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February 2009 - Posts

401.1 – Unauthorized, using Anonymous access (IUSR account)

Just recently I was working on an issue were the customer was getting 401.1 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. The authentication method used on the website was Anonymous access. I checked the Default Web Site and that is working

Rename files using PowerShell ‘a one liner’

Back to PowerShell today! I had few files to be renamed and they were about 500 odd of them. Renaming each and every file by hand would be a real pain. I thought of writing a PowerShell one liner to get this thing done and to my surprise it did my job
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*Unknown* status for ISAPI Filter

Hello All, I have seen this issue on IIS 6 a number of times and thought of sharing it with all. How many times have you seen the below screenshot in the ISAPI Filter tab in IIS MMC ? Well I reproduced this issue with UrlScan for everybody's benefit but
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HTTP COMPRESSION in IIS 6 and IIS 7 using Service Account

I have come across few issues on HTTP Compression in IIS 6 and thought I will quickly post it across for everyone’s benefit. Enterprises prefer to compress their Static and Dynamic web content to save bandwidth. There are articles on how to enable compression

MachineKey in IIS

Today I thought of playing around with IIS MachineKeys. We have seen few issues with IIS Admin Service not starting and few events in System Event log like one below: Source: Service Control Manager Event ID: 7024 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords:
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PowerShell ExecutionPolicy and Win7

In my previous post I faced a problem on executing a script in PowerShell. I just blindly ran the command as shown below and got my work done. This is not a good practice, neither in Development nor in Production. I quickly changed it to the recommended
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