25 July 2008
Some tips if your IIS 6.0 World Wide Web Service (WWW) ever goes down...
Well, every time I try writing some thing different than IIS and for some reason I come back to it :-) Here is a quick troubleshooting tip for a scenario where World Wide Web service on my test IIS 6.0 box went down for no apparent reason. Here is what Read More...
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06 June 2008
Case Study: Much ado about Browser's HTTP connection
Here I will be going in-depth on how a browser maintains HTTP connections with the Server. Something which a Web Developer should be aware of. My main aim is to show some of the tidbits of how a connection is made, how it is reset (from client or server) Read More...
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27 May 2008
SSL Troubleshooting for IIS Web Sites contd...
Recently a colleague of mine was working on a customer's case which was a Critical level incident. High pressure job, huhh! The issue was with SSL not working for one of their web sites. They were seeing "Page cannot be displayed" when trying to access Read More...
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14 May 2008
My IIS 6.0 Web Manager - Manage your Web Sites, Application Pools from any where on the Web.
A Web administrator has to have access to the IIS server in order to ensure that any diagnostic/preventive measures can be performed at any point of time. One has to ensure all the web sites are running up and fine during the course of a day. Activities Read More...
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22 April 2008
Change in IIS MMC setting may cause unwanted restarts of W3SVC
Recently we have discovered an issue with IIS Manager wherein changing settings in a certain way may cause unexpected restart of World wide Web Publishing Service. And this may happen before you realize until you go back to the Application event log and Read More...
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15 April 2008
IIS ASP.Net Developer Support Group comes with its own Weblog
Recently we have come up with a dedicated blog site for IIS support group. Our aim is to include topics which will be of relevance to end users with regard to troubleshooting, and technical readiness for IIS ASP.Net including the latest in offering i.e. Read More...
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03 April 2008
Unable to access IIsCertMapper object through ADSI
Today, I was working on an issue where we were trying to add mapping for client certificate for a windows account using ADSI and VBScript. Something similar as below: <% Dim CertObj, vCert vCert = Request.ClientCertificate("CERTIFICATE") Set CertObj Read More...
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13 March 2008
Enabling Active Directory Isolation mode for FTP to work for trusted domain users
Let's consider a scenario wherein we have an FTP site hosted on an IIS Server and we are trying to setup the site to work in Active Directory (AD) Isolation mode. Now things should work just fine if we have the setup done properly. I have talked about Read More...
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27 February 2008
Unable to correctly display Chinese (Unicode) characters in Excel when opened through ASP.Net page
Recently I was working on an issue wherein one of our customers was trying to stream data from their web application in CSV format for it to be recognizable and opened through Excel on the client's end. Basically they were setting content-type and content-disposition Read More...
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03 January 2008
HTTP to HTTPS (SSL) Web Request Redirection
We often get requests from our customers asking how they can seamlessly redirect web requests from HTTP to HTTPS, i.e. how they can redirect a non-SSL request to an SSL based request. Recently a colleague of mine got a similar issue and we decided to Read More...
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01 January 2008
New Year Resolution
I am writing this post on the 1st of January 2008. It's a brand new day and hopefully a brand new beginning with lots of hope, expectations and ambitions being carried over my lean shoulders. I have been seeing the same day and night everyday of my life, Read More...
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17 December 2007
My turn will get over too...
[Non Technical] Recently I got an extra responsibility to be an On-call engineer for IIS/ASP.Net support for one week apart from my daily work schedule. And I never realized what toll it can take on me until I took over it. Basically an On-Call engineer Read More...
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07 December 2007
Certificate Trust List not being honored by IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0?
Something one should be aware of if one is dealing with Client certificate and assuming Certificate Trust List (CTL) will limit the list of Trusted Certificate Authorities (CA's) being sent to the client during the initial SSL handshake. In IIS 5.0 Post Read More...
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28 November 2007
My IIS 7.0 Administration UI Extension Page
The UI extension option in IIS 7.0 is an exciting feature for any .Net developer. You can write your own custom UI pages and can add various features to it to manage IIS on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. I have written an UI extension and is attached Read More...
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24 November 2007
Accessing iis 7.0 features programmatically from configuration file(S) (C#)
IIS 7.0 has great features for developers now. It is integrated with .Net. UI has completely changed from the previous versions. It has entirely a new look and feel. I feel there would be a steep learning curve for IIS users, but nothing to worry, unlike Read More...
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