After installing IIS, In windows explorer, when right clicking one of the folders, there should be four tabs that read : "General", "Sharing", "Web Sharimg" ,"Customise". My "Web Sharing Tab is for some reason is gone and I even microsoft support could not help me to get it back. Can anyon...more >>

I am new to the IIS tchnology. A day installation on window xp pro., my IIS crashes and gives a send report error. It has also caused my other program running html to fail especially file having anything to do with *.chm. Please do help me...more >>

Got Win2000 DC running IIS Got Linksys dsl/cable router Web server is working properly Locally on DC using IE to log onto FTP site give error Make sure you have permission to access that folder .... Entering Passive Mode....... Connection closed, transfer aborted. Using FlashFXP remotely...more >>

I want to create a SSL encrypted FTP site with IIS Is this possible? If not is there any freeware ftp server softwares out there to do this?...more >>

I have webs on Windows Server 2003. Every time I republish a web the Execute Permissions (on the "Home Directory" tab of the web's properties dialog) get reset from "Scripts only" to "None". I'm publishing asp.net apps in VS.Net 2003. What causes this reset? Can it be stopped. -- Dav...more >>

HER IS THE SCENARIO: We have a jsp webapp that uses Tomcat We have an isapi_redirector to redirect requests for JSP pages to tomcat We have a virtual directory in IIS under the default web site that points to our web app root dir We have a SSL certificte available for use We have an ASP page t...more >>

Hello all, I'm EXTREMELY confused by something and am hoping that someone out there can bring about some sanity by explaning the numbers I'm seeing in the tests that I have been running. We run a site that hosts file downloads and are interested in improving the performance of the s...more >>

Hello, I am working with IIS 5.0, which is installed on Windows 2000 server. Is it possible to change number of worker threads used by IIS? If yes, then how to do so? Is there any configurable property which can improve the IIS server's processing performance? Regards, prasad. ...more >>

We have a strange situation where we have a number of ASP scripts that execute an external program, provided by our client. This program generates a few files, and then we pass the files back to the user via ASP when the program exits. At the minute we are using the WScript.Shell to run the...more >>

I have an ASP application, and for the first time I'm trying to use Windows Authentication. I have it working on my development machine (XP/IIS5.1), ie if I call the authentication page from my machine it *seems* to work. However, when I copied the pages to my development server, and tired c...more >>

Help maybe??? When I open the Internet Information Services console on my machine, (winXP Pro), I am getting an " You have been denied Access to this mahcine" message when I try to expand the tree for my machine. I do have local admin privelidges on my box. Can anybody help me with this??? T...more >>

Hi I need to start logging win32 status (CS-WIN32-Status) on 60+ servers. Are there any scripts which I can use which will do this for me so I don't have to log onto each server? Thanks in advance *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in...more >>

Hi all, Last night one of our web servers expereiced a deadlock. This morning I ran iisstate.exe -p <pid> -d. It genreated a 29mb dump file and a log file. I am including the following : Event Log Info (system and application) and the Log file generate by iisstate.exe (I am not too sure if ...more >>

Ok folks, Running Windows 2000 SP4, IIS5. We have 5 web sites hosted on one server. Just recently we began getting the error: Event Type: Error Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 115 Date: 9/30/2004 Time: 9:59:41 AM User: N/A Computer: TBG-WEB Description: The...more >>

I would like to minimize the ability to see my HTML source code on my websites. Yes, the HTML can still be found in the Temporary Internet File folder; but I want to slow down any user. Any suggestions as to how this can be handled? Thanks....more >>

I need a way to protect asp include files. My fear is that a user may stumble across one, causing who knows what to happen. As a first step, I want to rename all the include files from .asp to .inc. Then I want to lock down IIS so that users will get a 404 error whenever they try to access a i...more >>

Currently my company doesn't use Option Explicit. And with the size of our project, adding it in now would be a major undertaking. (Each asp file has 10+ include files). Still, with the size of our project, we really need it. Here is my plan... If I can justify using option explicit for "perfo...more >>

