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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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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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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
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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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Hotfix - After installing MS07-045 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer - CreateObject call fails with 8000ffff

I had reported an issue which happens after installing MS07-045 IE security update. "After installing MS07-045 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer - CreateObject call fails with 8000ffff " We have a hotfix available for the same and it's
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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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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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After installing MS07-045 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer - CreateObject call fails with 8000ffff

We have noticed an issue of CreateObject call failure after installing MS07-045 IE update. This issues goes away if you uninstall the patch. As per the information available it's happening only when .NET managed component (using interop) is called from
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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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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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MSN Cartoon Beta (cool way to create smiley's from photos)

Recently I stumbled upon a discussion on facial recognition and creating models from them. Came to know that MSN China had lunched a service called "MSN Cartoon Beta". Chinese is like French to me; I know neither :) But I thought it would be an awesome
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How to reuse contacts from Live Messenger in Vista?

Assume that you have a lot of contacts on Live Messenger which you would like to use in different applications provided in Vista. By default you won't have direct access to contact due to security settings (encryption) to protect that information. There
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Understanding Vector Graphics

During multimedia era (Windows 3.1 to Windows 95) I had conducted several talks on different elements of multimedia and vector graphics was one of them. Explanation provided below is tweaked to make sure everyone can understand easily. What does this
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Creating video of your cool application

I have seen people using a number of tools to create screen captures of thier cool application for demos, blogs posting on video sites etc... I have been using this tool for a long time, but it's existense is unknown to many. So here are the details Windows
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What is Windows Vista Sideshow?

I read a lot of news and comments about Windows Vista Sideshow. Several comments are in the lines of saying... hmmm what is the big deal about this new feature? Why would I need a small display on my laptop to see my meeting room or tasks, I already have
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