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Security Alerts - December 2009

qbernard — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:36:00 GMT

Recently, Microsoft released the December security bulletin , and one of the patches related to IIS. Meant to blog about this earlier but Nazim from IIS team beat me to it :) Been seeing lot of discussions online and patch management related mailing list...(read more)

IIS DebugDiag x64 is out

qbernard — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:07:00 GMT

Previously, the x86 version you are able to debug 32bit worker processes running on 32/64bit OSes, with this release - you can now debug a full 64bit worker processes. Here's the link at Microsoft download, and addtional note for x64 release Notes...(read more)

IIS 7.0 Administration Pack!

qbernard — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:33:00 GMT

Wow, what can I say? The IIS product team is really spending lot of effort you give you the best experience for IIS 7.0. Today, they released technical preview one for the brand new administration pack! you can take this as UI addon to various configuration in IIS 7.0 with some added features for you to get more out of IIS 7.0

Here's what you going to get if you installed it.

ASP.NET -
ASP.NET features - Authorization + Error pages for your .net authorization and custom error pages

IIS -
Request Filtering - the enchanced URLSCAN in IIS 7.0, this is the UI for you to configure it.
FastCGI - the UI for iisfcgi.dll configuration. this feature is at server level not site.
IIS Reports - fancy graphical chart for your site activities reports. you will need log parser installed for this to work.

Managment -
Configuration Editor - power full config file editor, much better than metabase explorer, allow you to search to entir hierarchy config tree, config locking etc.
IIS Database Manager - one stop UI for you to manage all db connection in IIS 7.0, explorer type of navigation, let you manage db objects, etc.

Read the official Admin Pack walkthrough/doc
and of coz. download it here...... x86, x64.

More IIS 7 Downloads

qbernard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:41:00 GMT

It is hot! with the official release of W2k8 / IIS 7.0, Microsoft has released more goodies for you to experience the new IIS 7.0 revolution, latest releases including the IIS 7.0 Manager or Remote Manager for Vista/XP/Win2k3, as well as the long awaiting WebDav extension for W2k8. And of coz, the best place to look for all IIS 7.0 related download is at iis.net, or get the latest release info via this RSS feed (feed not working yet).

Microsoft Web Deployment Tool aka IIS 7 Migration Tool with bonus features.

qbernard — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:24:00 GMT

After a lonnnnng wait !! Today, the IIS team releases the new web deployment tool technical preview 1 :) The deployment tool called msdeploy.exe is essentially a migration toolkit similar with the one the shipped for IIS 6.0. However, the team spent extra effort and includes few extra features in the tool and called 'web deployment tool'. The new tool supports content sync per site or per server (IIS 6 migration tool only support one site per migration and config only), supports SSL cert migration (in IIS 6, you need to manually export the cert and import again in the destination server), etc. It also serves a backup tool where you can archive both content and config and restore the website when needed. It works with IIS 6 and IIS 7, so you can have any combination sync setup for both, say IIS 6-IIS6, IIS6-IIS7, IIS7-IIS7, etc.Take note that due to the changes in IIS 7.0, frontpage and webdav as standalone components are not supported in the deployment tool. For FTP, it does not support migration to the new out-of-band IIS 7 ftp package and etc.

The Web deployment team also started blogging with the release of the tool + new forum section for the tool discussion. You can also download the walkthrough guides from the team. I just quickly glance through the guides, at first it is quite confusing, maybe I was rushing :) This is a pure command line tool - NO GUI :( and with similar concept of AppCmd, Not the syntax format but the general concept of verb action against object. When you unzip the walkthrough, you will few docs + 2 folders (Offline and Remote). Offline walkthroughs demonstrates how you sync the content manually (copy to destination and sync), while remote allow you to sync content + config realtime to a destination server. I also found the msdeploy_readme.html inside the installation path quite useful as it detailed the current known issues and workaround for it.

This is tech preview release and Microsot does not recommended for production usage, so try it out and interact with the product team directly via the blog space or discussion forum at IIS.net. Finally, get the tool here - 32bit - x86_msdeploy.msi, 64bit - amd64_msdeploy.msi (zzzz. amd64? sigh! should be x64_msdeploy.msi)

Windows Server 2008 - Release Candidate 0

qbernard — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:27:00 GMT

RC0 is out ! I'm downloading it now..... Zzzz... but may take days from my location :(
Anyway, can't wait to test drive it! The release page however does not shows the direct download links, you can search it at MS Download. You will see 5 flavors of W2k8 SKUs...namely
- Web server
- Standard
- Enterprise
- Datacenter
- Itanium - Yes :) Intel :p

For more updates on IIS 7 in this release, head over to Mai-Lan's blog.

