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May 2006 - Posts

Eurotrip. Back in Early June

Well, it is time for me to take a vacation . For the next three weeks, I will be intentionally disconnected from technology and touring through a north/central Europe. Oh, yes, I need the break to disconnect and re-center myself. I have not done that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 6:00 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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IIS and Email?

Ok, this question simply dumbstruck me with its improper assumptions that I felt necessary to respond... Question: Hi, I just started working at a new startup company that does all their email via an IIS server, POPing into outlook express. I would really Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 14, 2006 5:30 AM by Anonymous | 18 Comments
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HOWTO: Useful ASP page to retrieve Request and send Response Headers

I am finishing up on the series of ASP pages that show how to: Send Responses of arbitrary Status Code Send Responses with arbitrary types of Entity Body Send Responses with arbitrary Headers (this entry) Query Request Headers (this entry) You know, the Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 14, 2006 12:30 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments

Perspectives on Design and Support

I started typing this as a response to this blog entry and then decided that I was investing a little too much of myself into the response... so here goes. The original question was about "how to install Virtual Server, install its VSWebApp.exe component, Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 13, 2006 1:42 PM by Anonymous | 1 Comments
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Taxonomy of a Product Team's Roles at Microsoft

I started posting this as a blog response elsewhere, and then I decided that I was having way too much fun composing it to leave it stranded as a mere comment... so here is my take on Product Team Roles at Microsoft. Yes, read it with a grain of salt, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 11:40 PM by Anonymous | 1 Comments
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Office Automation and IIS

Every once in a while, I see users asking about how to automate Office applications on the server, either to create a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, or Powerpoint slidedeck. I understand the noble intentions to re-leverage the functionality of Office Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:50 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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HOWTO: Access POST form data with ISAPI

This is a frequently asked question about IIS6 extensibility - how to access the request entity body on the way in - as well as how to configure IIS. Question: I want to catch all incoming requests, add some header and watch it when its out. Therefore Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:47 PM by Anonymous | 3 Comments

Thoughts on Delegating IIS Configuration and Administration

Question I am running IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 Server. our web developers needed to create or edit websites, for security reasons I cannot simply give them admin rights or the password to the admin account. I have created an account for them to logon remotely Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:56 PM by Anonymous | 11 Comments

HOWTO: Useful ASP page to return configurable HTTP Status codes

Sometimes, you just want a simple test page on IIS to do some automated testing of your code that interacts with IIS. Here is another useful one in the series. Question: Hi, I have some negative testing therefore need to have IIS to return 403, 404 or Read More...
Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 11:45 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments

Java Applets and IIS

Question: Hi, I'm involved with supporting a web application on IIS. Part of that application involves a Java applet, which runs fine. My problem is this: if Java is not installed on the client machine, the browser automatically downloads and installs Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:49 AM by Anonymous | 1 Comments
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HOWTO: Rename the Computer running IIS6

Question: Hi , I have two web servers. One web server(w2k3Ent) and IIS 6.0 in a work group and One identical Web Server in the Domain. I want to now rename the Server names of the both, to comply some policy. Will the IIS functionality be affected because Read More...
Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 2:30 AM by Anonymous | 7 Comments
 
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