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Service Principal Name (SPN) checklist for Kerberos authentication with IIS 7.0/7.5

This post is more about the confusion that may arise around SPNs for setting up Kerberos...

Author: Saur212 Date: 01/19/2009

“ASN1 bad tag value met” error when processing a certificate request in IIS 7

We’ve seen a few instances of the following error message on 64 bit servers when IIS 7.0 is...

Author: Christopher T. Haun Date: 01/03/2009

Removing an IIS server's IP address from HTTP responses

Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to discuss how to mask an IIS server’s IP address from...

Author: Mike Laing Date: 11/18/2008

IIS7 – ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2

If you are a Server Core fan, and wished you could host ASP.NET websites in Server Core, then feel...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/16/2008

Time vs. Time-Taken fields in IIS logging

Questions often arise pertaining to what the Time-Taken and Time fields are reporting in the IIS...

Author: Mike Laing Date: 11/13/2008

How to configure URLScan 3.0 to mitigate SQL Injection Attacks

The purpose of this blog post is to review the concept of SQL Injection attacks, to introduce...

Author: Mike Laing Date: 10/15/2008

Configuring IIS to work around webpage display issues in Internet Explorer 8.0

Special thanks to Sean Everhart for contributing this topic Internet Explorer 8.0 introduces a new...

Author: Mike Laing Date: 09/05/2008

IIS6 - Caching of UNC content: Reverting back to the Last-Modified Time method

As explained in the white paper on IIS and remote storage, IIS 6.0 offers two methods of file...

Author: Mike Laing Date: 08/05/2008

IIS7 – Backup Restore Module (updated for shared configuration backups)

Little back I wrote a sweet little IIS7 UI module for taking backup and restore of IIS...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/21/2008

IIS7 - UI Module for setting FTP Active Directory user isolation properties

In IIS6.0, you had IisFTP.vbs file which you would use to set msIIS-FTPRoot and msIIS-FTPDir...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/13/2008

IIS7 - Configure Throttling for your documents (any MIME type) and save Bandwidth costs

Do you have a high traffic site where you have a lot of WMV/AVI/FLV/PDF documents (or any other MIME...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/13/2008

IIS7 – Adding your UI extension to the IIS manager hierarchy

In the last post I was talking about writing a simple UI extension which would appear like below:...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/11/2008

IIS7 - Writing your first custom UI module with all winform controls

You should follow this article on IIS.net to create your first “simple” IIS7 UI extension which...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/09/2008

IIS 7.0 HTTP Error Pages

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 adds some significant new functionality to the manageability...

Author: Saur212 Date: 05/27/2008

A lightweight 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...

Author: Saur212 Date: 05/19/2008

Limiting Passive FTP Port Range on IIS 7.0 / IIS 6.0 / IIS 5.0

Passive FTP uses a range of ports to transfer data. This can be a problem because the port range...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/13/2008

Getting out the IP Address from System.Net.IPAddress

Ever try looking at the IP Address from this object? It isn’t very easy to see what the actual...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/29/2008

Looking at the finalization queue in the debugger

Want to see what objects you have added a finalizer too, follow the information here.

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/28/2008

Understanding when to use a Finalizer in your .NET class

If you are going to use a finalizer in your .NET class, be sure to read this post so that you...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/25/2008

Troubleshooting Anonymous authentication failures in IIS

We often get support calls on issues related to Anonymous authentication failures and this is...

Author: Saur212 Date: 04/25/2008

ASP.NET Tips: How to use DebugDiag to track down where a performance problem is coming from

Narrowing down a problem is sometimes the hardest part of troubleshooting. Learn how DebugDiag...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/25/2008

DelegConfig - A Tool To help resolve Kerberos authentication and delegation issues

Overview I wanted to create this blog to address one of the IIS Support teams top support issues....

Author: bretb Date: 04/25/2008

Visual Studio Designer not Respecting Assembly Binding

Another issue we discovered is around this. This is a rather specific situation, check out the...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/24/2008

Making an Asynchronous Call using the Impersonation Identity

Have you ever wanted to make an asynchronous call but use the credentials of the user that is...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/23/2008

Identifying a COM call that is blocking the GC and causing a memory leak

A new blog posting about this can be found here: ASP.NET Tips- How to identify a COM call that is...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/22/2008

ASP.NET Tab Missing

A common issue we see customers having is after installing ASP.NET 2.0, the ASP.NET Tab is missing...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/17/2008

How to configure IIS 7.0 for ODBC logging?

If you select Log File format as “Custom” in the IIS manager, it doesn’t give you...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/16/2008

Have a question? Submit it and get an answer

You can submit any question you have around .NET, IIS, or ASP.NET to me at my blog and I’ll answer...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/15/2008

ISSUE : SMTP Configuration - Unspecified Error

A new SMTP related issue has been brought to our notice and we are currently working on fixing it....

Author: Shinva Date: 04/14/2008

ASP.NET - Using the same encryption method used by ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider to encrypt secret password answer and store it in AD

Okay, this is an interesting stuff. MembershipProvider automatically encrypts most of the sensitive...

Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/11/2008

Enabling PasswordReset functionality when using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider

If you want to use ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider on your website to manage users specially the...