15 Seconds is looking for technical professionals working in the Active Server field to write articles. If you are interested, take a look at our writer's guide and submit your ideas.
Migration to IIS 6 can present itself as a daunting challenge. Depending on your existing hosting configuration, the process can number in hours, days, or even weeks. Careful planning and research is integral to achieve a successful migration. [Read This Article][Top]
Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative significantly changed the way in which Microsoft builds and designs software. In this article, Jeff Gonzalez explores some of the new options and architecture in Internet Information Services 6.0. [Read This Article][Top]
Upgrading your server? Brien Posey takes a look at the process and pitfalls of migrating IIS to a completely different server. [Read This Article][Top]
Spending countless hours developing a Web site only to discover that no one can access it is frustrating. This article guides you through the process of troubleshooting Web-site access problems. [Read This Article][Top]
Members of the 15Seconds discussion list may have found a way to run IIS on Windows XP Home Edition, so developers can run ASP pages. Attempt at your own risk! [Read This Article][Top]
Internet viruses such as Code Red and Nimbda have brought down numerous IIS Web servers recently. Fortify and defend your system with this comprehensive strategy authored by 30-year industry veteran, Andrew Novick. [Read This Article][Top]
Stop SPAM from sliding through your e-mail system. George Walker shows how to create an e-mail content filter for the Windows 2000 SMTP service using Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects. [Read This Article][Top]
Travis Giggy demonstrates how to put ASP tags inside of JavaScript blocks so developers can fit large amounts of data into one form on a single page. He offers an overview of things that can be done with dynamic JavaScript with ASP and data queries. [Read This Article][Top]
Collaboration Data Object (CDO) is a COM library designed to send mail through SMTP or Microsoft Exchange. If you install the SMTP server that comes with Microsoft Option Pack 4, you can send mail from an Active Server page using CDO. Because CDO is comes with Microsoft Option Pack 4, CDO is free. [Read This Article][Top]
Collaboration Data Object (CDO) is a COM library designed to send mail through SMTP or Microsoft Exchange. If you install the SMTP server that comes with Microsoft Option Pack 4, you can send mail from an Active Server page using CDO. Because CDO is comes with Microsoft Option Pack 4, CDO is free. [Read This Article][Top]
ADSI Part II describes and demonstrations the power of ADSI by showing how to manipulate the NTLM database. Examples in this article show how to add a user to a domain, delete the user, add a group, and add the user to the group. There is also a discussion on security and an overview of the Group, User and Domain ADSI objects. [Read This Article][Top]
Have you wanted to add virtual roots through VBScript? Create ISAPI server extensions that install themselves in IIS 4.0? Or script the installation of your entire web site including user permissions? You can do this and more with ADSI. [Read This Article][Top]
This article will describe how to implement a banner rotation scenario where the pages served are static, i.e. .htm, and do not have the flexibility to call components. The task is to dynamically serve banners and statically serve pages. This is the opposite of the scenario for banner rotation components, which statically serve banners and dynamically serve pages. [Read This Article][Top]
In this issue, we will discuss how to use custom error pages with IIS 4.0. With IIS 4.0, you can return special pages for each web site error instead of the default pages. So instead of the message "404 File Not Found," the user could have a list of optional links with your company header and an apologetic message. We will demonstrate how to get the most from custom error pages by using Active Serve pages to customize the message. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is a reprint of chapter 19, by Nelson Howell , in a new book called 'Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4' from Que Education & Training (ISBN 0789712636) due for publication in early March 1998. This chapter covers advanced security concepts. Including: how to secure content Enforce security permissions for sensitive and private content and configuring user authentication understand and use authentication methods for securing content. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is a reprint of chapter 19, by Nelson Howell , in a new book called 'Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4' from Que Education & Training (ISBN 0789712636) due for publication in early March 1998. This chapter covers being your own ISP: allowing dynamic user access. Including: setting up and providing clients with the ability to control their own Web site is a simple matter and getting the content there are two ways of uploading content to client Web sites: the traditional FTP method and the newer HTTP PUT facility. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is a reprint of chapter 16, by Nelson Howell , in a new book called 'Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4' from Que Education & Training (ISBN 0789712636) due for publication in early March 1998. This chapter covers understanding and planning for server-side loading with the Internet Information Server version 4.0. Including determining load using performance monitor, using event viewer to discover errors, using TCP/IP troubleshooting utilities, configuring ODBC loads and understanding IIS logging. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is a reprint of chapter 15, by Nelson Howell , in a new book called 'Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4' from Que Education & Training (ISBN 0789712636) due for publication in early March 1998. The chapter covers performance tuning of the Internet Information Server version 4.0. Including: What is performance, building web sites for speed, and the performance monitor. [Read This Article][Top]
