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Systems administrators often mistakenly correlate client certificates with SSL server certificates. Here is a great post from David Dietz that helps clear up some of the misconceptions. Now that you have a basic understanding on how client certificates work, let’s take a look at how to implement requiring client certificates on an IIS 7.5 site. Your first thought is probably
Read moreSometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the structure of your organization may prevent that from happening in a timely manner. Or maybe you are frequently
Read moreThere is a question that I have been seeing more of in recent weeks. While it comes in different varieties, the essence of it has to do with having your files located on a server or device other than the IIS web server within the same network. One variation of the question has to do with connecting to the files
Read moreI continue to see questions and confusion about the configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS). I hope to clear up some of the confusion by the time you have finished reading this post. IIS 6 uses a file known as MetaBase.xml located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv. As the extension indicates, it is an XML file. Inside of this file is the configuration information
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