web Applications on Windows Professional SKU and Publish as Websites on Server SKU

HOWTO Use Relative Links to Develop Web Applications on Windows Professional SKU and Publish as Websites on Server SKU Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:15 PM by Anonymous | 1 Comments

Why do I still get a user/password Login prompt with Integrate Authentication (for Virtual server 2005 Administration website)

When Integrated Authentication is enabled, users frequently wonder why they are still prompted for username/password. After all, isn't Integrated Authentication supposed to get rid of that? Thus, the following question has come up several times when users Read More...
Posted Monday, July 04, 2005 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 28 Comments

HOWTO: ISAPI Filter which rejects requests from SF_NOTIFY_PREPROC_HEADERS based on HTTP Referer

There was a recent question about how to reject requests (based on the HTTP Referer header in this case) in SF_NOTIFY_PREPROC_HEADERS. Question: Hello everyone, I'm trying to solve a problem of referer spam: People will fake requests to the web server Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 11:03 PM by Anonymous | 30 Comments
 
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