Steve Schofield Weblog

Use Process Monitor to filter w3wp processes, capture user property (w/pictures) article

steve schofield — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:38:00 GMT

Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net

http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp/

Hope this helps,

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

IIS 7 and Windows Failover clustering support!!

steve schofield — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:59:00 GMT

In Windows 2000 clustering, there was a resource for IIS clustering. This was removed and hasn't been available until recently Thomas Deml from the IIS team pointed to a KB article.. Exciting, Exciting news!!

http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2009/10/27/iis7-and-failover-clustering.aspx

Here is more information about Windows 2008 failover clustering
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/high-availability.aspx

Clustering forum
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverClustering/threads

Enjoy,

Steve Schofield

Checklists for Choosing a Web Host - Key questions to ask when you're selecting a hosting provider article published

steve schofield — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:45:00 GMT

Third article I wrote for ASPNetPro.com http://aspnetpro.com/articles/2009/11/asp200911ss_f/asp200911ss_f.asp Checklists for Choosing a Web Host - Key questions to ask when you're selecting a hosting provider

Enjoy,

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

DNS / Kerberos workaround for IIS 7.0

steve schofield — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:45:00 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926642

Has slashdot.org matured and growing up?!

steve schofield — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:34:00 GMT

I was surfing slashdot and notice there is not nearly as much traffic (# of comments) as it used to. I have to ask, in internet time has all the slashdotter's grown up? I enjoy the stories on slashdot, they are original and some of the comments are well, original too. :P

IIS MVP award again!

steve schofield — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:29:00 GMT

Got the note letting me know I was an Microsoft MVP

Dear Steve Schofield,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! (not sure if it should say 2010) :)

It's cool being part of such an exciting community! See you over at http://forums.iis.net

Steve

Query password protected sites using IIS SEO Toolkit beta 2 available

steve schofield — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:09:00 GMT

Carlos from the IIS team announced the IIS SEO toolkit supports querying sites with Basic or Windows Authentication. I was looking for support against Sharepoint and protected sites. This tool hasn't gotten enough press and is a original piece of software released by the IIS Team

http://forums.iis.net/t/1158486.aspx

Steve Schofield

Microsoft MVP - IIS

Control web.config inheritance with IIS 7, ASP.NET options

steve schofield — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:56:00 GMT

A person I work with was looking to control web.config inheritance in sub-folders within a website. Through some research, asking on an geek mailing list, here is three options that came out. Two are IIS based , one is using ASP.NET. Hope this helps

Option #1

Thanks to Robert McMurray for this one!

"You can set the enableConfigurationOverride attribute to false for an application pool. For example, we set that attribute to false for the FPSE application pool so if a bad web.config file is uploaded to a web site you can still upload an updated file through FPSE that will fix the problem. I sometimes follow that paradigm for WebDAV-enabled sites – I’ll create a public www.foo.com site in an application pool with enableConfigurationOverride set to true and then I’ll create a private webdav.foo.com site in an application pool with enableConfigurationOverride set to false."

See the attributes in the following URLs for more:
http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.applicationHost/applicationPools/add
http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.applicationHost/sites/site/application/virtualDirectory

Option #2

Thanks to Mike Volodarsky for this tip.

"That can be accomplished by setting allowSubDirConfig=false in the application definition (applicationHost.config)"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms689469.aspx

Option #3

Thanks Scott Forsyth for the reminder. This is the option I'm most familar with using and works. It's a little tricky when you have asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 within the same website, for example, 2.0 at the root and 1.1 in a virtual directory. You are better off using 1.1 at the root, 2.0 in a sub-folder if you are required to use such an architecture. I'd suggest having separate websites and not mixing ASP.NET versions within the same website.

ASP.NET - Click the link for more information

inhertInChildApplications property

Cheers!

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

10 Facts You Need to Know about Web Hosting article I wrote

steve schofield — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:15:00 GMT

Here is an article I authored published on www.aspnetpro.com

http://aspnetpro.com/articles/2009/09/asp200909ss_f/asp200909ss_f.asp

Enjoy!

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

Survey of Web Hosting Technologies article

steve schofield — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:56:00 GMT

Here is an article I recently wrote for www.aspnetpro.com This particular article is on Survey of Web Hosting Technologies (Choose carefully among your options)

http://aspnetpro.com/articles/2009/10/asp200910ss_f/asp200910ss_f.asp

Enjoy!

