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Having just deployed a test Operations Manager 2007 server at home, I wanted to publish the Web Console site externally, so I wouldn't have to continually TS into my box at home, and use the regular console. My only problem is that I have a single public IP address, and because I'm only publishing services over HTTPS, I only have a single ...

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 :-)

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For the last week, I've been at Tech.Ed 2006 in Boston. Tech.Ed is one of Microsoft's largest technical conferences, and is run in a number of locations around the world. The Boston event had over 11,000 attendees. IIS was strongly represented in the Web Server/Development track. There were plenty of sessions on new features and changes ...

See in the IIS Security newsgroup no less:Configuring Internet Explorer to use proxy server has never been easier: If you want to configure it from command line, look at: If you take a look at the webpage, you are offered the download of an .exe (without source) that promises to make configuring your proxy server easy, via a command line. I ...

I still haven't managed to find time to get some resources from Tech.Ed up - hopefully by this weekend. In the meantime, there's new things from Microsoft for everyone both developers and IT Pros. Microsoft has launched a new site for its project codenamed "Atlas". Atlas, just launched at PDC 2005, is an implementation of AJAX ...

Bernard Cheah is an IIS MVP who contributed two chapters to the LogParser Toolkit. He posted the following code snippet to show what's possible using LogParser. ping -n 15 www.yahoo.com | logparser "SELECT TO_INT(REPLACE_STR(EXTRACT_VALUE(Text,'time',' '),'ms','')) AS Response INTO Ping.gif FROM stdin ...