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HOWTO: Sharepoint and CustomAuth, Part 2 - Investigations Update
About a month ago, I solicited user questions in this blog entry on how to integrate customized authentication protocol with Sharepoint, and I was a little overwhelmed by the responses and the variety...
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HOWTO: Install Virtual Server VM Additions Unattended
Question:I was wondering if it is possible not to have the virtual machine additions installation eject the iso image after installing, maybe an undocumented switch.I have created a custom OS...
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HOWTO: Detect Process Bitness
In an ideal world, everything runs as native bitness (64bit program on 64bit OS, 32bit program on 32bit OS) and life goes on. However, sometimes you need to run that legacy 32bit program on a 64bit OS...
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HOWTO: Install and run PHP on IIS7
Question:Hi all,I have trouble to configure PHP 5 (CGI mode) in IIS 7 on Vista 5308...What I did:- Download and unpack PHP- set user permission to PHP folder AND script folder (IIS_IUSRS and Internet...
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HOWTO: Run Console Applications from IIS6 on Windows Server 2003
Question:I need some help on the following: I am trying to exectute the netstat comand in side a PHP script using PHP on a wnidows server 2003. The problem is that i am haveing a problem getting the...
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HOWTO: Maximize the Number of Concurrent Connections to IIS6
Question:I'm considering building a realtime ASP.NET application on IIS6, that'll need to support about 3,000 simultaneous users on a server, each with a keep-alive HTTP connection for "server...
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HOWTO: Get Field Data for Custom Logging with ISAPI Filter
Question:I'm trying to write a Filter that handles writing a W3C-compliant log file based on a special set of criteria. I have found most of the needed information in GetServerVariables(), but I still...
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HOWTO: Perform VHD Maintenance Automatically
Question:I would like to have a night script to run on guest machines and perform the following tasks:1. start / restore from saved state if machine is not running (preferably disconnected from network...
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HOWTO: Retrieve Request Headers using ISAPI, ASP, and ASP.Net
Developers frequently confuse Request Headers, Response Headers, and Server Variables as well as the appropriate syntax to retrieve/manipulate each of them, depending on the API (ISAPI, ASP, and...
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HOWTO: Run Console Applications from IIS6 on Windows Server 2003, Part 2
I finally have enough blog entries about various portions of IIS6 request processing that I can stitch together this meta-blog-entry explaining how it all works together and then apply it towards an...
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HOWTO: Rename the Computer running IIS6
Question:Hi ,I have two web servers. One web server(w2k3Ent) and IIS 6.0 in a work group and One identical Web Server in the Domain. I want to now rename the Server names of the both, to comply some...
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HOWTO: Useful ASP page to return configurable HTTP Status codes
Sometimes, you just want a simple test page on IIS to do some automated testing of your code that interacts with IIS. Here is another useful one in the series.Question:Hi,I have some negative testing...
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HOWTO: Access POST form data with ISAPI
This is a frequently asked question about IIS6 extensibility - how to access the request entity body on the way in - as well as how to configure IIS.Question:I want to catch all incoming requests, add...
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HOWTO: Useful ASP page to retrieve Request and send Response Headers
I am finishing up on the series of ASP pages that show how to:Send Responses of arbitrary Status CodeSend Responses with arbitrary types of Entity BodySend Responses with arbitrary Headers (this entry)...
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HOWTO: Enumerate IIS website and ftpsite configuration (VBScript using ADSI)
I recently got a request to make a script to illustrate how to enumerate useful values from both Web and FTP sites serviced by IIS, so I decided to make some additions to the original script tool...
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HOWTO: Install and Run PHP on IIS7, Part 2
A couple of months ago, I wrote a quick and dirty entry on how to install PHP on IIS7. The main purpose of that entry was to explain the details of what was going on as well as cookie-cutter...
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HOWTO: Install and Run PHP on IIS7, Part 3
A short while ago, I came out with a small script to properly configure PHP for IIS7. Sure enough, I got asked to make a similar one for IIS6. So, I figure that while I am at it, I might as well cover...
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HOWTO: Diagnose One Cause of "%1 is not a valid Win32 application" on IIS6 on...
Question:I have a new development server that i put together on a Windows 2003 64 bit machine. I also have SQL Server 2005 and Developers Studio 2005 and 2003 installed on this machine. I have...
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HOWTO: Monitor Virtual Server Events
I think Virtual Server Events and Asynchronous Tasks are two of the least utilized features of the Virtual Server Administration API.Contrary to the often-asked task of "find the VM, turn it off,...
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HOWTO: Convert between JScript Array and VB Safe Array
I recently got a question about how to manipulate the LIST data type within JScript since my sample code only illustrated VBScript.Well... one reason why that example is in VBScript is because LIST...
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