Rakki Muthukumar
my journey with microsoft technologies - IIS/ASP.NET/AJAX/C#/Javascript/IE
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
Live Mesh – Syncing your Windows Live Writer Drafts
The title explains all, I’m going to run you through a few simple steps which will make your life...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/15/2008
PDC2008 – day 2 – Awesome Office, Windows 7, Live Services, etc
Office 14 will have an online version – which can work seamlessly with the desktop version This is...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/28/2008
Windows Azure – useful links
The world is excited about Windows Azure, and here are few useful links for the same. I’ll add more...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/27/2008
IIS7 – How to set up logging to a remote UNC share?
First of all, let me tell you that there isn’t much changes to the logging done to IIS 7.0 compared...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/15/2008
ASP.NET 2.0 x64 – You may get HTTP 400 Bad Request or Error as mentioned in KB 932552 or 826437
I’m sure you already know about this fix for ASP.NET which fixes an issue of “not a valid path”...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/10/2008
Touchless – you gotta believe this!
This is an interesting piece of technology that amazed me first when I read about its release, and...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/08/2008
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta
If you are a web deployment guru, and looking to reduce your burden of downloading lot of software,...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/07/2008
IIS7 – Enabling Custom Error Pages
As the title sounds, here I’m going to discuss a very simple feature of IIS7 which has one...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/03/2008
How to uninstall IE8 Beta1 from Windows Server 2008?
I’m using IE8 Beta1 on my Windows Server 2008 (and still have IE7 on my Vista box which is my...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 08/27/2008
AppCmd syntax to add FTP IpV4 Address and Domain Restrictions
I just helped one of my customer writing a script which would add FTP IpV4 Address and Domain...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/31/2008
IIS – Rejecting a request from a specific client type(browser) | ISAPI Filter Example
Recently I’ve come across a discussion where a particular type of client request should be blocked....
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/23/2008
Getting “Unable to get the project file from the Web server” while opening a project in Visual Studio
I recently worked with a customer who was getting “Unable to get the project file from the Web...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/15/2008
Hyper-v | Manage from your Vista
There are number of reasons why I like Vista, and this adds to the list. I run WIN2K3 SP2 and...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/15/2008
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
IIS7 – Prevent the server sending its private IP address for a request made by HTTP/1.0 clients with no host header
Do you remember this problem earlier with IIS sending the server’s private address for a request...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/07/2008
Getting "Unable to step. The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed" while debugging in Visual Studio
Problem Description Getting below error messages while debugging an ASP.NET website in Visual Studio...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/07/2008
IIS7 - Command line tool (managed) to set FTP properties in Active Directory
You would have already seen this UI module of mine to set the FTP properties in Active Directory....
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/04/2008
IIS - Sample ISAPI Filter doing Redirection to another website
I know I'm in a very old world of writing ISAPI Filters to do the redirection instead of just...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/09/2008
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 options to...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/16/2008
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...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/11/2008
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: 04/04/2008
IIS7 - Administration Pack - technical preview released
Here are the links to download the new IIS7 admin pack - technical preview version: Administration...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/20/2008
IIS7 - Running ASP.NET 1.1 applications
There a lot of other articles available in iis.net which explains how to run an ASP.NET application...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/20/2008
AJAX - Calling PageMethods defined on a UserControl
I recently worked with one of my customer, asking for help to migrate his application to AJAX.NET....
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/20/2008
IIS 6.0 - Disabling ASP.NET on all virtual directories, but one?
One of my customer running IIS 6.0 had this special scenario where he would like to run ASP.NET 2.0...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/18/2008
IIS7 - Making IIS7 Manager UI Extension development easier - a little VS trick
When I started developing IIS7 Manager UI Extension modules, it took a little longer time for me to...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/05/2008
IIS7 - Kernel Mode Authentication
One of my customer was running into a kerberos issue on IIS 7.0. While working on this issue, I...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/04/2008
IIS7 - Interesting Fact - most wanted feature of Windows Server 2008
Mike Volodarsky, Program Manager of the IIS team has a nice link to share - a survey by...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 02/24/2008
IIS7 - RequestFiltering maxQueryString and maxUrl
If you are new to IIS7 and reading about the new RequestFiltering module, you might have some...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 02/24/2008
Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Technical Preview 1 available for download
Do you remember Scott Guthrie talking about a web deployment framework? Last November he gave a hint...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 01/27/2008
IIS7 - UI Module for setting FTP Active Directory user isolation properties
Okay, here is one more IIS7 UI module which would be used while using FTP server with Active...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/28/2007
IIS7 - making Forms Authentication to work for all the requests
If you were following all the news about IIS7, you would have heard that you can now plug-in ASP.NET...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/28/2007
IIS7 - Things to remember when using Web Management Service
IIS7 introduces the "Web Management Service" which lets the computer and the domain administrators...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/28/2007
IIS7 - Few things to be known and to be remembered
Thought of posting this blog entry which would give some changes that are in IIS7 compared to IIS6,...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/28/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 is now available
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 has shipped. You can download the .NET 3.5 from here. You can also...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/20/2007
IIS7 - IISRESET UI Module for IIS7 Manager (inetmgr)
In IIS7 (atleast till RC0 release), you might find no UI way to restart IIS services (IISAdmin, WAS,...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/06/2007
IIS7 - Backup Restore UI Module
You might see that there is no UI way to take backup, restore backup. Only available way (till...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/04/2007
IIS7 - Running 32-bit and 64-bit ASP.NET versions at the same time on different worker processes
In IIS6, this was a pain area. On a 64-bit Windows 2003 Server, you cannot run worker processes in...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/03/2007
IIS7 - FTP7 - Supporting Virtual Host names - Extended logging
As you all know that the brand new FTP7 server now supports adding multiple host names. This is...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/14/2007
HOW TO host a POSIX executable on IIS 7.0?
I was working for one of our customer who wanted to host his POSIX executables over IIS 7.0 on...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 09/25/2007
VBScript code for setting HttpRedirect Property for a IIsWebFile programmatically
I was helping one of my colleague whose customer wanted a custom VBScript file which sets...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 08/17/2007
IIS7 - where is the "Web Services Extensions" option which was there in IIS6?
In IIS6, we had a separate node in the left pane to add/view/delete "Web Services Extensions". Here...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 08/16/2007
Submit request for Hotfix yourself
Till now, Customers were getting the hotfixes for Microsoft products after talking to Microsoft...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 08/04/2007
C# : Trapping File Change Notifications - Windows Form Example
I wanted to try writing a utility similar to Filemon myself – to just trap the FCNs for a particular...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/31/2007
IIS7 : Recycling AppDomains inside the AppPool programmatically using Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll - C# example
There will be a lot of situations where you need to recycle only one Application Domain inside an...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/31/2007