Hi! I installed SUS on a server 2000, the SUS was properly working until one day it stop and when I bring the browser up to run it ,it come up with page can not be display. I try it http://localhost/susadmin and still the same problem. already done : SUS uninstall and reinstalled, ISS unin...more >>

When I try to install IIS 5 through add/remove programs I am prompt for a SP 4 disk. I insert the SP 4 disk I got from Microsoft, but it doesn't have the file (convlog.exe ...) on the disk. Is there a way around this SP 4 request? The server has terminal service installed in app mode, SUS ...more >>

I have installed IIS onto a XP machine, i am running sql server and IIS and i now need to find out how to get index server up and runnning. I went to the install new windows programs and it appears there so how do you access it?? >>TIA>>...more >>

History: We want to use IIS for Intranet as middletier application with Kerberos Delegation. When we start IIS6.0 service under LocalSystem account - Kerberos delegation dont work. We can see in Event Log that Kerberos Logon was successful to IIS , but IIS requests SQL Server Database ...more >>

I m experiencing a similar problem to "mattcatmattcat"'s problem in the post "ASP Requests Executing" I read the answers and i run iisstate.exe and collected its log files. The problem we are facing is that after we try to open a connection to a foxpro database from asp, we are not getting a r...more >>

So, we have IIS6. We're putting up files for download, people simply click an <a href link to download zips. Some of these files are pretty large, 100+ MB. The server has just been setup, so we don't know if it's a configuration issue, or something else. But this is what we are getting in the ...more >>

I am trying to get Adobe FrameMaker 7 to work connect to a IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 box. I can connect to the web site via IE but when I try to connect via FrameMaker it doesn't like any combination of userid/password. I have turned on all the different types of auth in IIS and nothing seems to work...more >>

Hi all, I'm having a problem, or possibly two problems, with WSS and/or IIS (as far as I can tell); hence the crossposting. Two servers are affected. One is running SBS2003, the other Windows Server 2003 Standard. Both are in the same domain and are patched up to date (AFAIK including the S...more >>

I wondered if there was any advantage or disadvantage to using multiple IPs on one NIC and bind FTP to one and HTTP to the other and setup DNS to point to them individually? Thanks ...more >>

This is my first time ever trying to do this sort of thing, so bear with me folks... I'm at home and I have a single machine (that I've affectionately named turd) connected to the internet (wavecable) via cable modem (linksys) via a [ Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC ]. Win2k SP...more >>

Hi! I'm currently writing a set of web services with the purpose of administering IIS on a number of servers from a central location. I was wondering if Microsoft has already made a package containing web services for this purpose? (It would certainly make my job easier:-) Best regards ...more >>

I have setup Windows 2003 server with local DNS and obviously IIS 6. I host numerous websites on this server including digisis.biz which is also the internal domain name. On the internal network the wesites located on the digisis.biz domain will not resolve, however if I try and browse ...more >>

Our base system is Windows SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003. The system has been running for about two months. Last week email stoped coming in for a while. So I rebooted the system and got the message " Internet Information System encountered a problem and needed to close". The Event code i...more >>

Hi, Why do some folders behave like webfolders in explorer (small blue dot on folder) but they are not shared as I can see? /Zorko ...more >>

We host a large amount of content on several web servers. Does anyone know of a script to: Search for a given directory, and delete it. I'd like to use this as a temporary way of getting rid of server extensions that dont need to be on a productions erver, thanks....more >>

I have read the article by Tom Kaminski :- below ===================================================== I always use Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER"): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp? url=/library/en-us/iissdk/iis/servervariables.asp Here's how to logon w/o a prompt: http:/...more >>

The body of email messages I'm generating from an asp page running on a windows 2003 server are being truncated at about 4096 characters (e.g. only 4096 characters of mayby 20,000 in the email body are showing up when users read the emails). The code I'm using is basically this: Set objCDON...more >>

