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MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) types are used to instruct a Web browser or mail application how to handle a file received from a server. For example, when your Web browser requested an item on this server, it also requested the MIME type Read More...
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Windows Server 2003 provides us several ways to manipulate IIS, the first being GUI based. This, while useful, becomes cumbersome if you are administering more than a few sites. The second option is to do things programmatically, either utilizing the Read More...
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Using IIS, you can host multiple Web sites on a single server. There are a number of ways to distiguish between them but host headers allow you to host them on a single IP Address and Port. With IIS 6.0 you can also use host headers on SSL web pages as Read More...
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You can improve SSL performacne by enabling kernel-mode Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Kernel-mode SSL improves performance by allowing encryption and decryption to take place in the kernel where processing is done faster. Windows Server 2003 Service Pack Read More...
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If you have ever looked through your web server logs, or come across a 404 error on a website you are familiar with HTTP response codes. These codes tell you that a request has been processed, if it was successful, or if an error occured. These response Read More...
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Logging traffic to your websites can offer a slew of information that maybe useful to IT staff, management and marketing. By determinig which pages are most popular, where visitors are coming from, and what browser they are using is helpful information Read More...
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Password changes are an important first line of defense in protecting your network. Making this task easier for your users, will hopefully improve the chances that they actually do change it. Windows 2003 allows you to change passwords via a webpage on Read More...
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Internet Information Services (IIS) includes an FTP component which can be used to transfer files. If you have multiple FTP users and wish to isolate them from each other you can use FTP Isolation to accomplish this goal. This can be used if you are hosting Read More...
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Using IIS, you can host multiple Web sites on a single server. There are a number of ways to distiguish between them but host headers allow you to host them on a single IP Address and Port. When hosting multiple websites on a single IIS server, you can Read More...
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Configuring a honeypot in IIS is a simple task that you can do to reduce attacks on your IIS webservers. Now this is not exactly a honeypot, a honeypot is a host with known vulnerabilities deliberately exposed to a public network, but more of a redirector Read More...
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One of the bigger changes to IIS 6 is the conversion of the IIS Metabase from a binary (bin) file to an XML file. What this allows is the editing of the IIS Metabase while IIS is running, similar to httpd.conf in Apache. The metabase files for IIS 6 are Read More...
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Bandwidth is finite, and saving it can save money as well as speed up access to web resources. One method to save on bandwidth is to use HTTP Compression. HTTP Compression is built into most web servers and browsers and can improve site performance by Read More...
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When you connect to a mail server using telnet you will receive a message telling you some basic information about the mail server, including FQDN of the server, the protocol, server version and the date, time and time zone. The following is an example Read More...
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I'll be the first to admit I love using the GUI to admin my network, however there are times when command line tools will speed up the task at hand. Managing IIS 6.0 from the command line can cut down on the time you take to create or delete, start or Read More...
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is used by IIS 6.0 and other webservers to secure traffic between the webserver and the client machines web browser. When a browser sends a request to a Web servers HTTPS port (TCP 443) the browser asks for the servers public Read More...
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I recently added a new anti-spam and anti-virus solution to my network. After reviewing my installation options I installed the applications on a mail relay to prevent any performance loss on my already under powered mail server. I decided to use a Windows Read More...
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