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This blog outlines the basic steps for setting up IIS Manager accounts so that they may be used for Web Deployment Tool delegation. Most of the steps particular to using IIS Manager users for delegation are required for connecting remotely using the Windows Management service, so if there are already accounts set up for remote management, that work has already been done. The following steps will allow IIS Manager accounts to be used for management service delegation. Step-by-step instructions with screen shots may be found for steps 1 through 4 on this page, with their section title added in parenthesis : http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/159/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-delegation-in-iis-70/ 1. Make sure that Windows Management Service is installed ( Configuring Remote Connections in IIS Manager ) 2. Enable remote connections for IIS users ( Enable Remote Connections and Configure Identity Credentials ) The previous steps only need to be performed once, however the following...
As we are aware that with the release of version 1 of IIS Database Manager came in the support for managing MySql Databases. This is a cool thing specially for all the PHP guys out there as MySql is extensively used with PHP applications all over the world. I being a PHP lover myself have been trying to configure the MySql part of IIS DB Manager. It looked pretty simple but turned out to be my miss that made me struggle to get MySql work with DB Manager for quite sometime now. There dint seem to...( read more ) Read More...
Microsoft has released a Beta of a new PHP accelerator named Windows Cache Extension for PHP. It's a pretty cool thing for anybody who deals with a lot of PHP applications on Windows because the way I see it and Microsoft explains is the same. We can now have even better performance from PHP applications! How? Basically, as the name suggests Windows Cache Extension is a caching technique which results in better performance results, as not every request asking for the same resource needs to go to...( read more ) Read More...
I recently took a couple of sessions on IIS 7 & 7.5 as part of Hyderabad Techies and "Tech-Ed on the Road" revival campaign here in Hyderabad, India. It was great to see the enthusiasm people had for different Microsoft technologies. We had sessions ranging from ASP.NET - Windows Azure and IIS - to SQL Server 2008. I was responsible for delivering sessions on IIS 7.5 which is going to ship along with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. I think I was kind of lucky in that sense, because there...( read more ) Read More...
First thing that you need to know in regard to the IIS PowerShell Snap-in or the module when using it with Windows 7 is that you do not need to download & install the snap-in. In Windows 7 the snap-in is part of the default install of IIS. Moving on, if you want to use the snap-in with PowerShell in Windows 7 RC then you would need to import the module. Now that sounds simple. However, there is a problem. When you try to import the IIS module which is named WebAdministration you are most likely...( read more ) Read More...
Dynamic IP Restrictions (DIPR) was created to give users a tool to help mitigate the effects of DOS attacks and certain brute-force password breaking attempts. The Out-Of-Band (OOB) feature description is (perhaps more elegantly) outlined on this page: http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions . In short, it is a handy tool that is easy to configure to protect a site/server from certain attacks. A bug was discovered in the Beta for Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7 for which a patch has been released. The bug affects users with site names longer than 22 characters. Installing the feature with a long site name and browsing to that site would result in a distinctive error in the Windows Application logs. To check whether your version of DIPR beta contains this update, check the Registry. If the value for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IIS Extensions\DynIpRst\Version is 7.1.0394.0, then the installed DIPR is not updated. This value should be 7.1.0487.0 for the updated...
Making PHP applications run efficiently and reliably on IIS 7 is one of our key goals. The IIS team is working with Zend to optimize the performance of PHP on IIS 7 and the results have been remarkable. In addition to performance improvements to PHP and IIS that make it a fast and reliable platform, installing PHP on Windows is quick and easy with Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta . The Windows Web Application Gallery has a number of popular PHP applications for IIS including WordPress , Acquia Drupal , SilverStripe , and Gallery 2 . This page on IIS.net: Running PHP Applications on IIS, has links to more information about PHP on IIS and configuring IIS to run PHP applications at their peak performance. The security, flexibility, and reliability of IIS 7 make it an ideal Web hosting platform and getting started with PHP on IIS 7 is easier than ever. So if you have been waiting for seamless PHP support to adopt IIS 7, now is the time to check it out. Read More...
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This topic has been covered many times both by Microsoft and non-Microsoft employees. However, I’ve recently been asked what the main features of IIS 7 are and have seen a great deal of misinformation about IIS security on twitter, blog posts and forums. I think, therefore, the issue deserves yet another look. In this post, I’m going to go over security in the past for IIS and then move on to talk about security features in IIS 7. These are not in any particular order. This post is not meant to diminish the many thoughtful works already created by others – both complimentary and critical. This is just meant to bring the subject back up for discussion again in hopes that you can be properly equipped with the decision making information you may need. Ghosts of IIS Security Past The reason for so much misinformation about the current state of security in IIS is likely due to the earned reputation the product had in versions previous to IIS 6.0. A quick search on the web for IIS 5 security...
Recently I spoke with someone on Twitter who was having issues running CakePHP on IIS. With all the talk about ASP.NET MVC on IIS, folks forget that the MVC pattern works in other languages as well. CakePHP provides MVC development on PHP. That said, I wanted to dive in and see what the issues were involved in getting this project up and running on IIS 7. I managed to get it installed pretty quickly, but it does take a little tweaking to get you up and running. I've chronicled my adventures with CakePHP below in case anyone else is having issues. That said, I must first say that I am not an expert working with CakePHP. This was my first experience with the project, so this information is provided "as-is" and should be taken with a grain of salt. With this demo, I’ll be walking through the " Cake Blog Tutorial ” offered on cakephp.org, and modifying it as needed to work with IIS 7. That said, let's get started. Prerequisites Install: IIS 7 on Windows 2008 Server...
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