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Help! My Business Requirement: Security Vulnerability Needed

Ahh... such an innocuous requirement - "I want to allow my User to easily click on a link and directly install Software from a Web Page - without all the confusing IE security hoopla popping up and possibly failing to allow Installation if your Software Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:00 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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Silly Security Scans

One of my pet peeves is users running "Security Scanners" against their servers and treating the resulting report as Gospel... <mock> Oh my gosh, I have to fix all of these vulnerabilities in IIS6 that this report lists! Such an insecure piece of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:20 AM by Anonymous | 8 Comments
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If I had one wish for Remote Publishing to IIS...

The feedback from my first query really amazed me. It certainly helps to have real-life viewpoints as well different rationales... because we need to understand what is truly troubling you... not just the symptoms but the underlying cause. So, I am going Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:50 PM by Anonymous | 29 Comments
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On IIS Team Blogging, Part 2

Back in this blog entry , I mused about how nice it would be to have more bloggers from the IIS product team. One thing is for certain - the IIS team traditionally has never dialed up the volume when it comes to evangelizing what we are doing and its Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:58 PM by Anonymous | 14 Comments
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If I had one wish for IIS Scale Out...

Suppose I told you that you get to direct an IIS development "A" team to solve your issues with scaling out and managing a farm/cluster of IIS servers. What issue would be your top wish? Ok, you can give more than one, but you must prioritize and give Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:59 PM by Anonymous | 25 Comments
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Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache, Part 3

Ok... I'm sure the zealots will eventually come tar and feather me and distort the conversation I started in this blog entry , but I will risk it anyways... I dislike biased and incomplete rationales. Comment: I've worked with both and while I haven't Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:00 AM by Anonymous | 12 Comments
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IIS Diagnostics Toolkit January 2006 Released

After a six month delay (for the gory details, see this entry and this entry ), we finally released the updated version of the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit January 2006 on Friday the 13th on January 2006. Superstitions aside, it can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/iis/diagnostictools/default.mspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:40 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments

DebugDiag - The Saga to RTM, Continued

For the past several days, I have spent a lot of time mired in the very bureaucracy that I identified in this blog entry ... all for one reason - to get DebugDiag and the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit integrated and released. Yes, the Windows OOB process has Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 3 Comments
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Podcasting can be...

Fun, unless one is constantly tripping over one's words/phrases. I apologize. Most of the time when I talk about something I like, my brain feels like it is going at 120mph, racing through the details, while the mouth goes at a more pedestrian pace. Then, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:56 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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HOWTO: Pose Answerable Questions, My Top 10...

Today, I decided to do a sweep through my backlog of private blog comments which I have not yet composed a response to. There are about 120 comments going back six months in this state. Honestly, it is getting progressively harder for me to blog regularly Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:30 AM by Anonymous | 3 Comments

Putting on the Web Developer Hat...

The past week, I put on the classic "Web Developer" hat to do some heads down work, so blogging, writing replies back to blog-comments, and answering newsgroup posts has been a bit more sparse. Some of you are probably wonder why I am even doing web development Read More...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 15 Comments
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Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache, Part 2

I got some interesting comments on my prior blog post, and since I started typing out a big essay in response, I figured I should just blog and link it instead. :-) Question: Hello, i have subscription of Redmond magainze and wow i can't believe i still Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:15 PM by Anonymous | 12 Comments
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Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache

I got the following interesting question about IIS security and whether it was better to "protect" IIS with an Apache server in front of it. Hmm, let's take a step back and look at what is security... Question: Hey, I really like your blog. I was wondering Read More...
Posted Friday, September 30, 2005 4:10 AM by Anonymous | 8 Comments
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DebugDiag - The Saga to RTM

Ok, I am going to try something a little more dicey with this blog entry, but since I am very PO'd about the subject right now, here goes the fireworks... ;-) Some Context, Please... For the past several months, some of you have probably been hearing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:30 AM by Anonymous | 10 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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