This is very useful when you want to test outgoing email for an application but not have access to an SMTP server. This is great for many applications including SQL Reporting Services, SharePoint and any other application which allows you to set an email/smtp server. Prerequisites 1. Create and setup a Gmail account at http://www.gmail.com […]
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Jul
16
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Filed Under: IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0, SMTP, Windows 2003
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Mar
10
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In a previous article I covered the installation URL Rewrite 2.0 for IIS 7. This is a plug-in for IIS 7 that allows you to manipulate URL’s. URL Rewrite has a GUI to allow you to enter rules within IIS 7; in the background all this does is edit the web.config file of the site. […]
Filed Under: IIS 7.0, URL Rewrite
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Feb
10
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This article will cover my installation of URL Rewrite 2.0. This is an add-on for IIS 7.0 that allows you to manipulate URLs based on rules you create. This article is part of a series that will cover URL Rewrite rules that can help you. With this utility you can do really cool things …
Filed Under: IIS 7.0, URL Rewrite
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Sep
08
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It’s possible to Force SSL on web pages using ASP. In this article I will show you how to accomplish this. To do this you need to do 2 things. Create a ForceSSL.asp page Set the file as an include on any pages that require SSL ForceSSL.asp Within your website create a file called ForceSSL.asp. […]
Filed Under: IIS 6.0, Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, Windows 2003
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Apr
08
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Please Note: This does NOT work on IIS 7.5 or R2. You will get a LOCK VIOLATION due to changes in security in the newer version. Please use the URL Rewrite 2.0 method instead. This article is for IIS 7 for IIS 6 configuration please refer to this article. If you configure IIS to only […]
Filed Under: IIS 7.0
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Apr
06
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In this article I will move an SSL certificate from a Windows 2003 Server box to a Windows Server 2008 machine. We will need to export the certificate on the 2003 Server and import and configure the SSL certificate on the 2008 Server. This article is divided into 4 sections: Export …
Filed Under: IIS 6.0, Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, Windows 2003
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Mar
27
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CDONTS is mail component used to send messages from an ASP page. Instead of recoding multiple web sites I have created, I am just going to install the component on my Windows Server 2008. Configuration Information Platform: Hyper V Host (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv.aspx) OS: Windows Server 2008 Installation …
Filed Under: Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, SMTP
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Mar
25
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In this article I will install and configure both FastCGI and PHP 5.2.9 on IIS7. You can configure PHP to use an ISAPI filter or CGI, on my old 2003 server I had it running as an ISAPI filter and it worked just fine. On my new 2008 server I am going to attempt to […]
Filed Under: Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, SMTP, PHP
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Mar
21
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I received this error in IIS 7 when I went to the default application of an ASP billing application that I installed on my web server. In this case the error is pretty self explanatory, in the error it says "This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an …
Filed Under: IIS 7.0
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Feb
26
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Configuration Information Platform: Hyper V Host (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv.aspx)OS: Windows Server 2008 Web EditionInstallation Media: Control Panel > Server ManagerCPU: 2 dedicated 2.0GhzRAM: 1024mbDisk: 40GB Installation Open Server Manager, you can open this several different ways in Windows Server 2008. Probably the quickest way to open Server Manager is to right click “My Computer” and choose “Manage”, […]
Filed Under: IIS 7.0, SMTP
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