Have your own push server with Active Server and a little help from 15 Seconds. The Active Server page code that 15 Seconds presents is not a hack nor a work-around. This code manipulates HTTP headers to give the client the impression that you have a push server. [Read This Article][Top]
IIS 4.0 allows you to have multiple web sites on one machine. Though IIS 3.0 has this capability, IIS 4.0 expands the functionality of multiple web sites by adding additional characteristics to sub-directories, and allow for multiple applications. Special considerations need to be made when designing and administrating multiple web sites on a single machine, including when to use sub-directories, when to use virtual directories, how to handle security, and the handling of multiple applications. [Read This Article][Top]
This issue discusses and demonstrates how to run isolated ISAPI applications. Included are considerations for moving your ISAPI application from IIS 3.0 to IIS 4.0, performance considerations and the effects of isolated ISAPI applications on ODBC connection pooling. [Read This Article][Top]
ActiveNews(NOTE: ASPToday articles require a paid subscription)
If you're thinking of using IIS to host many domain names, you may want to
read this. Members of the ISP-Webhosting list provide some insight into how
many domains can be placed on a single Microsoft IIS server. [Read The Article]
Much as we wanted to find fault with the latest release of
Microsoft's popular server, what we found was a product that improved on an
already solid Web server. Bundled exclusively as part of the Windows 2000
Server operating system, this server contains many new features along with
performance and reliability enhancements. Notable improvements are better
and more clearly documented security policies, support for the new WebDAV
publishing standards, and faster restarts of both Web and FTP services. [Read The Article]
Many people have adopted and embraced the IIS Virtual SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service that proved fast, reliable and easy to use for simple tasks like sending a confirmation email to a visitor in response to their comments, feedback, or perhaps even the placing of an order. This is the first in a series of three articles where Alex Homer looks at how the equivalent SMTP Mail Service that comes with Windows 2000 can be used. This article deals with setup and configuration of the SMTP Mail Service, and later articles will look at how we use it with the Windows NT4 Option Pack version of CDONTS (Collaboration Data Objects for NTS) and CDO version 1.x, and the new version of CDO that is supplied with Windows 2000. [Read The Article]
Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 sports improvements for administration and application development. Building on the foundation of its predecessor, IIS 5.0 takes performance, reliability, and scalability to the next level (in fact, many customers are reporting 50-100 percent improvements in performance when running their sites on Windows® 2000). In addition to an engine overhaul for IIS, updates to core technologies improve the overall Active Server Pages (ASP) experience. In this article, J.D. Meier helps you get the most out of ASP in IIS 5.0 by sharing his experiences working with it over the past several months. [Read The Article]
All sorts of things can go wrong with information exchange. Imagine, for example, an e-commerce site that sells products to the public - you place an order for a book, their system crashes, you get charged, but the order didn’t finish processing so you never received the product. A lot is expected of today’s applications, and because of this many applications bundle everyday data exchange activities and related work into transactions. [Read The Article]
Windows 2000 (nee Windows NT 5.0) is so full of features that anyone—especially Web developers—can find good reasons to use it. Let’s go over what’s new and useful in Windows 2000. [Read This Article]
With IIS 5.0 around the corner, we will have two ways to handle errors at our disposal. Christian Gross looks at both and asks which to use when. [Read This Article]
15 Seconds' has the only list server dedicated to IIS 4.0. Sign up today to learn about the issues that others are having with IIS 4.0. Learn great programming tips from people that have been working with IIS 4.0 and share your own expertise.
With the list server going in full swing there are plenty of archives to read without signing up to the list. The arhives are completely searchable and ordered by either author, subject, or date. [IIS 4.0 Archives]
Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 now enables you to debug the Global.asa file, .asp files, .cdx files, and ActiveX components written in Java. With IIS 3.0, debugging usually meant typing in Response.Write statements, which would send the necessary information to the browser to determine scripting errors. Using the new Microsoft Script Debugger, which ships with IIS 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0, it is possible to debug client-side and server-side scripts. This article outlines what you need to know to start using the debugger with Active Server Pages (ASP). [Read This Article]
