Microsoft’s products were not affected by HeartBleed but this time, even if the criticity is far less, Microsoft’s products are in the scope.
This vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566) allows the plaintext of secure connections to be calculated by a network attacker. This issue has been discovered by Bodo Möller (Google Security Team) in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz.
This article is part of AD FS 2.0 Workshop – High-availability platform complete walkthrough
Here’s the main installation tutorial.
AD FS 2.0 Workshop – Installation prerequisites | AD FS 2.0 Cmdlets | AD FS 2.0 Workshop – High-availability platform complete walkthrough
This article is part of AD FS 2.0 Workshop – Complete High-availability platform
Here’s a list of the prerequisites components and architecture elements.
AD FS 2.0 Workshop – Installation | AD FS 2.0 Cmdlets | AD FS 2.0 Workshop – Complete High-availability platform
With the release of the new version of Windows Server 2012 R2 comes a new version of IIS, IIS 8.5.
IIS continues to grow as a key investment area for web hosting, with new and exciting improvements in scalability and more. This session includes demos of how these new features can be key parts of your real-life web deployment.
Log Parser Studio is a utility that allows you to search through and create reports from your IIS, Event, EXADB and others types of logs. It builds on top of Log Parser 2.2 and has a full user interface for easy creation and management of related SQL queries. Read more…
Here’s an example of how monitor CPU usage for a specific worker process and send an alert if a defined threshold is exceeded.
MonitorWP | Worker Process CPU usage
IIS 7.5 Express enhances your ability to develop and test web applications on Windows by combining the power of IIS 7.5 with the convenience of a lightweight web server like the ASP.NET Development Server (also known as Cassini).
IIS 7.5 portable | Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express | IIS 7.5 Express FAQ | IIS 7.5 Express Readme
Here’s an example of HTML configuration report generation with PowerShell. The script scans a fews WMI classes to build the report, and act like a Best Practices Analyzer.
Windows Server 2003 Inventory | Webserver Best Practices Analyzer
Today, I lacked inspiration; or rather I lacked needs to fill … So I found one: Sudhakaran B. asked for some help on the “PowerShell Power Users” LinkedIn discussion group:
we need to get the iis and event logs from production servers, then we need to zip those files to someother location on a daily basis
You can enable tracing for an entire application in the Web.config file in the application’s root directory. By default, application-level tracing can …
Perfmon is a powerfull tool, for sysadmins… But to provide nice (and especially readable for them!) graphs for your managers, here’s a …
We saw yesterday the different ways to install IIS7.x with PowerShell. “When I’m paid, I always follow my job through. You know …
We’re talking here about PowerShell and IIS; maybe the first thing to do should have been to install IIS (7.x) with PowerShell… …
When we have to add multiple host headers to a website, we have the “classic” way, ie using the ‘New-WebBinding’ cmdlet in …
Question: What’s the best way to have standardized websites accross server(s)?
Answer: Using a script to create them! Thus, all websites will meet the same standards
In this example, the only mandatory parameter is the website display name. All others have default values, but the script will list them and ask confirmation before creating the website.
Furthermore, a selection of the IP address to use is required (yes, a webserver can have multiple IP address configured, I hope so by the way, at least two -one for the admin network-).
