Screen Cast: Remote Administration and Delegation in IIS7

Channel 9 has posted their latest IIS7 Screen Cast. From the site:

In this screencast, we configure our IIS7 server for remote administration and delegation. The remote administration service in IIS7 is a new and powerful feature that allows us to connect securely to our remote IIS server using a firewall-friendly SSL connection. Additionally, we can choose to use traditional Windows accounts for authentication or choose the new IIS Manager user accounts instead.We will walk through the steps you must perform as the IIS administrator as well as the experience for a remote administrator using delegated features.

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Failed Request Tracing on IIS7

In this screencast, we see how to configure our IIS7 server for Failed Request Tracing (sometimes called FREB). Failed Request Tracing is a powerful new capability in IIS7 that allows us to easily set rules on our web applications, that once triggered will log that request to disk and pull in all the relevant trace information. This feature is immensely useful for troubleshooting running applications where attaching a debugger is impractical.

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IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions

A bunch of good IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions

How do you isolate and troubleshoot an ASP and / or ASP.NET application?
What is your idea of locking down a server?
How do you feel about having developers or anyone else making changes directly in production? Aka how do you normally handle change management.


Can you run the 1.1 and 2.0 on the same box? What are the limitations.
Can you explain what the '/bin' folder is used for.
Do you know what user instancing is.

What makes the IUSR account unique in IIS7 vs. previous versions.
What are some of the new ways of troubleshooting, Logging in IIS7

read them all here: http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2007/08/09/iis-and-net-2-0-interview-questions.aspx

ASP.NET Integration with IIS7 Article

Since its release, ASP.NET has been the platform of choice for developing web applications on the Windows / IIS platform. ASP.NET 2.0 took web application development to a whole new level, letting developers build more powerful apps faster than ever before.

IIS7 takes ASP.NET to the next level, by integrating the ASP.NET runtime extensibility model with the core server. This allows developers to fully extend the IIS server with the richness of ASP.NET 2.0 and the .NET Framework, instead of using the lower level IIS C++ APIs. Existing ASP.NET applications also immediately benefit from tighter integration, by being able to use existing ASP.NET features like Forms Authentication, Roles, and Output Caching for all types of content.

While IIS7 provides the improved ASP.NET integration by default, the choice is yours: IIS7 supports both the new and the old ASP.NET integration modes that can be used side by side on the same server.

This article discusses the improvements introduced by the new ASP.NET integration mode, the architecture of the two modes, and describes how to select and configure the integration modes for ASP.NET applications.


Read the rest here: ASP.NET Integration with IIS7

Configuring IIS7 to support Windows CardSpace sites

In this screencast, Rich Turner will walk you through the processes of configuring IIS7 on Windows Vista to enable a site to support Windows CardSpace:

Here is what is covered:
Configuring IIS7
Creating an SSL Certificate
Adding an HTTPS binding to the default website
Finding the cert's private key using PowerShell
Setting permissions on the private key (using ICACLS)
Adding the Simple Windows CardSpace demo site


This will hopefully make it a great deal easier for you to understand how to build dev/test/live rigs that can support Windows CardSpace.


Also check out the "Windows CardSpace Simple Demo Walkthrough", Rich Turner illustrated just how little code and effort is required to add Windows CardSpace support to an ASP.NET site.