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App Pools in Azure App Service

I like IIS so when I first started playing with asp.net core I always set it up to run in IIS. The K

Harden IIS Asp.net

Unless you are running ancient IIS asp.net this should apply to most versions. X-Frame-OptionsIIS Ma
Tags: Secure, ASP.NET, iis

Turning Off IPv6 On Rackspace Cloud Server Blows

Blow Hole - Sunny CoveI was trying to diagnose some issues with ASP.NET Web Forms post backs so I turned off IPv6 even though none of my websites were bound to IPv6 addresses. I unchecked it on the adapter property page. I had no logical reason for doing this. Then Windows Update stopped working. This was from a Rackspace Cloud Server. I cannot imagine what kind of tunneling is taking place in various parts of the internet with IPv6 getting rolled out (finally).

Oh and by the way, I had trouble uploading this picture with BlogEngine.NET and I saw this article:

http://blogengine.codeplex.com/workitem/12382

I did what the user said (in settings unchecked optimize which minifies) and it solved the problem, however I am on IIS 8 not IIS Express.

Videos of the Blow Hole:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sunny%20cove%20blow%20hole&sm=3

.NET 4.5.1, IE 11, IIS 8 - oh my

This is not going well...

The page size of asp.net had increased when comparing to 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 ASP.NET 4.0

C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\Appcmd.exe  set config -section:httpCompression   -[name='gzip'].staticCompressionLevel:9  -[name='gzip'].dynamicCompressionLevel:4

 All of a sudden they got smaller...

This modified the applicationHost.config file.

Renew Certificate - Same Private Key

...if you actually have the original private key.
Tags: certificates, encryption, iis, certutil

Self-Signed Cerificates for IIS

Makecert that comes with Visual Sudio is the best way I know of to create self signed certificates for IIS.
Tags: makecert, iis, certificates, encryption, powershell