The Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) SP 2 release has substantial improvements including:
* Support for running on 64-bit machines in 32-bit emulation mode
* Support for Reverse Proxy and Alternate URL support
* Support for IP Bound virtual servers
* Support for off-box SSL termination
* Support for SQL Server 2005
* Support for ASP.NET 2.0
You can get specific information about this update in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (887624): Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2.
Download at source: Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft has released SP2 for Windows SharePoint Services.
Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates. This service pack combines them into one update.
This service pack includes updates previously released for Windows SharePoint Services:
* Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1
* Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services: KB887981
SP2 also includes stability improvements developed as a result of user input from the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis in Windows SharePoint Services and from Microsoft Product Support feedback.
You can get specific information about this update in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (887624): Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2.
Download at source: Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2)
The MSCOM Team has posted an articles about their migration to a fully x64 environment. It’s an really interesting article.
We began testing the Windows Server x64 Edition of the O/S in early April 2004 with a single “white box” AMD64 reference machine and finally rolled it out across the board for www.microsoft.com at the end of April 2005.
Read the article at source: Microsoft.com Operations : Running Microsoft.com on 64 Bit…The Dependencies, The Goodness, the Gotcha’s.
Michael Klomp has posted an article about using LogParser and RDDTool for IIS Monitoring.
He’s done a great job in describing all the scripts and the configurations needed, so you’ll be able to configure a RDDTool/LogParser Monitoring setup for yourself.
Read his article at source: Monitoring IIS with Logparser and the RRDtool.
Wanna do scripting with IIS, Microsoft has some good resources with sample scripts.
* Using Command-Line Administration Scripts (IIS 6.0)
You can use scripts to automate tasks, remotely administer sites and resources, and take advantage of batch files to create and manage objects.
* TechNet Script Repository: IIS 6
Sample scripts for managing Internet Information Server 6.0.
* TechNet Script Repository: IIS 5.0 and 5.1
Sample scripts for managing Internet Information Server 5.0 and 5.1.
So far I’ve done quite a lot of administration scripting on IIS 6. I’ll try and get my scripts together an post them here on my site, so everyone can get use of them.
Here’s a reference to the IIS 6 documentation pages at the Microsoft TechNet site.
Some of the pages keep getting updated, check the revision summary for an overview of the changes.
* IIS 6.0 Content Revision Summary: Describes the changes made to the IIS 6.0 documentation since Windows Server 2003 was released in April 2003, as well as changes made for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
* IIS 6.0 Deployment Guide: Provides prescriptive, task-based, and scenario-based guidance to help you design and deploy an IIS 6.0 solution that meets the specific needs of your organization.
* IIS 6.0 Operations Guide: Provides documentation about getting started with IIS 6.0, common administrative tasks, Web site setup, server administration, security, performance tuning, logging, error messages, troubleshooting, metabase and registry references, and Web application development.
* IIS 6.0 Technical Reference: Provides an in-depth description of the new IIS 6.0 architecture, as well as reference information about IIS 6.0 features and services. It also includes practical information and tools to help you accomplish everyday administrative tasks.
* Metabase Property Reference (IIS 6.0): This section contains reference pages for each of the Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 metabase properties. Most of these properties can be changed using IIS Manager. You can also use the methods of the IIS Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider or the IIS Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) provider in command-line scripts to change these properties.
Henrik Walther has writen a great article about using a free 3rd party SSL certificate on a website, in his case on a OWA 2003 website.
The certificates used in his article is from an Israeli company called Smartcom Ltd, who’s offering free SSL certificates. They believe that the right to use SSL certificates should not be bound to the financial capabilities of individuals and/or institutions, companies, organizations.
Read his article at MSExchange.org: SSL Enabling OWA 2003 Using a Free 3rd Party Certificate
SecurityFocus had a great article approx 2 years ago about using LogParser as a forensic tool, their article demonstrates log file forensics of IIS logs using SQL queries with Microsoft’s LogParser tool.
LogParser is an awesome tool that can be great in facilitating log files in general.
Read the full articles at SecurityFocus: Forensic Log Parsing with Microsoft’s LogParser.
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