Category: iis
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Exchange Web Services (EWS) and 501 Error
As is common with a lot that I write in this blog, it is based on noting down the answers to stuff I could not find online. For this issue, I did find something online by Michael Van “Hybrid”, but finding it was the challenge. So rather than detailing the issue and the reason (you…
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Secret NSA Listening Ports in Exchange Server 2013? Of Course Not…
But what do those extra ports in Exchange Server 2013 that are listening actually do. If you bring up a command prompt on an Exchange Server 2013 machine and run netstat –ano | find “:25”. You will get back a list of IP addresses that are listening on any port starting 25. The last number…
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IPv6 Routed LAN with Windows
This blog is written to note down the steps needed to configure IPv6 on the whole of your LAN using Windows Server 2008 R2 as the router, but without installing RRAS. It also uses Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 tunnel broker service to provide the IPv6 connectivity via an IPv4 tunnel as my internet provider (Virgin Media…
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Running Offline Web Applications from IIS Server
A feature of HTML 5 based applications is the ability to ensure that applications can still run even if internet connectivity is not present. How to do this is covered on the W3.org website. A requirement of offline access is the creation of the offline cache manifest file. This manifest file is listed in the…
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GoDaddy SSL Certificate Approval with TXT Records
I had a bit of an issue with Go Daddy yesterday in that they took 5 days to approve a Subject Alternative Name change to a certificate, and as the usual route of adding a file to a website was unavailable to me I decided to prove ownership of the domain by the addition of…
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SBS 2008 SharePoint Install Breaks Default SBS Web Site
A recent installation of a second SharePoint site on Small Business Server 2008 broke the Remote Web Workplace site for access from the internet. Intranet access to the site worked fine, but from the internet where the http request to the site is redirected to https had stopped working. Opening up IIS 7 Manager and…
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Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, 64 bit Server, Terminal Services Web Application and Access Databases
This is a long list of pre-requisites, but for your information they do not work together. If you have a web site that uses Access as its data storage and you migrate that site to an x64 Windows machine then access to the Access MDB file ceases with the following error: “‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’ provider is not…
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SSTP (SSL VPN) on SBS 2008 RC0
Updated 31st March 2008: Please see http://c7solutions.com/blog/2009/03/configuring-sstp-vpn-on-small-business_31.aspx as this new article replaces the below, as the below refers to a pre-release version of SBS 2008. The working instructions for configuring SSTP on SBS 2008 is much more complicated than the steps below. SSL based VPN’s are great. In short it is VPN without firewall or…
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Search Not Indexing
If you get the following error on a WSS 3.0 site: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205) Then check that you are not being blocked from searching due to Kerberos restrictions. The search service indexes the…
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Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. The network logon failed. (1790)
This is an error visible in the web browser when connecting to a HTTPS web site behind an ISA Server. The problem is that the firewall access rule for this web site in ISA Server is forwarding the requests to an internal server on a port that it is not listening on. For example you…
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Creating Subject Alternative Name Certificates with Microsoft Certificate Server
A new feature in digital certificates is the Subject Alternative Name property. This allows you to have a certificate for more than one URI (i.e. www.c7solutions.com and www.c7solutions.co.uk) in the same certificate. It also means that in web servers such as IIS you can bind this certificate to the site and use up only one…
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Improving the Performance of IIS 6.0 Applications
Whilst working at a client doing some performance testing of an intranet, web-based, application we came across a little documented way to improve the network performance of the application if the web server is running IIS 6.0 on the Windows Server 2003 platform. When the IIS 6.0 web server uses Windows Integrated authentication to log…
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Enabling ASP.NET Session State without Installing IIS
At a client site, I needed to enable within a web cluster the ASP.NET session state service (ASP.NET State Service) and initially this was going to go on one server within the web cluster. The only problem though, as this configuration is easy, was what happens if the one server in the cluster that this…