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I ran into one of those strange situations the other day where you feel like you've been doing the same thing on your computer at some time in the distant past - kind of like déjà vu for geeks. In this specific case, I was moving some web sites that I
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One of the changes that we made in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 was to remove recursive directory listings, which are commonly retrieved by typing " ls -lR " from a command-line FTP client, which should send a command like " NLST -lR " over FTP to the server.
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I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I tend to write many of my blog posts and walkthroughs for IIS.NET based on code that I’ve written for myself, and today’s blog post is the story of how one of my samples saved my rear over this past weekend.
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Many years ago I wrote the following KB article: How To Schedule Metabase Backups Using WSH Truth be told, I wrote the script in that article to help me manage several servers that I controlled. Once I finished the script, I found myself routinely giving
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I had a great question from someone the other day about enabling WebDAV on IIS 6, so I wrote a simple Windows Script Host (WSH) utility that does the trick. Because I'm a firm believer that writing code for one person will ultimately benefit someone else,
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I had a great question in follow up to the " Secure, Simplified Web Publishing using Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 " webcast that I delivered the other day, "How you can you programmatically access the quota usage information from the File
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OK - I have to admit, when you realize that you are making software choices based on scripting language support you start to get the feeling that there are times when you just have to accept the fact that you are a geek. Here's a case in point: I write
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Around a year ago I wrote a blog entry titled " Converting NCSA log files to W3C format ", which showed how to use the MSWC.IISLog object to convert log files in the NCSA format back to W3C format. I wrote that blog entry to make up for the fact that
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I had a great question from a customer the other day: " How do you programmatically enumerate how many web sites on a server have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed? " Of course, that's one of those questions that sounds so simple at first, and
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Recently I had to work with a customer that was trying to use a 3rd-party utility that read W3C log files and it was failing to complete processing. I had the customer send me his log files, and upon examination I discovered that t he trouble was occuring
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One of my servers has a large number of individual web sites on it, and each of these web sites has several serveral server bindings for different IP addresses, Port Assignments, and Host Headers. As I continue to add more web sites on the server, it
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( Note : I had originally posted this information on a blog that I kept on http://weblogs.asp.net , but it makes more sense to post it here . [:)] ) Like many web programmers, I host several hobby web sites for fun. (They make a wonderful test bed for
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One of the great utilities that ships with IIS is the CONVLOG.EXE application, which converts W3C or MS Internet Standard log files to NCSA format, where they can be processed by any of the applications that only parse NCSA log file information. The trouble
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