If you are into Microsoft IIS community, then you must know Brett :) He is the so called IIS guru, expert, etc. Brett has been specialized in IIS for many years and he is also the author for the famous IIS Insider at Microsoft.com. Just heard from Brett that he is moving to Microsoft :) He will be the Server Evangelist in IIS team. He is the 2nd person get into the team after Alun (the ftp guy), and of coz both are MVPs.
Anyway, I want to congrats Brett again and update everyone here. Brett tell us that we will be 'amazed' when we see IIS 7. With him onboard, I have no doubt that IIS 7 will be even better.
It's out now :) Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit ! get it at major online bookstores. You will be amazed by how powerful and flexible this tiny parser can do, it will parse almost any log that you can find in Windows OS. It is a must have tool for Windows sysadmin. While I'd contributed two chapters that mainly related to IIS, there are many cool stuff that you will learn about parsing Snort IDS, ISA, Exchange, Event viewer, File system, and many types of log file. You can also visit Logparser.com for discussion that is dedicated to Log Parser.
I'm back from CNY holiday :) Now, this is just fabulous ! register yourself for 4 straight live events in the IIS Webcast series and you will walk away with a free gift (worth $30 to $75 USD).
Starting February of coz, click here for complete IIS webcast series.
from my headphone, it is singin..
Now what the hell are you waitin for
After me, there shall be no more
So for one last time, nigga make some noise
Get em Jay.........
Just in case, you are not aware that this coming Wednesday or 9th Feb is the first day of Chinese New Year, as usual I'll be offline for a week ! Horayyyyyyy !! I'm going back home town late tonight ! I do check mail from time to time, so mail me if you need anything. Cheers.
Go go go ! lazy to type :) read the story here and the top 6 features -
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-Modularized Webcore allows you to add and remove functionality based on your needs. If you only want to serve static content, you need only a few modules (and not ISAPI, for example).
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-A unified HTTP pipeline for native and managed applications alike. You'll be able to use forms-based authentication for classic ASP pages.
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-You can build your own IHttpModule and IHttpHandlers, and plug them into the unified pipeline.
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-A new, distributed XML configuration system that takes advantage of ASP.NET's configuration system.
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-Improved diagnostics and troubleshooting, including new runtime state and tracing features.
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-A new, extensible, task-oriented admin user interface.
Mm.. 6 features? Remember TryIIS.com, there's 6 new reasons posted for why users should pick up IIS 6. So it would be nice to have Top 7 features for IIS 7, agree ? so what's the 7th feature?
-> A new, simplify debugging and tracing mechanism to allow easier application debugging.
Because, it's very hard to know what's breaking the application and most of time it's due to badly written apps, however, the blame goes to the 'bloody IIS' server :)
824058 MSCS Resource Monitor may stop responding in Internet Information Server 4.0
889651 How to assign a private key to a new certificate after you use the Certificates snap-in to delete the original certificate in Internet Information Services
842002 An e-mail message takes a long time to open in Outlook Web Access, and the Exchange Server-based computer is running IIS 5.0
838369 BUG: You cannot use an asterisk ("*") character to configure a redirection to a URL with Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager in Internet Information Services 6.0
841460 You may experience performance problems when you use the URL authorization feature of IIS 6.0
Getting Delegation to Work with IIS & ASP.NET—Ins and Outs of Protocol Transition—Part I (Level 300)
Internet applications depend on a presentation layer that communicates with server-based components. These components can be ISAPIs, COM+ objects, or ASP.NET applications. This webcast explains how to produce a robust application that's also configured for enhanced security. The topics include using Basic or NTLM authentication and transitioning those authentication methods to a back-end SQL server running SQL Server 2000.
Getting Delegation to Work with IIS & ASP.NET—Ins and Outs of Protocol Transition—Part II (Level 300)
Building on the previous webcast, this session explains how to integrate IIS applications into a 2- or 3-tier environment. Learn how to activate and use protocol transitioning and other delegation mechanisms. Attendees should be familiar with Microsoft's Active Directory, IIS process architecture, and the use of COM+ or ASP.Net applications.
I was catching up newsgroups posting as well as reading my RSS feeds, and I found this “Geez...can I get some training on IIS or what? “ A quiz from IIS team directly :) after reading through, I myself wasn't sure whether I can answer all, but I'm going to try. Here's what I have:
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1. What functionality does the metabase property "DisableSocketPooling" offer in IIS 6.0?
This property has no effect on IIS6 :) try -
IIS 6.0: Setting Metabase Property DisableSocketPooling Has No Effect
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=813368
Note: I bookmarked hundred of IIS KBs, so it's not from Mr. Google :)
2. What type of Windows security token is obtained for logon's in IIS 6.0 for anonymous and basic authentication?
I hope you mean logon type, if yes, it's NETWORK_CLEARTEXT.
3. What two policies must be added for process accounts if running CGI applications on IIS 6.0?
You need the following:
Adjust memory quotas for a process
Replace a process level token.
4. On Domain Controllers, how many IIS_WPG groups should exist and what accounts should be members of those groups on IIS 6.0?
On a DC ? Err, I don't have any IIS running on DC :) but I know only one IIS_WPG group exist, as for the member, let me guess, default is standalone, we have
IWAM,LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SYSTEM
After Dcpromo, it would be the same !
5. What members of the Windows Server Family are Network Load Balancing available in Windows Server 2003 for IIS 6.0?
Ohh, tricky ! the answer is all edition. Side question, which edition does Windows Storage Server 2003 belong to ?
6. How can one disable Kerberos on IIS?
How To Configure IIS to Support Both Kerberos and NTLM Authentication
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=215383
so running the following command will disabled Kerberos.
cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/NTAuthenticationProviders “NTLM”
7. Is there a mechanism in Windows Server 2003 to ensure effective usage of the CPU for web applications? What is it?
Something call CPU Monitoring for application pools. (performance tab of app pool property)
8. What is the name of the compatibilty mode in IIS 6.0?
Easy ! IIS 5.0 isolation mode.
9. Name 3 command-line utilities available for editing IIS 6.0?
Let's see, the most famous one 'adsutil.vbs', 'iisapp.vbs', iiscnfg, iisback, iisext, etc
10. What memory settings should be added for Application Pools if you are running ASP.Net v1.0\v1.1?
Don't quite get you. you mean .config file or application pool property ? running in WP or IIS5 isolation mode, right ? still blur :)
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Now, let's see, I was guessing on No.4 and skip on No.10. Anyway, I already got the book - 'IIS 6.0 Resource Kit'. I want Halo2 !!! still waiting for my company store free money $$$.