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IIS Team releases more cool modules

Steve Schofield Weblog — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:16:00 GMT

The IIS Team has been releasing some really cool modules of late. Check them out. Also, keep an eye on http://blogs.iis.net for all the latest news! URLRewrite module http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/09/11/url-rewrite-module-go-live-release.aspx...(...(read more)

CDOSYS and Windows Server 2008, 80070005 Description Access is denied

Steve Schofield Weblog — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:24:00 GMT

I got a question from Bradley J. Dinerman about getting Aspmail working on Windows Server 2008. I've yet to figure out how to get AspEmail working on Windows Server 2008, I tried x64 and x86 of Windows Server 2008. I got the following error. Process monitor...(...(read more)

IIS6 to IIS7 migration tips / tricks.

Steve Schofield Weblog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:39:00 GMT

Here are a few gotcha's that I personally came across both in the forums and migrations I've done from IIS6 to IIS7. A lot of the confusion I see in the forums is Classic ASP and 'native' applications using COM+ trying to move to IIS 7. A classic ASP...(...(read more)

Powershell Script, WMI to get DNS settings.

Steve Schofield Weblog — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:36:00 GMT

A while ago I wrote my disappointment about Powershell and trying to pick up the syntax. I've scripted for years with WSH / VBS, ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET and some C#. I was used to Visual Studio and the rich debugging support. Coming from a web developer...(...(read more)

URLScan 3.0 rtw (release to web) available

Steve Schofield Weblog — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:53:00 GMT

I have to give kudo's to the Microsoft IIS team for updating URLScan to help block automated sql injection attacks. Especially to Wade Hilmo and Nazim Lala . They have been very responsive when it came to involving the community (Thanks guys for the w3c...(...(read more)

SQL Server reference KB article on rollups

Steve Schofield Weblog — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:41:00 GMT

I was looking for a sql server 2005 rollup. Here is a KB article that has all of them. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137...( read more )...(read more)

Send email with powershell cmd-let

Steve Schofield Weblog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:17:00 GMT

I've been reading the Powershell newsgroup, which is pretty much the authoritative source for community help. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.powershell For those who want to send email...(...(read more)

Getting CDONTS to work on Windows Server 2008 x64

Steve Schofield Weblog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:12:00 GMT

A few questions come up in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net about people moving Classic ASP applications that use CDONTS. CDONTS was introduced in NT4 and was widely popular. With the success of ASP applications 'back in the day', many used CDONTS to...(...(read more)

Enable Loopback adapter on Windows Server 2008

Steve Schofield Weblog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:18:00 GMT

netsh int ipv4 set int "Loopback Adapter" weakhostreceive=enabled weakhostsend=enabled netsh int ipv4 set int "Local Area Connection" weakhostreceive=enabled weakhostsend=enabled...( read more )...(read more)

UNC caching information in forums.iis.net post

Steve Schofield Weblog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:08:00 GMT

Here is a post in forums.iis.net that is worthy of an complete article. http://forums.iis.net/t/1150447.aspx It addresses caching on a UNC path where the server is a non-OS file server. It's a Novell server using CIFS. If you have documents on a Samba...(...(read more)

Google free Web App security scanner

Steve Schofield Weblog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:04:00 GMT

Google giving away free Web App security scanner: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080703/tc_pcworld/147917 Cheers, Steve...( read more )...(read more)

IIS7 - post #70 - IIS 7.0 podcast by Steve Schofield

Steve Schofield Weblog — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:48:00 GMT

I've listened to a lot of podcasts and never "until now" did a podcast. Craig Shoemaker approached me about doing a podcast. The podcast was real easy! All I had to do was talk about the subject I've been involved with since December 2005, IIS 7.0. We...(...(read more)

Misc Powershell links

Steve Schofield Weblog — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:38:00 GMT

For my own reference. Freenode IRC network: irc.freenode.net Web client at powershelllive.com/irc Newsgroup name microsoft.public.windows.powershell www.PowerScripting.net www.PowerShellCommunity.org...( read more )...(read more)

SQL Injection rule explaination of what is actually scanned by URLScan

Steve Schofield Weblog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:52:00 GMT

One of the things I was curious what URLScan actually scanned and how. What is just some server variables or what?! I asked Wade H from the IIS Team for further explaination. It is good to be aware when you are implementing URLScan 3.0 and sql injection...(...(read more)

Tool to help detect SQL Injection

Steve Schofield Weblog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:21:00 GMT

Here is a tool to help detect sql injections. You have to sign-up for the free tool, but it's worth it. http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2008/06/23/finding-sql-injection-with-scrawlr.aspx Hope this helps...( read more...(read more)