January 2009 - Posts

20 January 2009
Metabase auditing on IIS 7.5

Metabase auditing is a very useful feature which allows us to track changes that are made to the IIS metabase. It was introduced with SP1 on Windows 2003 (IIS 6.0). When enabled information such as time and user account that made the change to the metabase Read More...

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14 January 2009
Report Viewer Toolbar does not render properly on IIS 7.0

I was recently working on a reporting web application that uses the Report Viewer ( ReportViewer ) control that ships with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The Report Viewer control was rendering perfectly when I was developing using Visual Studio Read More...

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Filed under: IIS, ASP.NET, SSRS

 

07 January 2009
What’s different about Kerberos Authentication on IIS 7.0

On IIS 6.0 if your web application ran under a custom user account you would have to setup Service Principal Names (SPNs) for that account. This detail is something that most users miss and as a result the authentication falls back to NTLM. The need for Read More...

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