Basics troubleshooting of IIS6
David Wang has done a post about how to do basic troubleshooting of IIS 6.0. He goes through some basic troubleshooting steps. Read his post at source: David Wang : HOWTO: Basics of IIS6 Troubleshooting.
Web server fingerprinting
Bernard has done a cool post about Web server fingerprinting, based on a small utility. Read his post at source: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0rn : Web server fingerprinting.
How to Easily Install AWStats on IIS 6
Need some good statistic software for reading the IIS logs. I can recommend AWStats, read the How to Install AWStats guide on IIS 6.0 by Chris Abraham. Read it at source: How to Easily Install AWStats on IIS 6 by Chris Abraham – Because the Medium is the Message. Get another great guide on how to Install Awstats on IIS in PDF format: http://www.ihsen.com/support/InstallingAWStatsOnIIS6.pdf
Isolating IIS FTP Users
Lazyadmin has publish an article about creating a FTP site using isolated users configuration, in this mode users are isolated based on the folder structure in the FTPRoot directory. Read the full article at source: Isolating IIS FTP Users – The Lazyadmin.com.
Microsoft IIS 5.1 exploit
Inge Henriksen has posted an exploit on IIS 5.1 (WinXP IIS 5.1 only). The exploit is a new .dll exploit. There’s already alot of information on several blogs about this exploit and Microsoft should be informed about this. A 0-day workaround would be to use URLScan to block for this exploit. Read Inge Henriksens post: Inge Henriksen’s Technology Blog: Microsoft IIS Remote DoS .DLL Url exploit. Read Bernard’s post about the exploit: Recent IIS 5.1 …