IIS

Make your website public

Gafvert has published another article, this one explains how to make you website available to the public through firewall and routers. This article will explain the necessary steps needed to make your website publicly available. Before starting you should have IIS installed (the article Install and configure IIS 6.0 to serve ASP, ASP.NET and static pages guides you through this) and secured. Read the article at source: Article: Make your website public.

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Display a list of all sites on the local IIS server and the bindings

Criss Crowe has published another cool script, this one will display the web site ID, the description and the bindings. Display a list of all sites on the local IIS server and the bindings (IP Address, TCP/IP Port, Host Header) that they have. More at source: Display a list of all sites on the local IIS server and the bindings (IP Address, TCP/IP Port, Host Header) that they have.

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IIS best practices list

Chris Adams did a post on a IIS best practices. He has compiled a list of resources and hints for IIS. It’s a great list which is highly useful for everyone working with IIS and especially to newcomers of IIS. Read his post at source: ChrisAd’s blog : Now that is a IIS best practices list worth saving….

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Displaying the Web Site ID and the Description

Criss Crowe has published a cool script to display the web site ID and description. With IIS 6 the Web Site ID is a randomly generated number for each site that is created other than the Default Web Site which has an Web Site ID of 1) Knowing which web site these being to is a problem as it requires you to manually look at each web site. The following script will allow you to …

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Application Center 2000 and Windows 2003 SP1

Stumbled across this hotfix from Microsoft, for Application Center 2000 SP2 when it runs on Windows Server 2003 SP1. The hotfix is needed when running Windows Server 2003 SP1, otherwise you could experience problems getting an AppCluster member into the AppCenter cluster. After you install Windows Server 2003 SP1 on a server that is running Application Center 2000, you experience one or more of the following problems: • When you try to connect to Localhost, …

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