Rakki Muthukumar
my journey with microsoft technologies - IIS/ASP.NET/AJAX/C#/Javascript/IE
IIS7 : HOW TO enable content expiration?
In IIS6, it was with the website properties --> HTTP Headers. Here in IIS7, you can do this on...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/09/2007
IIS7 : Manage Server - Actions Pane
In IIS7, you might have seen this pane "Actions" - I call it the smart pane in IIS7. It does gives...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 07/09/2007
How To perform an Unattended Install / Uninstall of IIS 5.0 / 5.1 / 6.0
I worked for a customer who wanted to have a script which will install IIS on some 200 machines in...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/21/2007
IIS7 : Sample code for Adding/Deleting a website programmatically - C# Example
As I told you earlier, IIS7 is a best friend to the developers. Administering websites through code...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/08/2007
Problems with 32-bit ASP.NET 2.0 DLLs on a Windows 2003 Server 64 bit
Recently I worked on an issue with my customer who had a 64 bit Windows 2003 Server. He told that he...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 06/08/2007
IIS7 : HOW TO add FTP Site publishing?
The brand new FTP server shipping with Windows 2008 Server looks pretty cool. It has added SSL...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/30/2007
IIS7 : HOW TO force a website to use SSL?
I have written about how to configure a website for HTTPS here. In this post, I will explain how to...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/29/2007
IIS7 : HOW TO enable the detailed error messages for the website while browsed from for the client browsers?
In IIS 7, you can control the detailed error messages being sent to the clients. By default, the...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/25/2007
IIS7 : HOW TO configure a website for HTTPS?
I will be discussing about configuring HTTPS for a website on IIS 7. The UI of the IIS manager in...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/25/2007
IIS7 : HOW TO configure the default document of the website in its web.config?
In my previous post, I talked about a new feature in IIS 7 which allows the website developers (or...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/25/2007
IIS 7 – more than just a web server – best friend to the developers!
Debuted with Windows Vista, also to be included in Windows Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn), IIS 7...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/23/2007
Virtual Functions Explored - C++ C# examples
A complete understanding of everything is very important in the programming world. I am taking this...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 05/10/2007
IIS7 Managed Module - URL redirection, Http2Https, File extension re-mapping
As I really want to explore more of the development enhancements that can be done on top of the...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/28/2007
Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3 released - new IIS7 features
The Windows Longhorn server team has released LH Server Beta 3 version. And Bills has more...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/27/2007
"Page cannot be displayed" on IE - IE has limit in the URL length
Today I was working with a customer on an interesting issue. The issue was with his website giving...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 04/25/2007
My First work on IIS7 - UI Module
As my love on IIS increases, and to make myself ready for IIS7, I want to try my hands on the...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/27/2007
Writing a simple ISAPI Extension
As my love on IIS increases, I wanted to try my hands on all the classic technologies available...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/08/2007
A simple VBScript for Syncing IUSR password from Metabase to SAM
I always wanted this handy script. Searched for it, couldn't find one. Yes, there is iissuba.dll to...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/08/2007
An ISAPI Filter converting ASPX to ASP
I have posted about writing a simple ISAPI and also making that ISAPI bad and taking ETW traces to...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/08/2007
A bad ISAPI Filter and ETW traces
My previous post talked about creating a simple ISAPI filter. Now let’s create some nuisance J We...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 03/07/2007
Writing a simple ISAPI Filter
ISAPI Filters can be written to do anything on the incoming requests; it could do some kind of...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 02/28/2007
ASP.NET_2.0.50727.210 shown as unknown in IIS Manager even after the filter gets loaded in the w3wp.exe process
PROBLEM ASP.NET_2.0.50727.210 shown as unknown in IIS Manager even after the filter gets loaded in...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 02/09/2007
User challenged for user credentials for every 5 minutes of inactivity while editing the site using FrontPage
Problem User challenged for user credentials for every 5 minutes of inactivity while editing the...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 01/24/2007
"HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error" for any page on the Virtual Directory or Website configured for a UNC path
Problem You get “HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error” while browsing any file under a website or...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 01/08/2007
Browser prompts to download the default HTM / HTML files when browsing the site
Problem You will be prompted to download the HTM or HTML file (default document) if you browse...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 01/03/2007
Response. CacheControl
You can set this property to “public” if you want to advise the proxy server to cache this asp page....
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 12/23/2006
Getting Error '8002801d' Library not registered on ASP files
Today I worked on a case where the customer was getting Error '8002801d' Library not registered. The...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 12/18/2006
IIS services down - "Error parsing XML file. Reason: An invalid character was found in text content" - 4275 Event from IIS Config in the System event log
Problem IIS Services are not starting Symptoms You may see the following events in the System Event...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 12/11/2006
Enabling Kerberos Delegation on a NLB scenario
Most common support incidents we come across is the kerberos delegation issues. So I would like to...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 12/08/2006
Won't be able to change certain properties of the website - POPUP - "A non-fatal configuration error occured" when opening IIS Manager GUI
Problem You won’t be able to change certain properties of the website (ex. IPAddress). You may get a...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 11/06/2006
"No such interface supported" error on IISRESET
Today, one of my customer came up with an error message. He was getting "No such interface...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/23/2006
GetObject Failed while trying to ENUM / using ADSUTIL
Today when I was playing around with my IIS 6.0, got the following error when tried to do an ENUM of...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 10/23/2006
403.18 : “The Specific Request Cannot Be Executed from Current Application Pool.”
403.18 : “The Specific Request Cannot Be Executed from Current Application Pool.” I came across this...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 09/01/2006
My 1st Post
Today I found the way I could create this BLOG and did it! To tell about me, I am a working as IIS...
Author: Rakki Muthukumar (rakkim) Date: 09/01/2006