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Migrating FPSE Roles Between Servers

I ran into one of those strange situations the other day where you feel like you've been doing the same thing on your computer at some time in the distant past - kind of like déjà vu for geeks. In this specific case, I was moving some web sites that I am hosting for other people that still use FPSE from an older physical server to a new virtual server that is hosted through Hyper-V. (I'm also trying to convert them all to WebDAV, but that's another story.) Anyway, I had dozens of custom FPSE roles...( read more ) Read More...

Creating Recursive Directory Listing Files for FTP Clients

One of the changes that we made in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 was to remove recursive directory listings, which are commonly retrieved by typing " ls -lR " from a command-line FTP client, which should send a command like " NLST -lR " over FTP to the server. There were several reasons why we decided to remove recursive directory listings, but the main reason was simply to reduce CPU usage on the server; recursive directory listing requests take a lot of resources to fulfill. With that in mind, both FTP 7...( read more ) Read More...

A Little Scripting Saved My Day (;-])

I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I tend to write many of my blog posts and walkthroughs for IIS.NET based on code that I’ve written for myself, and today’s blog post is the story of how one of my samples saved my rear over this past weekend. One of the servers that I manage is used to host web sites for several friends of mine. (It’s their hobby to have a web site and it’s my hobby to host it for them.) Anyway, sometime on Sunday someone let me know that one of my sites didn’t seem to...( read more ) Read More...

Automating IIS 7 Backups

Many years ago I wrote the following KB article: How To Schedule Metabase Backups Using WSH Truth be told, I wrote the script in that article to help me manage several servers that I controlled. Once I finished the script, I found myself routinely giving it out to customers in order for them to automate their backups, so I decided to turn it into a KB. When IIS 6 came out, Microsoft shipped the IIsBack.vbs script to help customers automate backups. One of the great things in IIS 7 is the deprecation...( read more ) Read More...

Enabling WebDAV on IIS 6

I had a great question from someone the other day about enabling WebDAV on IIS 6, so I wrote a simple Windows Script Host (WSH) utility that does the trick. Because I'm a firm believer that writing code for one person will ultimately benefit someone else, I'm making that script the subject of today's blog post. ;-) Note : The following script makes use of several IIS 6 metabase properties, and you can see the following topics for more information: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525087...( read more ) Read More...

Creating XML Reports for FSRM Quota Usage

I had a great question in follow up to the " Secure, Simplified Web Publishing using Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 " webcast that I delivered the other day, "How you can you programmatically access the quota usage information from the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)?" First of all, there is a native API for writing code to access FSRM data detailed at the following URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625489.aspx That's a bit of overkill if you're just looking to script...( read more ) Read More...

Scripting MIDI Events in Sibelius

OK - I have to admit, when you realize that you are making software choices based on scripting language support you start to get the feling that there are times when you just have to accept the fact that you are a geek. Here's a case in point: I write music as a hobby, and when shopping for a program to write sheet music with, I chose Sibelius because I discovered that they have a really cool scripting language called "ManuScript". OK - so the name is kind of silly, but it's pretty cool to write...( read more ) Read More...