I tried to look it up, but couldn't google it... always comes up as MDAC. Can someone tell me what it stands for and what it does? ...more >>

Has anyone discovered resolutions to these errors that are displayed in the Event Manager of Windows 2000 for ISS? Event Type: Error Event Source: MSFTPSVC Event Category: None Event ID: 105 Date: 10/18/2003 Time: 10:08:57 AM User: N/A Computer: Description: The server was unable...more >>

I have a small site which allows users to submit forms and pictures online. The problem is that is that the server becomes unavailable after a certain amount of activity on the network. I am not sure if this is a IIS issue or network issue. The server is behing a Linksys Router (BEFSR81) a...more >>

I have a Windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0 installed. We have just noticed that some virtual directories can not be accessed from Windows 2000 clients, however, they are accessible from Windows XP clients. When this happens the usual error page is shown stating that the server was not found or the pa...more >>

I am trying to use IIS 5.0 SP4 has been applied. When I try to administer web sites I get the error "The server administration prgorams and the server extension on the web server are not compatible. The administration program is too old to use with this server." Now what? Doesn't the service pac...more >>

We need to restart IIS services on our win 2003 server every week now because of a problem with a another vendor's software (Aeries student information system for schools and their "aeries browser interface.") So is there a way to write a script or other method to AUTOMATICALLY shut down and r...more >>

what is the problem here? I turn on directory browsing on the ssl site to make sure the url is correct. I see the files listed, but they will not download. They will under the non ssl site at the same directory. THANKS!!! ...more >>

Can anyone provide me with info or links to info for setting up server-to-server SSL, using IIS 5.0? I understand all of the steps involving in setting up an SSL certificate on the servers. I'm just unable to find any good info on how to configure IIS and/or the applications themselves o...more >>

I setup SSL. Now users can see the site at port 80 and at port 443. i want to disable 80. How to? Thanks ...more >>

Somewhere I heard there is an IIS plug-in that allows users to share one document (excel, word, etc) online and submit update in real-time. Is this true? If so, what is it called?...more >>

Hello out there, Any one seen this one before? I am trying to map a new application via IIS 5.0 in the Application Configuration section for the default website and it will not let me do it? It let's me apply, but when I hit OK, then come back to the "application Configuration" window...more >>

First apologies for submitting this thread again but I am unable to reply to the original thread as some wierd error page keeps appearing when I try. So here it is again but updated from the original... I am in trial mode at the moment but can't seem to get the desired results. Can anybody help ple...more >>

I have upgraded a server to Windows 2003 Server and IIS 6, and have also installed the Windows Sharepoint Services. With this installation is has disabled several of my non-Sharepoint Service web sites. How come? and how can I make them available?...more >>

Hi, I need to set up a directory with nt username/password access. I have done this and removed the anonymous user from the directory and added full control for my new uid. The problem is that when I try and access an htm file in the directory it works fine. However, if I try and access a ...more >>

Any tips on making Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange 2000 work after installing IIS Lockdown V2.1 with URL scan (with OWA 2000 template selected)? Thanks. Dejan Ristic ...more >>

Hi there, I'm having a problem connecting to a default web site on IIS6 running on Windows Server 2003. When I try to connect to the default website it's prompting me for User and password even though it has allow anonymous enable and the security on the folder is set to everyone full acc...more >>

Hello, We're running IIS5 on 2 Windows 2000 Advanced Servers. One of our sites is being load balanced (through a Foundry load balancer). This site handles a large amount of traffic & file updates on one server must be updated in real-time to the other server. Currently, we use Peersync to replic...more >>

Hi, Further to our ASP 0147 (500 Internal Server Error) problem that we've been having, I managed to snaffle the following IISState log when the latest "hang" started happening. Anyone willing to analyse it and tell me what it means? :-) Cheers Ken -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...more >>

Dear Gurus, I'm hoping someone on this newsgroup with vast IIS experience can help me troubleshoot a painful uptime issue. We have 2 identical, load balanced servers (2K SP4 /IIS 5.0). However, over time one of the servers stops responding, and starts giving 500.13 server busy errors. I...more >>

Hi all, When I log on to my server as admin of the MACHINE I can open my website to edit it. I want to be able to logon to the server as admin of the DOMAIN and be able to edit the website. When I do this I'm prompted with a user, password, and domain box. I type in the DOMAIN admin user, p...more >>

I'm new to IIS 5 and was wondering if anybody can help me with setting up multiple web sites using one IP address properly. I know you use host header names and then use DNS server to list the names, but I'm not sure how to carry out these proedures properly so that everything works. I'v...more >>

Hi, we have an MFC app querying an SQL database over the internet, using ASP pages and COM. Mainly, the MFC app calls url such as http://myserver/mysite/myquery.asp?param1=something&param2=somthingelse. All the ASP are built in the way: 1. A COM object is created, connects to the SQL dat...more >>

