June 2011 - Posts
Today's lesson covers how to create an Active Directory domain and join a member server to it. This week's topic takes a slightly different turn from the normally IIS related topics, but this is key video to help setup either a test or production environment that requires Active Directory.
Part of being a web administrator is understanding the servers and how they interact with each other. This week’s lesson takes a different path than usual and covers how to create an Active Directory domain and how to join a member computer to that domain. In less than 13 minutes we complete the entire process, end to end. An understanding of Active Directory is useful, whether it’s simply to setup a test lab, or to learn more so that you can manage a production domain environment.
This week starts a mini-series on web farms. Today’s lesson is on setting up a domain which is a necessary prerequisite for next week which will be on Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R), a useful technology for web farms. Upcoming lessons will cover shared configuration, Application Request Routing (ARR), and more.
Additionally, this video introduces us to Vaasnet (www.vaasnet.com), a service that allows the web pro to gain immediate access to an entire lab environment for situations such as these.
This is week 26 (the middle week!) of a 52 week series for the Web Pro. Past and future videos can be found here: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/
You can find this week’s video here.
URL Rewrite offers tremendous flexibility for customizing rules to your environment. One area of functionality that is often desired for URL Rewrite is to allow a large list of approved or denied IP addresses and subnet ranges.
IIS’s original IP Restrictions is helpful for fully blocking an IP address, but it doesn’t offer the flexibility that URL Rewrite does.
An example where URL Rewrite is helpful is where you want to allow only authorized IPs to access staging.yoursite.com, but where staging.yoursite.com is part of the same site as www.yoursite.com. This requires conditional logic for the user’s IP.
This lesson covers this unique situation while also introducing Rewrite Maps, server variables, and pairing rules to add more flexibility.
This is week 25 of a 52 week series for the Web Pro. Past and future videos can be found here: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/
You can find this week’s video here.
IIS’s Web Gardens are a highly misunderstood feature in IIS ever since they were first introduced in IIS 6.0. This week’s lesson discusses why it’s rarely worth using Web Gardens and why using them is often detrimental to your server’s performance. This lesson is a type of anti-pattern on what to avoid, while also covering good theory and pointers to better practices that can be used instead.
This is week 24 of a 52 week series for the Web Pro. This week’s topic is foundational in properly understanding the security sandbox boundaries in IIS. Past and future videos can be found here: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/
You can find this week’s video here.
This week's video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server.
Securing IIS is a necessary step that every web administrator needs to perform to properly prepare their web server with the best configuration. This week’s video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server. We cover the application pool identity, the anonymous user, the new IIS 7.0/7.5 setting for the anonymous user, and more.
This is week 23 of a 52 week series for the Web Pro. This week’s topic is foundational in properly understanding the security sandbox boundaries in IIS. Past and future videos can be found here: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/
You can find this week’s video here.
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