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ASN1 Bad Tag Error Installing an SSL Certificate in IIS 7

April 9, 2009

You’ve installed SSL certificates on previous versions of IIS more times than you care to remember. It’s no rocket science – you create a certificate request, request the certificate from a Certification Authority, get the certificate and complete your certificate request. Then there’s IIS 7. Modularized. Optimized. Secure. You follow the same procedure as you [...]

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Released: PowerShell Snap-in For IIS 7

March 20, 2009

The big news from MIX09 is probably the release of Internet Explorer 8, but for shell aficionados, Exchange folks and scripting geeks, the release of IIS Snap-in for Windows PowerShell is not a lesser event. The snap-in has 71 cmdlets to manage IIS, from web application pools to web site configurations, bindings, and SSL. Download [...]

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Pretty Permalinks in WordPress: Rewriting URLs on IIS 7

December 22, 2008

I’ve been quite impressed with IIS 7 and the IIS blog in the past, and these guys continue to impress. If you’ve noticed some changes on Exchangepedia recently – yes, the design tweaks are ongoing, and no – I’ve not completed the move to WordPress yet. Although I’m looking at other alternatives — including some [...]

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IIS 7 Authentication: What happened to the IUSR_MachineName account?

July 8, 2008

In previous versions of IIS, the IUSR_MachineName account is created for anonymous authentication. This is an actual user account created on the server (a domain account can be used in domain environments), and like all user accounts— it has a SID, and an account password with the accompanying management costs and risks. One of the [...]

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NetCraft: IIS gaining ground on Apache

August 8, 2007

Internet research firm NetCraft reports Microsoft’s IIS web server is now gaining ground on its open-source rival Apache. Out of close to 128 million web sites surveyed this month, 34.2% use IIS – an increase of 1.4%. Apache’s marketshare slipped by 1.7%, to 48.4%. More in NetCraft’s August 2007 Web Server Survey. Update:Eric Lai reports [...]

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