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HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

Question: In brief, what is different about a virtual directory that is also set as a Web Application? I can have a virtual directory, and then optionally set it to be a Web Application. Beyond updating the metabase, what does IIS do that causes the virtual Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:24 AM by David.Wang | 7 Comments

HOWTO: PreCondition an ISAPI Extension DLL

Question: Hello We have a legacy x64 ISAPI extension that runs without problems in Win 2003 64bit - IIS 6.0. But in Win2008 EBS Security Manager setup, IIS 7.0 Default Application Pool's WOW64 / Enable32BitApp property is enabled by default, and this Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:00 PM by David.Wang | 2 Comments

HOWTO: Change IIS User Impersonation Token

Question: Hi, We are using our third party component for doing authentication and authorization with IIS6 web server on win2k3 X64 EE. Here we are using IMPERSONATION concept for this integration. Can anybody describe the required configuration which Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 12:30 AM by David.Wang | 1 Comments

HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

Question: I need to audit web servers in my domain, and would like to be able to connect to each server, and enumerate the virtual directories -- ultimately leading to a link to each web site hosted by the server. Can this code be modified to get that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:30 PM by David.Wang | 9 Comments

HOWTO: Basic Native/Managed Code Interop

IIS7 core extensibility model supports both native and managed code as first-class citizens. So, I feel it is time for a little refresher on managed/native code interop... starting with the more popular route of how to wrap native code API for use within Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:59 AM by Anonymous | 1 Comments

HOWTO: Convert between JScript Array and VB Safe Array

I recently got a question about how to manipulate the LIST data type within JScript since my sample code only illustrated VBScript. Well... one reason why that example is in VBScript is because LIST manipulation (a VB SafeArray) is more straight forward Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:10 AM by Anonymous | 11 Comments

HOWTO: Monitor Virtual Server Events

I think Virtual Server Events and Asynchronous Tasks are two of the least utilized features of the Virtual Server Administration API. Contrary to the often-asked task of "find the VM, turn it off, manipulate its VHD, then turn it back on", which shows Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:14 AM by Anonymous | 9 Comments

HOWTO: Diagnose One Cause of "%1 is not a valid Win32 application" on IIS6 on 64bit Windows

Question: I have a new development server that i put together on a Windows 2003 64 bit machine. I also have SQL Server 2005 and Developers Studio 2005 and 2003 installed on this machine. I have executed the "Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1" command, as per the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:10 AM by Anonymous | 7 Comments
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HOWTO: Install and Run PHP on IIS7, Part 3

A short while ago, I came out with a small script to properly configure PHP for IIS7. Sure enough, I got asked to make a similar one for IIS6. So, I figure that while I am at it, I might as well cover IIS4, IIS5, and IIS5.1 as well since it is not very Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:15 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments

HOWTO: Install and Run PHP on IIS7, Part 2

A couple of months ago, I wrote a quick and dirty entry on how to install PHP on IIS7. The main purpose of that entry was to explain the details of what was going on as well as cookie-cutter instructions of one way to successfully install PHP on IIS7. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:39 PM by Anonymous | 50 Comments

HOWTO: Enumerate IIS website and ftpsite configuration (VBScript using ADSI)

I recently got a request to make a script to illustrate how to enumerate useful values from both Web and FTP sites serviced by IIS, so I decided to make some additions to the original script tool located here to allow it to easily enumerate both Web and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:15 PM by Anonymous | 23 Comments

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

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

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

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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