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It appears that there is a bug in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 - session_OnEnd events no longer fire in Classic ASP applications. A hotfix and KB to come soon. EDIT: Hotfix is now available here (KB934903)

In a previous FAQ we covered enabling Metabase Auditing which allows tracking of metabase changes. If you'd like to get alerts on these changes in MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, instructions are in this new FAQ.  Just in time before the end of the month - an IIS related blog post :-)

The Longhorn Server February CTP has been released on Connect. I imagine it will be available on MSDN downloads soon

I noticed on Frank's blog today that Adam Cogan has some suggestions for improving Microsoft software. In particular Adam has a page on improving IIS. With all due respect to Adam, I think we have a PEBKAC issue here, not a GUI issue. Adam complains that it's difficult to distinguish between a physical folder and a virtual folder in the ...

Amongst all the hoopla around the Window Vista and Office 2007 launches, there are a few more downloads out there worth checking out. The new IIS Download Center has been launched by the IIS Product Group. Here you can download add-ons and extensions to IIS. In their words "The DownloadCENTER at IIS.net, is a community hotspot for ...

Delegation is a feature of Kerberos authentication that allows a server to obtain a Kerberos ticket on behalf of an end user without ever having access to the end user's password. This functionality allows Kerberos to solve typical "double-hop" authentication problems where a user's credentials need to flow through multiple ...

In Part 3 of this series we look at setting up Kerberos Authentication in the simplest possible scenario. If you missed Parts 1 (What is Kerberos and how does it work) and 2 (Service Principal Names) they may be worth reading first. In this scenario, we have a client, a DC and a single IIS server. As we progress through the series, we will ...

Apologies for the delay in posting Part 2 - I've been on holidays so it's been a bit hard finding the time to write these posts. In this part we cover Service Principal Names (SPNs).  In a previous post we covered the basics of Kerberos authentication. Everything is relatively straitforward, however I didn't cover the one ...

Edit: I've created a list of all the parts in this series here, which will be updated as I add more parts.  Configuring Kerberos and Delegation is one of the more common problems I see in the communities and even within Avanade. Since Kerberos isn't a simple topic, I'm going to write a quick series explaining how Kerberos works, ...

Looks like I'm a Microsoft MVP for another year. Yay! From: ...@mvpaward.com Sent: Sunday, 1 October 2006 9:37 PM To: Ken Schaefer Subject: [MVP] Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award Dear Ken Schaefer, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award! The Microsoft MVP Award is our ...