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Monday, May 19, 2008 12:03 AM

How to configure SSL on IIS7 under Windows 2008 Server Core

Due to the popularity of Windows 2008 Server Core I have seen frequently questions about how to configure SSL on IIS7 with only command-line. Since I wandered that path few months back I thought of putting this article/guide together. http://www.awesomeideas.net/post/2008/05/18/How-to-configure-SSL-on-IIS7-under-Windows-2008-Server-Core.asp
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:30 AM

IIS7 Mobile Admin now on codeplex !!!

IIS7 Mobile Admin is a simple web application to administer IIS7 remotely using a mobile phone browser.  I provided few screenshots of IIS7 Mobile Admin in my previous blog post here http://www.awesomeideas.net/post/2008/03/04/IIS7-Mobile-Admin.aspx
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:37 AM

IIS7 Mobile Admin

I wanted to introduce something I’ve been working during last couple of weekends. Yes you guessed it “ IIS7 Mobile Admin ” to show some love to our web server administrators who keeps our Web 2.0 world up and running! Ingredients IIS7 Hosted Web core
Posted by sukeshak | 2 Comments
Monday, December 24, 2007 1:28 AM

IIS7 Hostable Web Core Custom Service (WebCoreService)

Hostable Web Core (known as HWC) is a new concept in IIS7 to host a website/webservice inside your own process. In short a smaller hosted version of IIS (an IIS7 express edition?). This is accomplished by making a LoadLibrary call to load hwebcore.dll
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:42 AM

Kernel mode authentication in IIS7

Here is another featured moved to kernel mode. Yea it's Windows Authentication which is by default configured to run in kernel mode. To see the dialog right click on "Windows Authentication" and select "Advanced Settings..." This applies to Windows 2008
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Monday, November 26, 2007 7:08 AM

Differences in SSL request/response flow on IIS6 vs IIS7 (Kernel mode SSL)

There are so many things which has changed in IIS7 for the better and one of them is about the way SSL works. Although IIS6 allowed kernel mode SSL (starting with Windows 2003 SP1) that wasn't the default option. As far as I know (AFAIK) not many customers
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:40 PM

How to Check certificate expiry for webserver (IIS) certificates using script

Although the title says webserver certificates the script is not limited to webserver certificates only. This script is useful for admins to check expiry dates of server certificates and be prepared to renew or change them. In case if you have ideas of
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:07 AM

Redirecting from http to https in IIS7 (http2https Updated)

I had written a sample to redirect all http traffic to https (secure) in September 2006 http://blogs.msdn.com/sukeshak/archive/2006/09/03/http2https.aspx In one of our internal discussion alias the question came up that this method does not work when
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Sunday, September 03, 2006 10:20 AM

Redirecting from http to https in IIS7

I was thinking to write an HttpModule for IIS7 and wanted a simple, useful and easily understandable scenario. Working with IIS customers for last 3 years one of those common scenario came into my mind, Redirecting http traffic to https. Although this
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:50 AM

ABC's of Appcmd (command line administration in IIS7)

So what is Appcmd.exe? This is "one" command line tool to administer IIS7. In IIS6 several of admin task were done using several scattered VBS script files. This made it difficult to find out what script needs to be run for eg. to get list of worker processes.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:35 PM

IIS Community Portal is here... !!!

I'm super excited to add this post to announce the release of IIS Community Portal - www.iis.net . To tell you, I've been waiting for it to be public so that I can blog about the site and open up on IIS7 features, tips & tricks. You might think why
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:26 AM

IIS7 Administration User Interface

Here is a glimpse of the new IIS7 UI from my Vista Ultimate Edition. Just keep in mind that there might be changes happening before the release and might look different. Again this is Vista (which means client version) and not the Server version. Click
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:43 PM

Evolution of HTTP on Windows Platform

Before the boom of web and internet, HTTP was not so common is everyday life. When internet became more and more widely used, HTTP also grew in usage. Basic web server serves static HTML type contents and then was the era in which there came several ways
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:33 PM

Back to Basics - HTTP/IIS (Part II)

Let us see how HTTP is extended to do more than serving static content. When we talk about Windows Platform & HTTP, Microsoft product which comes to the picture is IIS. In the early days (and early versions of IIS) HTTP was primarily used for hosting
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Saturday, May 06, 2006 3:49 AM

Back to Basics - HTTP (Part I)

Most of my interactions in the past with customers, web developers and some of my prior colleagues, I have found that a larger percentage of them don't have a good understanding of how HTTP protocol works. This could be due to various reasons; some of
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