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

Create Policies for Sharepoint and Powershell 1.0

steve schofield — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:50:00 GMT

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint.Publishing")

$SiteURL = "http://www.example.com"
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteURL)
$web = $site.OpenWeb()
$list = $web.Lists["Cache Profiles"]
$newitem = $list.items.Add()
$newitem["Title"]= "AnonCachePolicy"
$newitem["Display Name"]= "AnonCachePolicy"
$newitem["Display Description"]= "AnonCachePolicy"
$newitem["Perform ACL Check"] = $false
$newitem["Enabled"] = $true
$newitem["Duration"] = 60
$newitem["Check for Changes"] = $false
$newitem["Vary by HTTP Header"] = "User-Agent"
$newitem["Vary by User Rights"] = $false
$newitem["Cacheability"] = "ServerAndPrivate"
$newitem["Safe for Authenticated Use"] = $false
$newitem["Allow writers to view cached content"] = $false
$newitem.update()

$anonID = ($list.items | where {$_.Name -eq "AnonCachePolicy"}).ID

$newitem = $list.items.Add()
$newitem["Title"]= "AuthCachePolicy"
$newitem["Display Name"]= "AuthCachePolicy"
$newitem["Display Description"]= "AuthCachePolicy"
$newitem["Perform ACL Check"] = $true
$newitem["Enabled"] = $true
$newitem["Duration"] = 60
$newitem["Check for Changes"] = $true
$newitem["Vary by HTTP Header"] = "HTTP_USER"
$newitem["Vary by User Rights"] = $false
$newitem["Cacheability"] = "ServerAndNoCache"
$newitem["Safe for Authenticated Use"] = $true
$newitem["Allow writers to view cached content"] = $false
$newitem.update()

$authID = ($list.items | where {$_.Name -eq "AuthCachePolicy"}).ID

$cacheSettings = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.SiteCacheSettingsWriter($site)
$cacheSettings.EnableCache = $true
$cacheSettings.ObjectCacheSize = 200
$cacheSettings.SetAnonymousPageCacheProfileId($site, $anonID)
$cacheSettings.SetAuthenticatedPageCacheProfileId($site, $authID)
$cacheSettings.Update()

$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()

Great thread on IIS 7, WebDAV 7.5, Shared Hosting Config w/UNC folder location

steve schofield — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:17:00 GMT

Here is a good thread about WebDAV, FTP 7.5, Shared configuration.. I try to track gems like this in my UNC tag.

http://forums.iis.net/p/1160381/1915103.aspx

Here is more information on Shared Configuration

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/95/managing-shared-configuration/

Cheers,

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS

FTP 7.5 blind drop article

steve schofield — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:15:00 GMT

Years ago I wrote an article on setting up a blind drop FTP server I was searching for some information and ran across an updated article using FTP 7.5. Funny thing I recently setup a blind drop using FTP 7.5 and referred to my article on permissions.

http://blogs.msdn.com/vivekkum/archive/2009/05/10/blind-drop-ftp-in-iis-7-7-5.aspx

btw - here is a Blind Get, I've not tried on FTP 7.5, the permissions should be similar.

http://www.iislogs.com/articles/blindget/

Hope this helps

Steve Schofield

Microsoft MVP - IIS

Cool! I was featured on MSTech blog site.

steve schofield — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:06:00 GMT

I don't normally share self-promotion information. This was cool to be features on MSTechED site.

http://www.msteched.com/online/blogs.aspx

Check it out!

Steve

Walkthrough on how to use FTP authentication to provide dynamic IP restrictions FTP 7.5

steve schofield — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:37:00 GMT

Few months back, Microsoft released a new module that blocked HTTP requests from brute force attack, http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions This is great for HTTP requests, but didn't address another pressing need, FTP brute force attacks. Robert McMurray published a walkthrough for the FTP service that shows how to create an authentication provider, that gives you dynamic IP restrictions for the FTP service.

Here is the how-to:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/673/how-to-use-managed-code-c-to-create-an-ftp-authentication-provider-with-dynamic-ip-restrictions/

Thanks Robert for the great article.

Steve Schofield

Microsoft MVP - IIS