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PowerShell: Create Human-readable Shortcuts to IIS Log File Directories
Jul 18, 2014 · 2 min read ·
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About 8 years ago, I wrote a blog post that provided a VBScript to create easy-to-read shortcuts to IIS Log directories. W3SVC56 just wasn't helpful enough to identify which website logs to which directory.
Today, I ported that same script to PowerShell. I'm too lazy to explain, so this is what it does: …

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HOW-TO Setup Windows 2012 Server Core Remote Desktop Services to Securely Administer Windows over RDP and SSL
Mar 4, 2013 · 4 min read ·
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Read this updated post instead. It's superior in a number of ways ;)
Alright, so I've wanted to setup a Remote Desktop Gateway for years, but the configuration seemed so.. time-intensive. Then I moved to Belgium, my living situation changed and I didn't want to setup a whole new VPN server to access my virtual lab. …

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Map a Secure SharePoint 2010/IIS Network Drive over SSL and WebDAV in Windows 7
Feb 6, 2012 · 1 min read ·
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Once, after viewing a SharePoint 2010 document library in Windows Explorer, I ran a net use and saw that Windows 7 had stored the credentials of my SSL-secured SharePoint intranet server. It took a bit of fiddling, but I eventually found you can, in fact, map a secure network drive using the command line:
net use W: …

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IIS: Authentication Fails with Error Code 2148074254
Sep 30, 2009 · 2 min read ·
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Recently, we migrated a web application to a SharePoint server. The web application is a custom built ASP/ASPX app that supports Integrated Windows Authentication. We were able to run the application successfully using Anonymous Access but we were unable to authenticate from remote computers when Anonymous Access was …
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PowerShell 1.0: Adding Virtual FTP Directories to IIS 6 or 7
Jul 29, 2007 · 2 min read ·
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While my firm explores using WebDAV and SharePoint 2007 for exchanging large amounts of files, we're temporarily using FTP dropboxes to fill the void. Last Monday, I setup 11 new accounts and it took a total of one hour to complete the same 15 step process (give or take) for each account. By the time I was finished, I …
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Rules for High Performance Websites
Apr 29, 2007 · 2 min read ·
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Last week, I attended the Web 2.0 Expo at Mascone Center in San Francisco where I watched Steve Souders of Yahoo speak. His workshop was titled High Performance Webpages and has a yet-to-be published O'reilly book by the same name (though the Rough Cuts version is currently available for download). The basis of his …
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Classic ASP: "Push" File Downloads from A Directory Outside the Application Root
Jan 22, 2007 · 3 min read ·
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This is some super old code but I used it recently and figured I'd archive it on this site for my future reference. The sample code below aims to allow authenticated users to download files which are not available via direct download (ie. files within the web root). The script accomplishes this by doing the following: …
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OWA: Expired Password Causes Execute Access Forbidden
Jan 16, 2007 · 1 min read ·
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Recently, a user trying to login to OWA encountered the following error:
HTTP 403.1 Forbidden: Execute Access Forbidden You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed.
Another network administrator noticed that the URL was strange …

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VBScript: Windows XP/IIS 5.1 DOES Support Denying Access by IP Addresses
Jan 9, 2007 · 3 min read ·
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In helping a visitor to troubleshoot running my IIS FTP ban script, I realized that while XP makes it appear as though it doesn't support banning users by IP address, it actually does provide that support; you just have to ban the IPs programatically. …
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VBScript: Kerberos, Delegation, IIS and User Authentication
Dec 13, 2006 · 2 min read ·
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Recently, I wanted to write a web-based front end to AD User Management for our help desk. The way that I set it up apparently broke some Kerberos delegation rules and even though Microsoft wrote a step-by-step guide on how to get IIS and Kerberos delegation going, the solution didn't work for me. If I turned off …
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