A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was changing my IIS web server configurations to (hopefully) better manage memory and App Pools. That’s been working out quite satisfactorily. Yesterday I realized the changes I made can give another nice side effect. I was preparing to start some maintenance … Continue reading
Back in February I mentioned that I was reconfiguring my IIS 6 web servers to shutdown the App Pools after 2 hours of inactivity. That seemed a much better option than the brute force iisreset that I’d been scheduling as a nightly event. Turns out I wasn’t quite done yet. … Continue reading
This morning I was alerted to the fact that one of our clients was having problems with our application last night. Unfortunately, none of their end users had captured any of the error messages. I checked the SQL and Windows Event logs but found nothing helpful. Then I had a … Continue reading
At work we build and host web based applications. As part of that, our applications generate email. We don’t get too fancy with sending email, we just shoot it out using Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) SMTP service. Traditionally we never really configured it, we just turned it loose. As … Continue reading
I got dinged on an external penetration test against one of my web servers last week. It was deemed a low priority, but it needed to be fixed. It seems that it was rather easy to get the internal IP address of the server: Well oops! (nc = netcat in … Continue reading
