Developing .NET application to acccess web services. In IIS, if Integrated Windows Authentication is turned on, I get a 401: Access Denied error. However, if I turn off Integrated Windows Authentication and turn on Basic Authentication I am able to authenticate the user with no problem. I...more >>

I have moved a website from IIS 5 to IIS 6. I have an asp page which refers to a dll file which executes an application which creates a thumbnail of an image which is uploaded to the SQL database and accessed by the asp pages. The asp now gives me a 401 error message on the file being acce...more >>

I see a few posts but not eneogh to help me. I want to setup a password change utility for my SharePoint 2003 external clients by providing a link on there site. Is IISPWD supported in WIN2K3 and IIS6? If so where do I find IISPWD (can't find it in the IIS 6 resource kit) How do I deploy i...more >>

After a recent security scan it was found that I have three IIS 6.0 servers that need to have there banner information hidden. I know URLSCAN can do this but I can't find exact information on how to do this. All I want to do is hide the banners I don't want any additional features turned on ...more >>

We have a case where users who are encouraged to have good passwords with norwegian characters and other special characters cannot login to a ASP.NET 1.0 app. This problem is discussed in the following article from MSKB: http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_835388.aspx Do you know if this problem i...more >>

I have a user that is logging in to Exchange 2003 Webmail and trying to change his password from there, but he gets error -2147024891 every time he tries; I have duplicated this several times from my desk. We require complex passwords. Is there something I'm missing here to try to get him to...more >>

I have been asked to integrate RSA authentication to a web application that runs on IIS 5/6 - this is normally done by an ISAPI filter - which is normally straightforward. However there is a particular requirement that only users "external to their LAN" (i.e. connecting via their DMZ) have to ...more >>

Hi, I am configuring a virtual directory pointing to a UNC within the same domain as the IIS server (Win 2003 server). The authentication setting is set to Network Credentials of Users. The rest all like Anonymous access, etc. are unchecked. ACLs are set up in the file server (UNC) thereby co...more >>

I have a webserver running IIS 6.0. All the sites are stored on a network share. Can I change the permissions on the Inetpub folder to only allow admin access? What NTFS permissions do i need to set on the mailroot folder so that sites can send mail to the queue through cdonts? Thanx ...more >>

We are in the process of upgrading all of our web servers to Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0. I am having a problem getting error messages written to the servers Event Log Viewer from our ASP applications. To log the errors in ASP to the Event Viewer we created a VB6 DLL that has a method exposed...more >>

programmatic to ftp virtual directories when i connect to an ftp server and i only have access to a few of the ftp virtual directories, do i just change directory to them after connecting and having credentials authorized? is there some special protocol for changing directories to authorized v...more >>

When trying to open almost any media in Internet Explorer: "The file you are downloading cannot be opened by the default program. It is either corrupted or it has an incorrect file type. As a security precaution, it is recommended that you cancel the download." That's obviously a lie, sinc...more >>

It seems I am unable to export the private key of a server certificate to either DER and Base 64 since the options to choose are greyed out. The only choice is the PFX format which is not feasable. How do I get these options to be available. ...more >>

Hello All, I have developed an application allows a user to FTP files to a remote server with the push of a button. Sometimes the users that use the application to update the websites forget to do so after changing something in our database, I developed a windows application that performs...more >>

We have a couple of webservers running Windows 2000 and 2003 servers with IIS srving large volume of file content. Can anybody recommend suitable Antivirus software for these servers. The parameters I am primariliy focusing are 1) Speed 2) Effectiveness (Regular updates, reliability)...more >>

The scenario is : I have installed SPPS (SharePoint) on IIS6 (on win 2k3 machine). And I have installed my ISAPI filter for SPPS on IIS. This ISAPI filter requires Anonymous Authentication to be turned on and it deploys basic over ldap and form over ldap authentication schemes. I have also co...more >>