It's an Enterprise CA, in contact with active directory. But web based certificate requests fail with the following error reported in Internet Explorer (6.0, security set to medium): Failed to create 'CertificateAuthority.Request' object. When I look in various logs, the only relevant entry...more >>

I seem to have a random problem with session variables that did not exist with IIS 5 If you load this page https://wic005u.server-secure.com/vs149732_secure/testcart2.asp and press F5 a couple of time you will eventually get this error << Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a138f' 'SC' ...more >>

Have a Win2k3 server performing as a Web server. At random times, the server will stop accepting HTTP traffic. A look at the services and the services are running...stop and restart the W3SVC service and all works again. Only errors in event viewer looks like a disconnect from the net...more >>

hi all i have installed IIS 5.0 and Visual Studio 2002 lately. After which i created a Visual C# project (ASP.net Application). In the webform, i drag labels, textbox and button. When i try to "run with debug", the only thing that displays in the output window, is the label. The rest of the textbo...more >>

Hello All, I have a client with a Dell Server running Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 with an SSL cert on their website. Only one directory is configured with the cert. I can access the website except for any link that takes me to the secure directory. I get an error: "The page cannot be displayed" "...more >>

Hi, A website of mine uses CDONTS to send a visitor and myself an e-mail, after s/he has entered some information. It used to work all fine, until (don't ask me why! :)) I decided to uninstall the SMTP server. After reinstalling it, things stopped working. What happens is that now the any e...more >>

Running 2003 Server with SUS. For months, everything has been working great. Now for some unknown reason, I can not log in to susadmin. It now asks me for a username and password, which it never had before Thanks for the hel JMK...more >>

Hel I want to backup the metabase, can someone tell the steps to repair the metabse entry in win2000...more >>

How do you set the header and banner information returned by IIS 6's services (FTP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) ??? I ran an external Security Audit scanner and it was able to tell in internal host name and IP address as well as more. TIA ...more >>

What permissions are needed to allow a public folder to access (upload/download) files using OWA? Is there any documentation I could follow? Thanks ...more >>

I'm trying to determine if a trend is happening and would like to know if it is possible to locate in the IIS log file Setup IIS 6.0 website with Integrated Windows Authentication only and uses Negotation, NTLM for the 2 Auth headers and extended logging. Most clients use kerneros, based on IE cl...more >>

How do you set the header information returned by IIS 6's services (FTP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) ??? I ran an external Security Audit scanner and it was able to tell in internal host name and IP address as well as more. TIA ...more >>

I've got an ASP.NET app on IIS 5 that does not use the anonymous login. On 1 or 2 out of 500 users, the client is trying to authenticate on the web server and not the AD domain the web server is part of Anybody have any ideas Th Kir ...more >>

Hi I have a problem with IIS on a server that is continually logging event ID 36. The error is 'The server failed to load application 'LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT' The error was 'No such interface supported'. I have found the Microsoft article regarding Crystal Reports but we don't have this installed. Any ...more >>

in a cluster two IIS 5.0 hosts can sync via iissync.exe (under Win2k). But what i use to sync IIS 6.0 under Win2003 ? The program doesnt exist. Please help. ...more >>

I moved over our websites to a new DELL Poweredge Server running W2K3 standard edition and every hour or so ASP pages stop working. The event viewer has the following message: "ISAPI 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll' reported itself as unhealthy for the following reason: 'ASP unhea...more >>

I currently am running Windows 2000 webservers (iis5) and am selling tutorial lessons via paypal. When the user has paid for the lesson, I have Paypal route back to the download page so the user can get the pdf file for the lesson. Then the download page goes to another site to download. This wo...more >>

This started about 24 hours ago. I have confirmed this with my upstream SMTP forwarders, and in the LogFile (C:\WINDOWS\System32\LogFiles\SMTPSVC2). An SMTP connection is established, target box identified, and data transfer begins. However it looks like nothing is being sent, and a time-ou...more >>

I hope someone can help me in this site. I have been searching for this answer all over the net. I have used Interegated windows security in one of my websites. It is working just fine. But in the login box it is showing the server IP number as a site name. I like to change that to my domain nam...more >>

Hi I'm using Windows XP Pro and installed IIS. However, I cannot open asp file e.g http://localhost/test/test.asp But I can open html file. IIS Admin and World Wide Web Publishing in the Service are automatically start and running. Can anyone help me thanks. Regards Robin ...more >>

I am looking for functionlity in IIS where I can hand back any file the web server has access to, not just ones that are URL accessible and mapped within IIS -- i.e. outside the wwwroot folder. Basically I want IIS to be able to serve non-URL-accessible files. Anyone know a way to do this? T...more >>

Ok i'm running a WinNT with IIS. with NT Service Pack 6a Randomly there would be an issue where users can not logon to the website through our ASP security within When I "try" to reboot, I would get the "end task" msgbox for a "mtx.exe". When I cleck "end task" button, the msgbox goes away but d...more >>

I have installed Internet Information Server in a Windows 2000 Pro, with administrator user (with this user I view and can configurate the default site), but a restricted user can't view that, can open the console of IIS but don't change the configuration. must be an administrator user? and ho...more >>

i got a service called w3wp.exe when i launch the application that uses this services, it starts but shoots the processsors to a 100% cpu usage and more, the memory allocated to this proces goes higher and higher ... and stays blocked.. does anyone knows something about this proble thanks f...more >>

