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In previous versions of IIS, it has sometimes been difficult to isolate web application pools from each other. If multiple web application pools are configured to run as the same identity (e.g. Network Service) then code running inside one web application pool would be able to use File System objects to access configuration files, web pages and ...

Hi, For all those wondering what options you have post-Application Center 2000 for synchronisation (let alone load balancing etc), the IIS Product Group has released a technical preview of a new tool: msdeploy.exe. This tool can sync or migrate:IIS 7.0 configuration settingsWeb contentRegistry keys and valuesSSL certificatesThe product group is ...

Well it seems that the IIS product is just sneaking in the final bits and pieces missing from IIS 7.0 at this very late stage of the Windows Server 2008 release cycle. Spotted on Robert McMurray's blog is a GoLive Beta release of the IIS 7.0 WebDAV module. This will be included inbox with the final Windows Server 2008 release, but wasn't ...

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Spotted on Mike Volodarsky's blog is an announcement that the Health Model for IIS 7.0 has been published on Microsoft TechNet. This describes the various error conditions that IIS 7.0 (and related services, like the Worker Process Activation Service) might encounter. If you are familiar ...

Wow, what a big set of weeks the past few have been (and I've been too busy doing other things to blog)... First Microsoft has settled with Eolas, allowing Internet Explorer users to move away from having to click on certain embedded controls to activate them. Of course, if you followed this MSDN page, your users didn't have to ...

Having just deployed a test Operations Manager 2007 server at home, I wanted to publish the Web Console site externally, so I wouldn't have to continually TS into my box at home, and use the regular console. My only problem is that I have a single public IP address, and because I'm only publishing services over HTTPS, I only have a single ...

Protocol Transition is a new feature in Windows Server 2003. The Kerberos implementation in Windows Active Directory domains provides the robustness of Kerberos whilst also obviating a number of the technical issues with non-Windows Kerberos implementations (platform infrastructure, ticket renewal, ticket proxy). However Kerberos has a downside ...

I was asked recently by a colleague if a website defined in IIS could have multiple SSL certificates installed, so that the website would answer requests for https://www.abc.com as well as https://www.def.com without generating an error in the user's browser that the website's name didn't match the one in the certificate. The simple ...

Unfortunately if you have a new Vista PC, and you try to use the web enrollment pages (certsrv) hosted on a Windows Server 2000 Certificate Authority (CA) or a Windows Server 2003 CA, you won't be able to enrol for a certificate (indeed if you're using Windows Server 2003 SP2 you get a message to that effect). If you are in a domain ...

One of the big IIS secrets that we've all been keeping under wraps is the new FTP Server that will be available for Longhorn Server. The two features that most interest me are:FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) support. Finally a secure publishing solution. From what I remember, the entire session can be encrypted, or just the credentialsSupport for ...