IIS 7 / IIS 7.5 Security Best Practices (nothing official about it)

by vivek 7/4/2011 10:46:35 AM
We have IIS 7 released for quite some time now and we haven’t seen any best practices document released by Microsoft IIS 7 team. IIS 6 have good document in place and even though IIS 7 is secure by default, we need some document to keep us in-check. Here are few I prepared for myself: Installing I... [More]


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ETag and IIS demystified

by rahul 3/17/2011 6:17:29 PM
Let me quote from Wikipedia straight away… <snip> An ETag, or entity tag, is part of HTTP, the protocol for the World Wide Web. It is one of several mechanisms that HTTP provides for cache validation, and which allows a client to make conditional requests. This allows caches to be more effi... [More]


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Did you know: How to recreate “Default Web Site” in IIS 7 / 7.5

by vivek 5/27/2010 4:27:30 AM
Many a times you will find people delete the “Default Web Site” and then they install some application which require “Default Web Site”. Now, once you have deleted the Web Site how can you recreate or undelete the Web Site. Not possible unless you have a backup. Fortunately, there are workarounds i... [More]


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Did you know: How IIS 6.0 handles Custom Errors when aspnet_isapi.dll is mapped as a wildcard extension?

by vivek 3/23/2010 7:33:34 AM
Sometime back I came across a very good question on ServerFault and I thought of doing some research to understand how IIS handles Custom Errors setting when all requests are passed through aspnet_isapi.dll. Here is a brief background: Scenario 1: We have a Wildcard mapping configured for aspnet_... [More]


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Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for IIS - 3

by rahul 1/26/2010 12:10:40 PM
In the last couple of posts you’ve seen collection and manual analysis of Performance data. In this post let’s automate the analysis using one of the really fantastic tools called PAL – Performance Analysis of Logs. Download it from CodePlex. Ensure that you have installed all the pre-requisites… ... [More]


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Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for IIS - 2

by rahul 1/21/2010 11:37:40 AM
In my previous post, I have shown the configuration of perfmon counters. Let’s talk about how to analyze it now. Before you do anything else, read the following articles… IIS 6 Performance Counters Suggested Performance Counters to Watch (IIS 6.0) ASP.NET Performance Counters I know i... [More]


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“HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error” in IIS 7 / 7.5

by Vivek 12/15/2009 8:27:00 AM
I was testing a simple WCF application deployed on my IIS 7.5 machine. This was working fine on my development Windows 7 IIS 7.5 client machine but as soon as I deployed it on my Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 machine the application threw the following error: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Er... [More]


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Change IIS Server (Machine) name including IUSR and IWAM account

by rahul 8/25/2009 5:27:02 PM
I borrowed a VHD recently with Windows 2003 SP 2 installed. Since I had to rename the name of the machine before I make a networked farm, I thought of writing this post to show how you can take care of renaming of an IIS Server. Yeah, looks and sounds simple but I have a few tips up my sleeve so you... [More]


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