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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.

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 ...

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)

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: W3SVC-WP Event ID: 2262 Description: ISAPI ...

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 pool configuration files that are generated on-the-fly by IIS when a web application pool is ...

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 keynote session. Some heavy hitters turned up for the executive keynote - Steve Ballmer ...

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 have the same two Forests as in Part 8. Forest A (domainA.local) contains our resource servers ...

Bill Staples has let the cat out of the bag. IIS 7.0 has a new, comprehensive configuration file reference available at iis.net

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 kitchen renovations is consuming pretty much all of the spare time on weekends. This year I ...