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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 web server). Simply right-click on a folder, and you can start an instance of IIS running ...

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.

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 installation to fail with this error. Renaming the host so that it no longer includes dashes in ...

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: DPM 2007 SP1 is required to protect backend SQL Server clusters. Don't even consider DPM 2007 ...

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 high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding ...

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 appear to be required to be running once installation has completed.

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 are available on the Secunia blog. My fellow MVPs are not reporting 100% results against ...

Hi nopliiz, I don't think there'd be any differences here. OWA is just using standard Windows authentication routines under the covers.

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)

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 of Outlook, the ExtraOutlook tool is still available.