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On my current project, the customer is implementing a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) as part of the platform migration. Whilst we had verified our design on x86 (32 bit), we thought we should also verify our design on x64 (64 bit Windows) just in case there were any gotchas. After installing Certificate Services on our root and subordinate CAs ...

It's been a quiet month blog wise, but very busy otherwise. On August 25-28th I was at Tech.Ed Australia 2006 presenting two sessions on IIS (Everything web administrator needs to know about MOM 2005 and IIS 7.0 An End to End Overview). In mid-August, my IIS Insider article went up on Microsoft TechNet. Then on September 5th to 8th I was ...

MSDN Library is now a freely available download from Microsoft, saving developers and systems administrators who previously had to subscribe to an MSDN Library level subscription. The May MSDN library is available from Microsoft Download Centre.

Tristan's got a post explaining how to determine whether your client's using NTLM or Kerberos when authenticating to your web application. Is there a better way than looking at the size of the request? I think so (but that's just my opinion). The first option is to simply use a capture tool (such as Wireshark aka Ethereal) that is ...

If you're coming to Tech.Ed Sydney please feel free to drop by and say "Hi!" I'll be presenting two sessions on Wednesday afternoon:2:00 PM - 3:15 PM WEB201 IIS 7: End-to-End Overview of Microsoft’s New Web Application Server (Level 200)3:45 PM - 5:00 PM WEB204 IIS 6: Everything a Web Administrator Needs to Know About MOM ...

One of the benefits of working at Avanade is the chance to work on some very large, enterprise scale projects. Last year I worked on a platform refresh project for one of Australia's largest commercial organisations - over 30,000 clients and over 1200 infrastructure related servers. Right now I'm working on one of Australia's largest ...

There are a few good resources out there for troubleshoting crash/hang situations in Windows. Some of the resources I regularly look to include: Tess's Blog Raymond Chen's BlogDavid Wang's blogWindows Internals (by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon)The WinDBG newsgroup on the Microsoft public news server (news.microsoft.com)Pat's ...

Microsoft released two IIS-related updates in this month's batch of security patches. The first involves ASP, and the second ASP.NET. Both are listed as Important. What are the actual risks and vulnerability details though? ASP.NET The ASP.NET patch (MS 06-033) deal with a potential Information Disclosure risk. In ASP.NET v2 a special folder ...

Blink, and you would have missed it, but I authored the April IIS Insider column on TechNet. I'm scheduled to do the August column, so if you have any IIS questions you'd like answered, please feel free to contact me with your query. Thanks!

It's official - I'm starting on my second book. The contract from the publisher was delivered whilst I was away at Tech.Ed and I'll be signing and returning it today. Look for "Professional IIS 7.0" next year coinciding with the release of Windows Server 2007.