Getting 404.7 error for “/” root requests after Disabling Allow Unlisted file extension

by jask2002 7. March 2013 12:05
To secure the IIS 7.x one of the recommendation is to change the Request Filtering => FIle Extensions: [More]

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Samples for Programmatically Accessing / Scripting /Automation of Administrative Tasks in IIS

by jask2002 26. August 2012 21:56
Sometime back I reviewed the few of the sample for automating task in IIS (6, 7.x) using MWA, WMI , ADSI. You can download the sample code (c#, vb.net)

Admin IIS7.x using MWA (C#)
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Difference between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 OS

by jask2002 14. June 2012 00:10
Yesterday my senior asked me what is difference between Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 servers.

Here is the answer:

Windows Server 2008 is the same codebase bits as Vista. It is available in two flavors 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
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MachineKeys on IIS 7.x : Inside Out

by jask2002 3. May 2012 04:16
Question: What are Machinekeys? On what particular keys IIS 7.x is dependent upon?

Ans: IIS uses MachineKeys for encrypting data like passwords, App Pool identities which are stored in configs(applicationhost.config and web.config)

By default, IIS 7 includes two main providers for securing properties located in applicationhost.config [More]

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IIS 7.x: Secure your sites through Dynamic IP restriction module

by jask2002 3. April 2012 00:35
The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level. [More]

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Finally App Warmup/Application Initialization back again

by jask2002 2. April 2012 11:41
Application Initialization 1.0 for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to configure IIS to proactively perform initialization tasks for one or more web applications. [More]

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How to Disable CRL check on IIS 7.X

by jask2002 2. April 2012 10:33
On IIS 6 you can disable CRL check by running following command

C:\Inetpub\Adminscript\cscript.exe adsutil.vbs Set W3SVC\CertCheckMode 1 but on IIS 7 we don't have metabase.xml. Now this key has been moved to Registry [More]

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Resolution for HTTP 500.19 Errors in IIS 7.X

by jask2002 1. April 2012 00:34
One of the most common error message on IIS 7 is 500.19.

For your easy reference I’m adding scenarios and resolutions from KB 942055
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IIS 7.x: When kernelCachePolicy is set to DontCache, Static content would be still cache in http.sys

by jask2002 28. March 2012 07:16
When setting Kernel mode cache via Output Cache module in IIS7.x , you can have any of following value set

kernelCachePolicy – can be DontCache | CacheUntilChange | CacheForTimePeriod | DisableCache (only in server).
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IIS 7: IP Address revealed on redirection requests on HTTP/1.0 protocol

by jask2002 9. February 2012 04:52
Recently worked on interesting case where internal IP address was revealed whenever we try to query through wfetch tool

Request Flow
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Client -> ISA -> IIS 7
x.x.x.30 ->x.x.x.10-> x.x.x.20
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