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Seen on Scott Guthrie's blog , is an announcement for an upcoming release of IIS Express. IIS Express offers the functionality of IIS 7.0, even back on Windows XP, running as a user mode application (i.e. admin rights not required to run this ad hoc...
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More info: http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8935 Verify your IIS website, and if you are maintaining the server, verify you're up-to-date with patches....
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You can get this error for a variety of reasons (the associated error message gives a few possible reasons and things to check). In my case it appears that attempting to install SCVMM 2008 R2 on a server that has dashes (-) in the host name causes the...
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Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert in Data Protection Manager 2007! However after recent experiences, I believe that the following items should be considered when evaluating DPM 2007 SP1 for protecting your Sharepoint/MOSS 2007 farm. Note:...
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It seems I must have snuck back in by the skin of my teeth: Dear Ken Schaefer, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their...
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Typically this error is database related however you can also get this error if the Secondary Logon service is not started. Your corporate security policy may disable this service. Temporarily enabling it will allow DPM install to proceed. It does not...
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Kingcope has published an exploit to the Bugtraq mailing list for IIS FTP service running on IIS5, IIS6 and IIS7 (when running FTP v6). Note that IIS 7 running FTP v7 and IIS 7.5 are not affected. Microsoft has an official advisory , and some more details...
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have RTMed. Some new features include (of course) IIS 7.5, new Active Directory functionality (recycle bin), the Live Migration for Hyper-V virtual machines, and direct access/branch cache (for clients)...
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Yay - about time. We can now avoid the situation where we have to load multiple copies of Outlook to access multiple Exchange profiles. I haven't worked out a way to rename the actual mailboxes (that actually works). For those stuck on an older version...
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After a recent SharePoint 2007 migration exercise at a large customer, we started experiencing performance issues reported by end users when the system was under load. In the Windows Event Logs we saw the following event: Event Type: Warning Event Source:...
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Windows Home Server automatically ignored folders called "temp" when configuring backups. Normally this isn't a problem. However IIS 7.0 does create a folder called temp (by default at c:\inetpub\temp). In this location are stored application...
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My work recently gave me a new Latitude E6400 (the E6500 was just a bit too heavy) which is a great machine for running virtual machines out of the office. It has an internal 7200 RPM drive, a modular drive (120GB 1.8" 5400 RPM) and I can connect...
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After adding extra disks to the home "data centre" and then getting a new backup device ( Dell RD1000 ), today I took a punt on upgrading the RAM. When I originally bought my Dell PE SC1430 it was rated at a maximum of 8GB RAM. The latest models...
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Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the 2009 Microsoft MVP summit in Seattle. The bulk of the summit consisted of two days of sessions with our product teams (I popped across to some Directory Services sessions as well), and a one day executive...
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It's all over the web, and now here too. Internet Explorer 8 available for download from Microsoft's website . Unfortunately no update for the rather buggy IE8 that shipped with Windows 7 betas....
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As an extension of the previous article on Cross Forest (or Cross Domain) Kerberos Authentication this article examines how to configure cross forest authentication and delegation when users are accessing an arbitrary website URL. In this scenario we...
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Bill Staples has let the cat out of the bag. IIS 7.0 has a new, comprehensive configuration file reference available at iis.net...
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It's been a long time between blog posts. Between a couple of Tech.Eds, being sick with the flu, and a large enterprise System Center Operations Manager 2007 deployment, it's been pretty busy the past month. In addition, handling bathroom and...
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In this part we extend, slightly, upon the previous scenario , by adding delegation. Now we need to allow IIS, in our resource Forest (or domain) to delegate the end user’s credentials, to a backend service (SQL Server in this case): The machines...
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Note: I have created a list of all the IIS and Kerberos parts I'm finally getting around to writing this section on IIS and Kerberos. This initial post will cover the basics of a cross-Forest Kerberos authentication scenario. In the next few posts...
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I was just trying to install SCVMM 2008 Beta 1 today. When installing the SCVMM 2008 Server, it failed installing the WAIK prerequisite asking me to instead install this manually. Attempting to run the WAIK msi directly from the prerequisites folder (\prerequisites\WAIK\1033)...
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Last week I was in Seattle attending the Microsoft MVP Summit for 2008. Certainly this year's summit was much better organised than some previous summits in terms of interaction with the IIS product group. Whilst we've seen a bunch of interesting...
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As some of you may be aware, Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss presented a session at the just completed Hack in a Box conference where exploit code was demonstrated that allows certain code running with restricted privileges (e.g. Network Service) to gain high...
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This Easter weekend, having a bit of downtime, I decided to convert my virtual infrastructure at home from VMWare Server to Hyper-V. The major blocking issue was a lack of RAID controller drivers from 3Ware for their 9650SE-series cards, but thanks to...
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Here's a useful little module I didn't know even existed, but it appears to have been added to the Microsoft download site in the past couple of days. It allows for bit rate throttling of common, supported, media files when served by IIS 7.0....
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