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IIS and Kerberos Part 8 - a simple cross Forest/Domain delegation scenario

Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:45 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS and Kerberos Part 7 - A simple cross Forest scenario

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:13 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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MVP Summit 2008

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 2:20 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Potential Critical Security issue in Windows Server 2003/2008 - IIS may be a vector for compromise

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:59 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Media bit rate throttling module released for IIS 7.0

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 1:56 PM by Ken
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. Read More...
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WebDAV module released for IIS 7.0

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:02 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Professional IIS 7.0 released

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:37 PM by Ken
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. Read More...
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IIS and Kerberos Part 6 - New in IIS 7

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:56 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS - two security patches this month

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:23 PM by Ken
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. Read More...
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New in IIS 7 - Kernel Mode Authentication

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:34 AM by Ken
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 Read More...
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New in IIS 7 - App Pool Isolation

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:47 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS syncronisation tool - tech preview released

Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:59 AM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS 7.0 WebDAV module (beta) released

Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:45 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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IIS 7.0 Health Model published, and MOM 2005 MP for IIS 7.0 (beta) released

Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:51 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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Internet Explorer change, FastCGI for IIS Released, VS.NET 2008, .NET v3.5, Professional IIS 7.0

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:57 PM by Ken
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 Read More...
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