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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:...
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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...
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My work recently gave me a new Latitude E6400 (the E6500 was just a bit too heavy) which is a great machine for running virtual machines out of the office. It has an internal 7200 RPM drive, a modular drive (120GB 1.8" 5400 RPM) and I can connect...
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After adding extra disks to the home "data centre" and then getting a new backup device ( Dell RD1000 ), today I took a punt on upgrading the RAM. When I originally bought my Dell PE SC1430 it was rated at a maximum of 8GB RAM. The latest models...
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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...
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It's all over the web, and now here too. Internet Explorer 8 available for download from Microsoft's website . Unfortunately no update for the rather buggy IE8 that shipped with Windows 7 betas....
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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...
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Bill Staples has let the cat out of the bag. IIS 7.0 has a new, comprehensive configuration file reference available at iis.net...
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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...
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In this part we extend, slightly, upon the previous scenario , by adding delegation. Now we need to allow IIS, in our resource Forest (or domain) to delegate the end user’s credentials, to a backend service (SQL Server in this case): The machines...
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Note: I have created a list of all the IIS and Kerberos parts I'm finally getting around to writing this section on IIS and Kerberos. This initial post will cover the basics of a cross-Forest Kerberos authentication scenario. In the next few posts...
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I was just trying to install SCVMM 2008 Beta 1 today. When installing the SCVMM 2008 Server, it failed installing the WAIK prerequisite asking me to instead install this manually. Attempting to run the WAIK msi directly from the prerequisites folder (\prerequisites\WAIK\1033)...
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Last week I was in Seattle attending the Microsoft MVP Summit for 2008. Certainly this year's summit was much better organised than some previous summits in terms of interaction with the IIS product group. Whilst we've seen a bunch of interesting...
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As some of you may be aware, Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss presented a session at the just completed Hack in a Box conference where exploit code was demonstrated that allows certain code running with restricted privileges (e.g. Network Service) to gain high...
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This Easter weekend, having a bit of downtime, I decided to convert my virtual infrastructure at home from VMWare Server to Hyper-V. The major blocking issue was a lack of RAID controller drivers from 3Ware for their 9650SE-series cards, but thanks to...
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Here's a useful little module I didn't know even existed, but it appears to have been added to the Microsoft download site in the past couple of days. It allows for bit rate throttling of common, supported, media files when served by IIS 7.0....
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Today Microsoft released to the Microsoft download site WebDAV modules for Windows Server 2008 / IIS 7.0 in both x86 and x64 versions. These are also available from the www.iis.net website. Robert McMurray has written a page explaining how to configure...
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Well, the book is finally a reality. I received my copies today - yay! You can buy a copy from Amazon.com or your favourite bookstore now....
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Note: previous articles Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0 introduce some changes to the way that you need to implement Kerberos support. The three major changes that I'm aware of are: Service Principal Names (SPNs) no longer need to be registered under...
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Hi all, There are two security patches out this month for IIS. The first ( MS08-005 ) affects Windows XP x86 (IIS 5.1), Windows XP x64 (IIS 6.0), Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0) and Vista RTM (IIS 7.0). Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 are not affected....
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Windows Server 2003 SP1 introduces kernel mode SSL. Windows Server 2008 takes this one step further and introduces kernel mode authentication. This can be utilised by IIS 7.0 applications to improve performance. It also has implications for Kerberos authentication...
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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...
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Well, I'm writing a blog post on IIS application sandboxing, and this item crosses my inbox. It appears that all the time spent mucking about with Windows Home Server , and Windows Media Centre might now actually result in MCTS certification . So,...
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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...
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I see that Ben Armstrong has posted instructions on how to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to give your Hyper-V virtual machines access to networks via a wireless adapter. However ICS does not appear to work if the network that your wireless...
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