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Over the years, I've answered quite a lot of questions for the IIS Insider column at Microsoft.  Here's a listing of the archives, some of which you could find useful. Suggestions and corrections are of course welcome. You can find the latest column at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/insider/default.mspx


2004

Are IIS Admin Service and File and Print Sharing Network Service Required?

Basic Authentication “Tokens” Are Cached

Can You Assign Multiple Certificates to One Web Site?

Domain Credentials Used When Accessing Trusted Sites

Do You Need to Install Certificate Services to Create a Certificate for IIS?

Exporting a Web Site’s Configuration to a File

Getting the Client IP Address in the IIS Log Files

How can I disable the caching?

How can I force NTLM authentication on IIS Server 6?

How can I set up a virtual directory in another server?

How COM and COM Objects Work with IIS

How Do You Create Web Folders on the Server?

How To Query Performance Monitor Counters Using a Web Page

Is it Best Practice to Rename the Inetpub and Wwwroot Directories?

Is It Possible to Destroy All ADO Recordsets with a Single Function Call?

Migrating from asp to asp.net

Old Passwords Still Valid After Making Changes

Page Not Found Error When Querying Valid ASP Pages

Parser Error Message with ASP.net Installed

Recycling ASP.net Periodically

Should We Upgrade to IIS 6 Before Deploying Our ASP.net Applications?

SMTP Service Disappears from IIS Console

Web Service Extensions Feature in IIS 6.0

Which IIS 5 Caches Are Still Operative in IIS 6?


2003

Another Way of Changing Passwords In IIS Through Internet Explorer

Basic Authentication Versus Integrated Windows Authentication

Be Wary of File Extensions when Running URLScan on a Web Server

Configuring the IIS Admin Service

Consolidating Multiple Log Files Into Single File

Default Web Site Content Overwritten When Publishing Multiple Sites

Does IIS 5.1 Installation Require the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM?

Effect of Removing Extensions from ISAPI Application Mappings

Error Message: HTTP 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address rejected

How to Make HTTP Headers for All Content to Expire Immediately

How to Monitor the Recycling of Application Pools

How to Prevent the Opening of Others' Files By Manually Entering the URL In the Browser's Address Bar

How To Migrate and Troubleshoot FrontPage-enabled Sites (from IIS 5 to IIS 6)

How to Remove the Administration Web Site

How to Restart IIS from a Command Prompt

How to Verify IIS Lockdown Tool Has Been Run

IIS 6.0 Introduces New Users and Groups and Their Default Permissions

Is IIS 5.1 in Windows 2000 Professional Limited to 10 Connections?

Only One Web Site Returned For Multiple Domains (Using Host Headers)

PDF Files Do Not Render Properly

Permission Denied Running CDONTS Application

Server Execution Failed After IIS 5.0 Setup

What are Null Sessions?

What are the Consequences of Renaming the IIS Server Name?

What are WebGardens?

What Can Analyze URLScan Log Files?

What Does the IIS Lockdown Tool Do with Application Mappings?

What Does the “Parser Error Message” Mean?

What is the Network Service?

What Triggers the IUSR Password to Expire?

What You Can Do If Your IIS Server Has Been Successfully Attacked

2002

“Access Denied” Trying to Access a Database with ASP

Accessing IISADMIN Virtual Directory Results in Server Reboots (IIS 4)

Allocating More System Resources for IIS 5

Are Host Headers Supported with FTP?

Can ISAPI Filters Run in Separate Process Space?

Can We Install IIS or PWS with Windows XP Home Edition?

Can You Allow Domain Users to Manage Virtual Directories in Windows 2000 Professional?

Can You Use Host Headers On The Same Site Requiring SSL?

Changing the CGI Script Timeout Period

Code Examples for Editing Documents from ASP using WebDAV

Conflict Installing IIS 4.0 From Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack

Difference Between the Execute Permissions for Application Settings

Differences Between “In” and “Out of Process” In the Event of a Buffer Overflow Attack

Does Number of Client Access Licenses Correlate with Number of Web Sites You Can Host?

Extracting URLScan from the IIS Lockdown Tool

FrontPage Server Extensions Manages Your NTFS Permissions

How to Back Up IIS Settings

How to Detect Which Computers Have IIS Installed

How to Install the .NET Framework (for IIS Servers)

How to Move the Metabase from One Computer to Another

How to Run Applications Not In The Context of the System Account

How to Run CDONTS As An Out-of-Process Application

How to Run IIS Lockdown Tool Without Restoring Original Settings

How to Run Scripts Other Than ASP on IIS

How to Send Query String Information For Redirection

How to Use Previous Log Files After Recreating the Site

Localstart.asp Is “Under Construction”

Location of the Web Anonymous User Account’s Password

Managing Permissions Manually Instead of Using FrontPage Client

Masking the IP Address in the HTTP Header (Content-Location)

Minimum Permissions Required for SMTP Folders

More About Installing IIS in Windows XP

Need to Reapply Hotfixes and Service Packs After Adding Internet Services?

Ports to Open When Configuring IIS Server for Use in the DMZ

Processing Server Side Include Syntax Without Renaming Files

Recommended Folder Structure When Hosting Multiple Sites

Renaming the IUSR Account

Resolving to Correct IP Address Without Using DNS

Resources for Troubleshooting the SMTP Service

Selecting From Multiple Authentication Methods

Setting Up and Routing Sub-domains in IIS

Software That Analyzes IIS Log Files

To Authenticate or Not When Accessing the Default Web Site

Tools for Stress Testing IIS Applications

Using Parameters in URL to Redirect Requests

Which ISAPI Filters Can Be Removed?

2001

Backing Up and Securing Metabase.bin

Determining Hardware Upgrade after Upgrading to IIS 5.0

Download or Run the Executable File

Error Writing Encrypted Data to the Web Servers Configuration Database

“Failed to Generate Certificate Request” Error Message

How Does IIS Enforce NTFS Permissions?

How to Customize Name and Location of Metabase.bin

How To Install IIS 5.0 on a Separate Drive

How to Make W3SVC Formatted Log Files Use Server Time

How to Place Content Outside the FTP Root and Have Clients Access Folders

How To Secure the IUSR_account

How To Send Mail from Your IIS Application

How To Set Limits on the Size of the URL

How to Use WebDAV

Is FTP Domain Authentication Required?

Maintaining NTFS Permissions for Your Web Servers

Maximize Data Throughput Setting for Performance

Performance Penalty Using Host Headers Feature?

Possible to Create Multiple Web Sites with Windows 2000 Professional?

Programs Not Being Prompted to be Saved to Your Computer

Securing a Web Server from Defacements

Starting Site After Implementing Host Header Results in Error

What Do the IIS Error Codes Mean?

Web site Limit with IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0

Which Version of IIS Can Be Used in Windows 2000?


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