I have co-located 2k3 server running IIS with mydomain.com pointing at it. I would like to have a subdomain abcd.mydomain.com point to a different IP address. How do I set this up? Thanks, Mike ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have been working on setting up a windows 2003 machine with IIS 6.0.The web server has the web directory on a UNC share on a windows 2003 server.I want to migrate websites from a windows 2000 machine to this one using the migration tool.The problem with doing this is the migration...more >>

I recently moved a web application from apache to IIS 5.0. After finishing this project, i noticed that IIS does not seem to allow multiple submits. My app requires the the user be able submit multiple times simultaneously The problem is that every few minutes, the server receives a 'heart beat' fr...more >>

Hi everyone, since I have downgraded my windows 2000 advanced server from a domain controller to normal domain member I have problems with the IWAM User: I get error 10004 in the eventviewer (DCOM got error "Overlapped I/O operation is in progress). So I searched the web for it. So I get the ...more >>

for my default web in IIS what are and how do i configure security settings. i used a feature by rightclicking and All tasks that gave me all kinds of settings from SMTP to USER and in it there was an option to scan the site and find problems. all of the setting but TIGHTENING SECURITY passed. ...more >>

Hello, We have a NAS with Windows 2003 Appliance Edition today it got restarted because of power fluction and after the server is started the IIS is not started and whin i try to start the iis admin service it is giving the following error The IIS Admin Service service terminated wit...more >>

We configured our website on IIS 5.0 with a virtual url address eportal.abc.us which is load balanced with two servers (pdx1 and pdx2). When we enter eportal.abc.us it goes directly to http://pdx1.abc.com/irj. We want users to display only the global url on address bar (ie. eportal.abc.us). Even af...more >>

I have a Windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0 and SQL Server running. I am able to create and use Visual Studio 6.0 with no problems, but now I want to use the Visual Studio.NET. I have a Windows 2003 server that is running IIS 6.0 and SQL Server which does fine with allowing me to connect and create ...more >>

From time to time I try to open the internet information services manager in mmc and I get an error "The path specified cannot be used at this time" and nothing but the default smtp virtual server icon shows. If I reboot then it works fine for a while and then it will happen again in 2 to ...more >>

Hello All I've got a weird problem. I have ASPMail (serverobject.com) component installed on my server. Occasionaly (lately, sometimes 2-3 times a day) the component simply gets stuck. That ofcusre causes my server to stuck and practicly kills it, forcing me to retart the IIS. I've addr...more >>

Hello all. I have a weird problem. I've got aasp mail installed on my server. ...more >>

Hello My application has begun crashing recently with an error relating to there not being enought storage for the request. When I look in task manager, there are over 100 instances of dllhost.exe. Is there any setting I can make to ensure the dllhost.exe is dropped Thanks in advance...more >>

In IIS Windows 2000 I have enabled ASP server-side debugging. I thought = I had my site cleaned up. But I guess I have now to deal with = Microsoft's IIS Help ASPs. This ASP that through the error is 500-100.asp which is located in = iisHelp/common. It seems the location of where the error ...more >>

We just upgraded to a Windows 2000 server. FrontPage 2002 extensions were installed by the server installation crew. Can FrontPage 2000 extensions exist on the same server without compatability issues? Will I hose the 2002 extensions by installing 2000 extensions?...more >>

If I don't have a search function on the website itself do I need "index this resource" checked on any of my virtual sites? ...more >>

How to sync the matabase between two IIS 6.0 ? On IIS 5.0 there was a script called iissync but it doesnt exist on Win2003 server. Any ideas ? ...more >>

Do virtual directories need to be members of application pools to work properly? I have my web server connecting to an image database via ODBC on another server. It is using a custom third party ODBC driver to do this. Right now I have the application pool turned off on the virtual directory. ...more >>

I have an annoying problem. When I use the IIS 6 manager to connect to a remote server on my network and then close out the IIS manager I have to re-add the web server. Is there any way I can make IIS Manager remember the servers it had in there? ...more >>

will it hurt to deleat all cookies weekley my search engin has been replaced by almighty search and key words are underlined take me to web sites how can i remove this junk?...more >>

We are using Sharepoint Team Services on a Windows 2000 Server. One administrative user accidentally deleted a custom table. I restored the entire Sharepoint database from a backup. Everything seems OK except that we cannot edit via the web interface the one table that was deleted. I get ...more >>

Hi, I am using IIS 6 on WinXP. I created a custom 404 page. My 404 page contains a static html page that has link as well as form so that people can email their comments. The .html page calls the asp page which uses CDO to email the comments. First I had created a folder on the server ...more >>

To grant FTP access on IIS to a user on my LAN I had to add him to the administrators group Is there a other way to grant access to FTP site, without put him on administrators group Thanks,...more >>

Hi, Here is is the message I get in Internet Explorer (IE6.0 SP1) when I try to see my local web pages (ex : http://localhost/abc). It occurs when I access *.asp, *.aspx, *.htm,... I have Windows XP Pro SP1 with IIS 5.1. Here is the source of the page I get: <html> <head><title>Error</tit...more >>

I know I ran into this sometime back, but I know you used to be able to browse to your NT 4 Server " Running IIS" and managed user accounts. Can someone tell me where this is located? Thanks, Mark Cooper ...more >>

I have IIS installed and it is updated. I would like to know how I can create and publish(if thats what i do) a web-site from my hard drive. I am not interested in all of the restrictions applied in FREE WEB-HOSTING nor do I want to pay for some kind of domain name. seeing that XP pro can do i...more >>

I need to be able to restart IIS 6.0 after setting a system environment variable such that the worker process (w3wp.exe) picks it up. Unfortunately, all of the techniques I have tried fail to cause the worker process to get a copy of the variable. Only after rebooting the machine is the variable ...more >>