I was uploading a file to my FTP server and got this message right when the file finished uploading: An error occured copying a file to the FTP server. Make sure you have permission to put files on the server. Details: The connection with the server was reset. Does anyone have any ide...more >>

A Network Scanning software tool indicated that the ISUR_[computername] and IWAM_[computername] do not have passwords. I have been told that these passwords are handled differently than a normal user account. Can someone point me to an article or explain how this process works so I can overcome this...more >>

Hi I'm using IIS on Windows 2000 Pro SP4, ASP.NET 1.1 and I have NOT explicitly enabled connection pooling.. If I use an standard ASP page I notice that even after I issue Connection.Close Set Connection = Nothing the "active connection" persists for roughly 60 seconds (this seems to be some kin...more >>

I'm using InternetWriteFile to send a file to an IIS 4 server. The connection and setup seem to work fine. I have given anonymous internet access permission to write in the directory on the server, but InternetWriteFile returns an error 12030. I look up the error code and it says: ER...more >>

The only thing I've found out that has changed on the server is that a new NIC card was put in, the IP address remained the same. Here are the errors I get in Event log, If there's somewhere else to look at for more info let me know. The IIS Admin service starts, then W3SRV and receives er...more >>

I want to test how an ASP .Net class handles secure mode. Can I, if so how, create an invalid SSL certification in IIS, I do not mind the resulting message box, to test? thanks....more >>

I am unable to launch any MS Office applications from an ASP. Two errors occur: The first one is: Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A0046) Permission denied: 'createobject' However all the permissions for the IUSR account are set correctly. The second result are five entries in the App Event Log...more >>

Hi I am currently investigating this problem with Microsoft and will post the solution if we find one! In the mean time, I wondered if anyone could offer any suggestions. In short, our issue is that after about 4-5 hours of running, IIS stops responding to ASP requests. When it stops,...more >>

Hello. I have a Windows 2000 Server machine running IIS 5.0 with Telnet disabled. FTP and HTTP are the only ports open on the machine. When attempting to telnet into the machine using "telnet Web-address 21" (where Web-address is either the IP address or FQDN of the machine and 21 repre...more >>

I have an ASP site that lauches an Access Database (OutOfProcess) which contains a report that calls a QueryDef that then calls a Pass-Through query to a SQL database (on a different server).... at least thats the theory. My understanding of why this is not working is that the OOP Acces...more >>

Hi, they assigned me a project at college, that consists in doing a control panel for administrating IIS. I am doing it in ASP because documentation is easier to find. I should be able to configure all with a unique server. But since I have to do a real simulation with 2 servers , in a way that from...more >>

I have recently installed SUS on my SBS2000 server which is running ISA, Exchange, SQL, IIS, etc. All of the proxy settings in SUS are setup correctly but I still cannot connect to the Microsoft Windows Update site. I can perform a normal Windows Update from this server but SUS will not ...more >>

hi I have set up iis 6 so that users can only view there own directory i have created the FTP site and chose isolate user option ( i am not using active directory on my server) i created a folder called LocalUsers under the ftp root folder and then created a folder called test1234 and a...more >>

Trying to get iis5 going on W2K Pro. I've loaded up the ms loopback adapter and enabled my default.htm file. I can ping localhost and 127.0.0.1. Inetinfo.exe is running. The personal web manager window tells me that Web publishing is on but the home page is not available because "Default D...more >>

I'm having problems with one of the intranet sites we're trying to implement. Your insights would be greatly appreciated. Currently, there are 3 intranet sites running and they are working properly. We use one static IP and different ports. We have an IIS server forwarding all request to ...more >>

I have recently registered and parked a domain name 'xyz.com' with my ISP; and obtained an IP address of 64.64.22.246, which is a reserved IP from the ISP's DHCP. I then installed and configured DNS server and IIS 5.0 with these domain name and IP address on a W2k Advance server. I also add a ...more >>

My two webservers as referred to below are in a NLB configuration also running AD I want to know this. All sites etc. are created with their FP 2002 extentions on the primary server. This also generates the admin groups for the respective sites. All web content is replicated with 3d pa...more >>

Hi- Recently we have moved from Windows 2000 to 2003. We have 2 servers a web edition server for our web site and Enteprise for our SQL server. Our old server were AMD 1800's and our new ones are Intel 2.8 Ghz Hyperthreading servers from Dell. Our site works great until it gets a lot of c...more >>

Here is the problem: BUG: ServerXMLHTTP send method sporadically fails with error 0x80072efd while requests are sent to same server When you use ServerXMLHTTP to send multiple requests (one at a time) to the same host, the method may start failing randomly and you may receive the following e...more >>