TechNet Events - IIS 7.0

qbernard — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:51:00 GMT

If you can't wait till next month for the IIS 7.0 Webcasts series, you can watch the TechNet briefing which covers the same topics :) Of coz, these are recorded demos, you can't ask questions realtime compare to live webcasts. Here's the list of technet briefings available.

ADD-120: End-to-End Overview of Microsoft's New Web Application Server IIS7
ADD-121: Getting the Most Out of New Delegation and Configuration Capabilities with IIS 7
ADD-122: An In-Depth Look into Web Application Administration with IIS 7
ADD-123: IIS 7: Under the Hood for Web Request Tracing and Diagnostics
ADD-124: Building Custom IIS7 Web Server Extensions

Oh ya, you can download the videos in either ZUNE, WMA or MP3 format

Security Alerts - Microsoft Internet Information Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS07-041)

qbernard — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:02:00 GMT

In this month Microsoft security bulletin, there's one important vulnerability related to IIS.

Summary:
This important security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent specially crafted URL requests to a Web page hosted by Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2. IIS 5.1 is not part of a default install of Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system.

Affected Platform:
Windows XP SP2 - IIS 5.1

Vulnerability:
Remote Code Execution

More detail...

Beta 3 - IIS 7

qbernard — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:44:00 GMT

Yes! the moment is here! The real IIS 7 is out! I mean the one with all the promising features. New FTPS, Shared configuration, Web Manager, etc. Zzzz.. but I'm traveling now :( why pick the date when I'm not with my test machine! Anyway, wait no more, this beta 3 will also grant you the Go Live! license for production deployment. There's also ton of new/updated articles at IIS.net - the official site for IIS7 community, but that's not all !! don't forget to visit the forum section, where you will have direct forum support from IIS developers, PMs and all the way to Lead PM.

AppcmdUI for IIS 7

qbernard — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:38:00 GMT

OMG, Ksingla @ forums.iis.net is either crazy or lazy :) he just released an UI tool for appcmd.exe, which provides autocomplete + sort of intellisense features. Well I'm not sure about you, I'm a lazy person and hate to do /? or try to guess what's the section config name I try to configure. Check out this lovely tool here.

IIS.NET Download Center

qbernard — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:57:00 GMT

Brand new spanking download center for IIS users :) You can get all tool/utilities/free stuff from Microsoft as well as third party vendors! So what you waiting for ? Go check it out!

For starter - try the LeechGuard module from Mike Volodarsky.

IIS Reports via Office Business Scoredcard Manager

qbernard — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:19:00 GMT

Here's the sample report pack for IIS using Microsoft Business SCM.

The sample scorecards include:

-Browser Statistics

-Country Statistics

-Length of Visit

-Pages

I hate badmail...

qbernard — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:30:00 GMT

Yes, I'm talking about bad emails...... in IIS world, where would this get dump? /queue /pickup /badmail? Obviously - it went straights to the badmail folder and if you are so "free" like me :) from time to time, I will manually go in the folder and clean it up. Back last year, I just wrote a simple 'del *.* /y' batch file and schedule it runs once a month. I got hit few months back, where the deletion took a long time (34K files in that folder), and CPU usage was at 100%. I have to reboot the machine, killing the task won't help. I'm guessing that the 'deletion' was too busy and failed to response back to the system. Anyway, I found this tiny script sometime ago, I have replaced by batch file with this. It was an old tool from the MS Exchange team, just like smtpdiag. BadMailAdmin is for badmail deleteion and archival. It works as long as you have IIS SMTP installed, it is a windows shell script that check your badmail folder, clean it up totally or base on allowed configured size or even archived it. Altough the Word document came with it focus on how to install and schedule it as a task + deletion and archiving option, you can actually do more with it for example log switching as well as disabling the badmail. Errr. disable badmail? not via metabase key or smtp setting, it's actually pretty interesting! how? well take at look at the script file, it just remove local system write access to the folder! and voila no more badmail :)

Active Directory Integrated FTP User Isolation Toolkit

qbernard — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:18:00 GMT

Chris Crowe has came out with this lovely tool to help you configure user home directory when configuring integrated AD user isolation. In the past, you need to use the iisftp.vbs to configure the msIIS-FTPRoot and msIIS-FTPDir AD schema properties to make this work. With this tool, it is just a few clicks a way [:D]

Free Web Tools (Watchfire)

bernard — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:09:00 GMT

Just got this from a mailing list. You can get the free PowerTools™ from Watchfire, including:

