Being a System Administrator as well as a Web Developer I run into issues with the Mail protocol SMTP. Things hang or people want their email better formatted. Or simply test out you spam messages you are going to blast before you well blast them. Of course you run into issues like is my ports open correctly, is the SMTP server setup to block relaying? Has my domain been blacklisted from spamming? These kind of questions are important. While I can’t fix the blacklisting domain issue the rest is well...
Its easy to forget about the –debug parameter, but a lot of times it can be very helpful, especially with NetCmdlets where in many cases –debug will output the protocol interface (the “PITrail” as we call it at /n software) of the connection. The PITrail includes a trail of communication between the cmdlet and the remote host it is talking to. Rob emailed me to ask for help diagnosing a 425 error he was getting when using the NetCmdlets get-ftp cmdlet. As I described to Rob, in a nutshell the 425...
I have been coding using Microsoft technologies for a long while. Recently I was given the chance to do a little bit of web mastering. Due to my system admin background I was most definitely game for this. Learning IIS 6.0 was not a huge leap as I had done a lot of development using IIS5.1(Windows XP Professional); however I had not as yet used Host headers in IIS (IIS 5.1 only allows for one site. I will post about that later.). This was a learning experience (Don’t even get me started on the issue...
Had a problem with WCF that I thought I should blog about. We're in the scenario where we have a WCF service that needs to call another service to do some calculating and then return the result back to the client. For now, the service is hosted on the same server, but eventually, it could get expensive, so we'll push out that calculation to another server. The WCF configuration also has an endpoint address that is not the same as the base address reported to it by IIS; IIS is of course reporting...
I being a very intelligent web developer (This is true). Decided it might be fun to delete the Default Web Site in IIS6.0 not thinking much of it. Of course it wouldn't have mattered at all, at least until I decided to install commerce server 2007 enterprise on the production server that I had deleted the Default Web Site. Why was this a problem you ask? Wow good question. Here's the long and short of it. When installing Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 sp1 you can get about oh I'd say 5 minutes into...
The former Ohio Developer Evangelist and now IIS Evangelist in Redmond, Drew Robbins, discusses what changes are coming out in IIS 7 and how it is different than IIS 6 and IIS 5. Drew is one of my favorite Microsoft employees and is a very sharp guy. Click here to find out more about IIS 7. Definitely check out the shared configuration logic. Listen to Drew talk about IIS 7! Technorati tags: HDC, Drew Robbins, IIS...
Now, I have, up until now, not had any experience with proxy servers. Well, to be honest, I still don't... But I do have some experience with IIS as I have been using it since the sad old days of NT4. Yes that's right, before Active Directory, The bad old days when domains were the work of a craftsman. Anyhoo, my brother David called with a little problem with .pac files for a proxy server. My first though was that I did not know a dam thing about proxy servers, except that annoying "Access Denied"...
A Netcraft June Survey shows that IIS is catching up to Apache quite well. Neowin.net has the scoop. Excerpt "The number of hostnameson Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to 61.25%" Technorati : Apache, IIS, Netcraft...