Hello everyone, I am running win2000 AD with EXchange 5.5 , IIS , and Mcafee virus scan enterprise 7.1.0. Recently, our server got hit with netsky virus which pretty much took the server out of commission. The Antivirus is setup to update on a daily bases so I was surprize with the viurs in...more >>

In troubleshooting problems with our IIS servers, a number of people (from MS, this group, etc.) have indicated that we most likely have a problem with heap fragmentation. We just ran across an MS KB article Q315407 for Exchange that talks about creating a registry called "HeapDecommitFreeBlock...more >>

Very strange one here. I have a Windows/Exchange 2000 server and I recently ran the urlscan and IIS lockdown utility. Since then I have been unable to connect to IIS using the Internet Services Manager, I get a message saying... Error connecting to <servername> The system cannot find...more >>

I have an inexplicable problem with CGI under IIS6: I have transferred my CGI based application from IIS5 to IIS6 and setting this up as a virtual folder under the Default Web Site, allowing scripts and executeables, defining and allowing my CGI.EXE under web extensions, I've managed to get it...more >>

Hi, I installed oracle 9i with apache server in SBS. After the installation we are unale to browse internet or sign in to msn. If we open Internet explorer it will ask for a username and password for Realm XDB. If you give the oracle username and password it takes to apache servers root...more >>

Hi, I'm having problems setting up the domain names on my iis server. Through an admin console provided by my isp I can configure domain names to point to different folders on my web space. I have one application that based upon parameters builds a dynamic website. My questions is, how ...more >>

Hello, I asked a question recently about how to automate IIS. One thing sitll remains unanswered, how do i set the execute permission to either: none / scripts / scripts and executables. This has to be configured for virtual sites via the command line. I hope that someone can help....more >>

Hi, we have a website hosted with IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003. It is accessible via a URL, but only some users can access it, whilst other get a connection refused error. Can anyone help? I'm sorry I'm being pretty vague but I didn't set it up. Carolyn...more >>

Hi, I'm currently looking for a 32-bit IIS crash/hang agent & IIS dump tool, is it available yet ? Thanks, HongLan...more >>

hi, I got a problem. I'd download W2KSP4.exe from Microsoft and put it on my Windows 2000 SP4 Server. I made it available to download by put it in one of my virtual directory in IIS. After the I downloaded this file to my home pc by IE using http://www.mydomain.com/w2ksp4.exe with the GetRig...more >>

A while back I posted with regard to the above error message; following the advice I have turned off show friendly errors the displayed message is now Host Header Required Description: Your Broswer did not send a "Host" HTTP header field and therefore the virtual host being requested co...more >>

I work at a school which has every teacher networked and all schools as well with XP pro clients and Novell for Windows. I want to run some ASP apps in my computer. If I install IIS in my client computer, will it show up on the school district's network as a server? What is the best solution ...more >>

Hi all, is it possible to configure the iis 6.0 anonymous user account to be a domain account? If yes, what permissions/settings do I need to set? TIA! ...more >>

Hi: My customer has the weirdest problem. He has a directory under wwwroot called: wwwroot/WebObjects/test.framework. We able to list the directory when browsing to the WebObjects directory, but when selecting test.framework we get: The page cannot be found .... HTTP 404 - File not fou...more >>

Every 3 or 4 days our IIS server grinds to a halt. Machine very unreponsive. If I bring up taskmanager I see that inetinfo.exe is at 99 or 100%. We are running Win2k Sp3 IIS 5. Not using the built in NNTP or FTP services nor are we using Exchange. I have done some searches on deja but...more >>

Hi, I have a strange problem whereby an IIS6 server is caching even static pages in a virtual website, even when the Metabase setting MD_VR_NO_CACHE=1 is in place within the Virtual Directory element. When an HTML file is uploaded or changed, this does not get served to IE browsers. Yes ...more >>