Steve Schofield's Blog

This is one of *those* posts I refer to from time to time.  There have been a few posts on http://Forums.iis.net regarding how to manage relay restrictions in SMTP service.   I've used the IISOLE.dll against an IIS 6 server with no issues.  I've not tested on IIS 7, so mileage may vary.  Make sure to install the IIS 6.0 compat modules and test on a non-production box.   If nothing else, download a trial version and create an instance using vmware, hyper-V or Virtual PC.  

Bookmarking for another day. I've never encountered this, but it's good to know. http://blogs.technet.com/ben/archive/2009/03/21/iis-link-parsing-wreaks-havoc-when-ibm-servers-are-involved.aspx Steve...(read more)

Per an annoucement by Mai-lan "Today, at the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS. This wave of...(read more)

I'm on my way to the 2009 MVP summit, I had a two hour layover in Detroit. Considering I forgot to bring a book to read, I thought I would geek a little. Within 40 minutes, I had a Server Core box configured with IIS, added to my domain and managing it...(read more)

I was trying to reproduce an issue posted on the forums @ ( http://forums.iis.net ). As with many posts, I mention use Process Monitor. Here is a perfect example. Download Process Monitor Find out what PID (process ID) in task manager Open Process Monitor...(read more)

Hot off the presses! The Dynamic IP Restrictions includes these key features: Blocking of IP addresses based on number of concurrent requests - If HTTP client makes many concurrent requests then that client's IP address gets temporarily blocked. Blocking...(read more)

Overview The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer...(read more)

I recently posted an article how to setup FTP User Isolation and Active Directory together. Here is the article . In the post, I mentioned you'll need to engage your AD administrator to update the two attributes. Here is a script using Powershell 1.0...(read more)