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IIS.net is running on IIS 8.0 Beta!
Here at Microsoft we're pretty passionate about testing our own software.We often ask our customers to test the pre-release versions of our new software products, and we wouldn't ask our customers to...
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Extensibility Updates in the FTP 8.0 Service
A few years ago I wrote a blog that was titled "FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References", in which I discussed the extensibility APIs that we added in FTP 7.5. Over the next couple of years I followed...
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Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 3 - Missing Office Web Components for Charting
In Part 3 of this series, I'll explain what to do when you're missing the Office Web Components that are required for creating the charts that I have been demonstrating in this series.Here's a brief...
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Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 4 - Adding Custom Input Formats
In Part 4 of this series, I'll show you how you can do a couple of cool things:Create a new input format for Log Parser (and I'll use FTP RSCA data as an example)Create charts from your custom input...
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Using URL Rewrite with QDIG
One of the applications that I like to use on my websites it the Quick Digital Image Gallery (QDIG), which is a simple PHP-based image gallery that has just enough features to be really useful without...
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Windows Cache 1.3 for PHP 5.4
The IIS team has officially signed off on the Windows Cache Extension (WinCache) version 1.3 for PHP 5.4, and the files have been uploaded to SourceForge. This version addresses all of the problems...
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Programmatically Starting and Stopping FTP Sites in IIS 7 and IIS 8
I was recently contacted by someone who was trying to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) code to stop and restart FTP websites by using code that he had written for IIS 6.0; his code was...
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Using Classic ASP and URL Rewrite for Dynamic SEO Functionality
I had another interesting situation present itself recently that I thought would make a good blog: how to use Classic ASP with the IIS URL Rewrite module to dynamically generate Robots.txt and...
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Automating the Creation of FTP User Isolation Folders
A customer asked me a question a little while ago that provided me the opportunity to recycle some code that I had written many years ago. In so doing, I also made a bunch of updates to the code to...
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Adding Custom FTP Providers with the IIS Configuration Editor - Part 1
I've written a lot of walkthroughs and blog posts about creating custom FTP providers over the past several years, and I usually include instructions for adding these custom providers to IIS. When you...
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IIS 6.0 WebDAV and Compound Document Format Files Revisited with Workarounds
A few years ago I wrote the following blog, wherein I described how the WebDAV functionality in IIS 6.0 worked with files that are Compound Document format:IIS 6.0 WebDAV and Compound Document Format...
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Feedback Request for Curated Content Views
Publishing technical documentation is an interesting business, and a lot of discussion & deliberation goes into the creation process for articles and videos that we produce at Microsoft. For...
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Adding Custom FTP Providers with the IIS Configuration Editor - Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog series about adding custom FTP providers with the IIS Configuration Editor, I showed you how to add a custom FTP provider with a custom setting for the provider that is stored in...
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A Quick Discussion of Active and Passive FTP Connections
I get a lot of questions about Active versus Passive FTP Connections, specifically when people are configuring their FTP firewall settings as described in my articles like Configuring FTP Firewall...
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What's New in IIS 8.5?
Microsoft released the Windows 8.1 Preview on June 26, but some of the articles that the IIS team was working on for IIS 8.5 needed a little more work before we published them. That being said, those...
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How to Create a Blind Drop WebDAV Share
I had an interesting WebDAV question earlier today that I had not considered before: how can someone create a "Blind Drop Share" using WebDAV? By way of explanation, a Blind Drop Share is a path where...
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Updating my HTML Application for Configuring your WebDAV Redirector Settings
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog that was titled "How to create an HTML Application to configure your WebDAV Redirector settings", where I showed how to use HTMLA to create a simple editor for most...
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Revisiting My Classic ASP and URL Rewrite for Dynamic SEO Functionality Examples
Last year I wrote a blog titled Using Classic ASP and URL Rewrite for Dynamic SEO Functionality, in which I described how you could combine Classic ASP and the URL Rewrite module for IIS to dynamically...
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Rapid PHP Deployment for IIS using a Batch File
Whenever I am delivering a presentation where I need to use PHP, I typically use a batch file that I wrote in order to rapidly deploy PHP on the system that I am using for my demos. The batch file...
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RFC 7151 - File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts
I received an email yesterday from the RFC Editor that a new Request for Comments (RFC) document has just been published, RFC 7151, which adds support for a new "HOST" command to FTP. This new command...
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