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IIS Express Announced

Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:59 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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ISC reporting a mass infection of IIS sites

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:12 AM by Ken
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. Read More...
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Denial of Service attach detailed against IIS 5 / IIS 6 FTP Service

Posted Monday, September 7, 2009 1:39 AM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 released

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:14 PM by Ken
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) Read More...
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Debugging an IIS / SharePoint performance issue using WinDBG

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:19 PM by Ken
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: Read More...
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Windows Home Server and IIS 7.0 restore problems

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:09 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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MVP Summit 2009

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:05 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS and Kerberos Part 9 - Cross Forest Delegation scenario with UPN suffix routing

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:44 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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New IIS 7.0 configuration reference available

Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:38 PM by Ken
Bill Staples has let the cat out of the bag. IIS 7.0 has a new, comprehensive configuration file reference available at iis.net Read More...
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Tech.Ed 2008 over

Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 11:05 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS and Kerberos Part 8 - a simple cross Forest/Domain delegation scenario

Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:45 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS and Kerberos Part 7 - A simple cross Forest scenario

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:13 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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MVP Summit 2008

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 2:20 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Potential Critical Security issue in Windows Server 2003/2008 - IIS may be a vector for compromise

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:59 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Media bit rate throttling module released for IIS 7.0

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 1:56 PM by Ken
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. Read More...
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