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Error HRESULT: 0x80070520 when adding SSL binding in IIS
Today I will be discussing the very infamous error that is seen while adding a SSL binding in IIS 7 & higher. Below is a snapshot of the error message while trying to add the SSL binding in...
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Central Certificate Store (CCS) with IIS 8 (Windows Server 2012)
In my previous posts on IIS 8, I discussed how scalability was achieved in IIS 8 via SNI.Below are the links to previous posts: · SSL Scalability with IIS 8 ·...
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Disable Client Certificate Revocation (CRL) Check on IIS
I have been asked this question on several occasions on how to disable revocation check in IIS 7. It was pretty easy for IIS 6, on IIS 7 there is no documentation on how to do so. This post will...
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Self-Signed, Root CA and Intermediate CA Certificates
In this article I will be discussing about the following:Self-Signed CertificateRoot CA CertificateIntermediate CA CertificateAt the end I would like everyone to be able to differentiate between these...
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Introduction to WINDOWS AZURE WEB SITES aka ANTARES
With the dawn of CLOUD COMPUTING, every one is betting big time on cloud. I might be little late to arrive here, but its never too late. MICROSOFT named its cloud infrastructure as AZURE.Coming to the...
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Retrieving MySQL connection string from Windows Azure Web Sites aka ANTARES
In my previous post, click here, I mentioned and described few of the features of WAWS, cloud offering from Microsoft. As I mentioned we could associate a application with either the MySQL db or...
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Publishing from Dropbox to Windows Azure Web Sites
Recently Dropbox was added to Windows Azure as yet another source control which could be used for publishing source code on to Windows Azure Web Sites. It makes the deployment task much simpler. Lets...
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HTTP to HTTPS redirects on IIS 7.x and higher
This is the most common requirement on most of the Exchange servers hosted on IIS. The server admins configure an http to https redirect. Today I will be discussing few ways of doing this. I will keep...
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Difference in IIS 6, IIS 7.x and IIS 8 with regards to SSL
There were lot of differences with regards to SSL moving from IIS 6 to IIS 7.x and then to IIS 8. IIS 6 in itself was a breaking change, however there were lot of limitations and they were addressed in...
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Windows Azure Web Sites: Quick Start Management Page
The QUICK START management page is seen right after the user selects one of the websites in the management page. As self descriptive it can get, the page provides quick access to important actions...
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Windows Azure Web Sites: Reset your deployment credentials v/s Reset your...
You might have seen this links on the DASHBOARD management page of the website hosted on WAWS, under the quick glance section:Reset your publish profile credentialsReset your deployment...
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Support for SSL on Windows Azure Web Sites
Finally in the first week of June 2013, it has been announced that Windows Azure Web Sites will provide native support for SSL, which includes both SNI SSLandIP based SSL for custom web site domain...
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Working with Wild Card Certificates
Yesterday one of my colleagues came up to me with a simple problem regarding wild card certificates. I gave him the solution immediately, but it had to take a lot of convincing to do. This shows that...
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Using DebugDiag to capture a dump on First Chance Exception
Capturing memory dumps is a most common ask while troubleshooting performance related issues with web applications. We generally use DebugDiag to do so. Not many are familiar with the tool and hence...
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How to create a Self-Signed SAN Certificate in Windows 8
One of the cool features of Windows 8 is the improved set of PowerShell commandlets that have been shipped with it. There are several of them which could have made the task a lot easier for the server...
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I don’t see Content-Encoding header in IE HTTP debugger (F12 Developer Tools)
Recently one of my colleagues came across with an interesting question. He questioned why he couldn’t see the “Content-Encoding” header in the IE HTTP debugger but was able to view it in the...
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Installing WIRESHARK/WinPCap on Windows 8 RTM
Windows 8 was RTM’d last week and as a curious soul I upgraded to RTM. Once done, I was loading my machine with all the tools that I use everyday. This includes the networking tools like...
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SSL Scalability with IIS 8 (Windows 8 Server)
One of the biggest problems with IIS on the previous versions of IIS was in regards to scalability. This restriction was at the OS level at the kernel mode. There is nothing much that we could do to...
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Server Name Indication (SNI) with IIS 8 (Windows Server 2012)
In my previous article I discussed on how scalability was achieved in IIS 8. Here is the link: SSL Scalability with IIS 8. In this blog I will discuss specifically about Server Name Indication aka...
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Troubleshooting SSL related issues on IIS
One of my article has been published on IIS.NET on how to troubleshoot SSL related issues. Here is the link: Troubleshooting SSL related issues (Server Certificate)There is another article written by...
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