HTTP Proxy - An HTTP intercepting proxy which allows users to stop, edit and submit requests and responses between the client and the server. It includes the ability to write automated scripts in JavaScript using the utility API. This enables users to manipulate requests/responses automatically on the fly. HTTP Proxy also includes logging facilities for debugging of HTTP communications.
Connection Test - An HTTP pinging utility which helps website developers and auditors to test the connection between a client and a web server. Unlike the command PING, which uses the ICMP protocol (that is sometimes blocked by firewalls), Connection Test uses the HTTP protocol to communicate with the website.
HTTP Request Editor - An HTTP request editor that enables users to create specific HTTP requests and send them to a website. The editing can be performed either on the raw request, or by viewing the request in a "parsed" mode. The response to the request can be viewed either raw, or in an embedded browser.
Expression Test - A tool for testing regular expression patterns on a given text.
Encode/Decode - A utility that transforms text strings into several encoding methods, such as URL Encoding, Base64, 3DES, MD5, SHA1, HTML entities, Overlong UTF-8 and more.

Source: Watchfire

Microsoft Log Parser 2.2 - Sample Chapters

bernard — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:08:00 GMT

I blogged about Log Parser book few months ago. Yet, I forgot to tell you guys where you can download the sample chapters. I have a chance to work on the IIS chapters in this project. Here's the two chapters you can get it for free.

Chapter 2 - Monitoring IIS
http://www.iis-resources.com/downloads/LPChap2.zip
Chapter 5 - Managing Snort Alerts
http://www.logparser.com/311_LogParser_05.pdf

And of course, get a copy from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932266526/larkware-20/104-0831330-3461537

If you need help with log parser, visit this forum.

HTTP Inspection Tools

bernard — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:22:00 GMT

Just read this post from the port80 team. Ton of great tools for analyze HTTP traffics and help you troubleshoot HTTP connection issues, while wfetch from Microsoft still my preferred tool when it comes for troubleshooting HTTP connections.

DebugDiag 1.0

bernard — Fri, 27 May 2005 14:35:00 GMT

Another useful tool to complete your IIS troubleshooting kits :) A must HAVE for IIS admins.
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**Microsoft releases Debug Diagnostics 1.0 - Release Candidate 1**

Microsoft is working diligently on a new tool designed to make the life easier for IIS administrators and developers who are tasked with solving complex problems such as crashes, hangs, or memory leaks. The tool, called Debug Diagnostics 1.0, is the next generation debugging utility that extends on the functionality of previous tools such as IIS Debug Toolkit 1.1, Debug Matrix, and IIS State. This tool will be the only fully supported tool for debugging applications that run on IIS upon release and is supported on the IIS 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 platforms.

To join the beta and provide invaluable feedback to the designers,
please do the following -
1. Go to http://beta.microsoft.com
2. Login in with your passport id.
3. Login using the guest ID "DebugDiag" (it's case sensitive)
4. Click on the "IIS Debug Diagnostic Tool" link.
5. On the left hand side expand survey and select "IIS Debug Diagnostic Tool Nomination Form"
Note: if the customer only wants DebugDiag and doesn't want to sign up for the beta they can do this by selecting "Click here to download IIS Debug Diagnostic Tool" from the File Downloads section.
*You may be prompted to install an activeX control

This tool is also receiving full support via newsgroups which are available by doing the following -
To access WebNews newsgroups:
1. Connect to http://webnews.microsoft.com
3. For account name, enter "<Your Beta ID>"
4. Enter your Newsgroup Password (if you do not have a Newsgroup password - you can create it on BetaPlace by selecting Modify Your Info from the top navigation bar). Click OK.
5. Select the Program Name or particular newsgroup on the left pane to access.

To provide bug and customer feedback, please open bugs via the beta.microsoft.com using your Microsoft Passport. It would be incredibly powerful for us to get your feedback and make a true difference in your lives and Microsoft's.
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Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting Version 3.5

bernard — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT

Microsoft releases WBH ver 3.5. Get it here.

IIS Goodies

bernard — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:03:00 GMT

Remember the following tools ?
Log Parser 2.2
SMTPDiag 1.0
AuthDiag 1.0
SSLDiag 1.0

Now, Microsoft is distributing above the tools together and it's called IIS Diagnostic Toolkit, get the (x86) copy here. It will include the above 4 utilities that will make your life with IIS easier !!
source: News from IIS-resources.com

Next, SQL report pack for IIS :) 12 predefined report templates. Equiped with log parser 2.2 above, you are ready to populate your own log db and customize the reports. Please take note that this report pack required SQL server + SQL reporting services.