I wrote an article here that describes how to connect to a Web App from IIS manager. If you cannot do that, read down at the bottom of the article where I show the configuration you can add to the web.config manually. Here is a document that discusses this feature in more detail. Once you […]
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Using HTTP/2 with ARR and IIS 10
I was asked a question about if the Application Request Router supports the HTTP 2 protocol on IIS 10 (not sure what it will be called). I was pretty confident that it did, but nothing beats a test to confirm it. So that is what I did. I used this article here that contains some […]
Read More →Make a self-signed SHA256 SSL certificate
I wrote an article about making an SSL certificate using MAKECERT here, but that example used the default SHA1 signature hash algorithm which is deprecating. Therefore, instead of the command shown in Figure 6 on the referenced article, I recommend using this command, that includes the SHA256 attribute, similar to that shown in Figure 1: […]
Read More →Install Failed Request Tracing on IIS 8.5 Server Core
To setup Failed Request Tracing on an IIS 8.5 Server Core server, follow these steps. Start PowerShell Install the Web-Http-Tracing Role, using Install-WindowsFeature Configure the rule via a Remote Management IIS connection How to configure an IIS Server Core server for remote management Start PowerShell When you login to a Service Core installation of Windows […]
Read More →How to add a Server Core IIS server to a domain
I have been messing around with Server Core, this is a much friendlier version when I need to closely manage physical hardware resources like CPU and memory. Plus, there are fewer updates that I need to install with the much more limited OS foot print. As I buld my IIS servers to test a reproduction […]
Read More →Configure an IIS Server Core server for remote management
To configure an IIS 8.5 server running on Server Core, perform the following: Install the Web-Server role Install the Web-Mgmt-Service Enable Remote Management Set the WMSVC service to start automatically Create connection from Remote IIS Management Console In a situation where you need to closely manage physical resources, you might consider using the Server Core […]
Read More →What does Connection_Dropped_List_Full mean
When you look in the HTTP Error log (c:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR) and see a lot of Connection_Dropped_List_Full error reasons logged, it means that the client has dropped the connection so many times, in a short period, that the log in which the dropped connections are stored has become full. You might also see numerous 200.0.64 HTTP Status […]
Read More →Why am I getting this challenge response popup?
Real quick, the reason for the credential pop-up is because the URL you are accessing is not in the Local Intranet trusted sites lists, as shown in Figure 6a and 6b! I setup a domain and did some learning on Kerberos. The first lessons I learned working towards a better understanding of Kerberos was some […]
Read More →Configure Application Request Routing with Windows Authentication, Kerberos
If you have not already read this article, please do which is a prequel to this one that explains the basic installation and configuration of ARR using anonymous authentication. The steps for configuring Application Request Routing (ARR) to use Windows Authentication -> Kerberos, are: Set authentication protocol on IIS (Server Farm) servers to Windows Authentication […]
Read More →Configure Application Request Routing
There are many documents that cover the configuration of ARR, but this one’s my own. I write this post to set the base line for another article I wrote here, about configuring ARR to work with Windows Authentication, specifically Kerberos. After taking the actions in this article and making sure all is running as expected, […]
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