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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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SCVMM 2008 Beta 1 install fails at the WAIK prerequisite step

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:50 PM by Ken
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) 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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Converting from VMWare Server to Hyper-V RC0

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:06 PM by Ken
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 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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OT: You can get certification for Home Server, Media Center and other sundry topics - awesome!

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 2:34 PM by Ken
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, 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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