Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT]
Discussing IIS, FTP, WebDAV, FPSE, WMI, ADSI, ISAPI, ASP, Java, FastCGI, etc. ;-)
Fun with Search Engines (Revisited)
Several months ago I wrote a blog that was titled "Fun with Search Engines (Bing versus [other]),"...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/14/2010
Modifying Configuration Redirection Settings using PowerShell
I have to admit right up front that I'm not a PowerShell expert. But having said that, I had a great...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/09/2010
Detecting FTP Leeches with LogParser
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day, "How do I detect if any users are leeching...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/02/2010
Configuration Reference Update and Help File Downloads
Over the past few months we've been working on an update to the IIS Configuration Reference, which...
Author: robmcm Date: 08/05/2010
Uh, yeah - I meant to fix that...
One of my coworkers (Mike Pope) sent me the link to a great blog post by Raymond Chen that was...
Author: robmcm Date: 08/04/2010
FTP Clients - Part 9: Expression Web 4
For this installment in my series about FTP Clients I'm going to review the FTP features in...
Author: robmcm Date: 07/29/2010
Scripting the SmartFTP Client
In my last blog post I reviewed the SmartFTP Client, where I briefly mentioned that the SmartFTP...
Author: robmcm Date: 05/07/2010
FTP Clients - Part 8: SmartFTP Client
For this installment in my series about FTP Clients I'm going to review the SmartFTP Client from...
Author: robmcm Date: 05/07/2010
FPSE and Form Results over Email (SMTP)
I have seen many issues over the past few years when customers try to use the FrontPage Server...
Author: robmcm Date: 05/06/2010
FrontPage Server Extensions and UNC Content
How to get the FPSE2002 AllowUNC feature to work with Windows Server 2008 I've had a few questions...
Author: robmcm Date: 04/28/2010
IIS 6.0 WebDAV and Compound Document Format Files
We recently ran into a situation where a customer thought that they were seeing file corruption when...
Author: robmcm Date: 04/21/2010
Updated IIS 7 Configuration Reference
One of the many projects that I've been working on for the past several months is an updated version...
Author: robmcm Date: 03/11/2010
Using FTP with Different Account Types
I was going through some of my notes the other day and I stumbled across the following chart that I...
Author: robmcm Date: 03/05/2010
Outlook Macros Part 2: Cleaning Up Your Calendar
Continuing my brief departure from my normal IIS-related blogs and looking at Office Outlook again,...
Author: robmcm Date: 03/04/2010
Outlook Macros Part 1: Moving Emails Into Personal Folders
I'd like to take a brief departure from my normal IIS-related blogs and write about something that...
Author: robmcm Date: 02/25/2010
FTP Clients - Part 7: Kermit FTP Client
Since I started reviewing FTP clients I've had a few requests to look at a few different FTP...
Author: robmcm Date: 02/24/2010
Sending WebDAV Requests in .NET
Earlier today one of my coworkers, John Bocharov, asked me if I had ever done any WebDAV coding in...
Author: robmcm Date: 02/09/2010
Fun with Search Engines (Bing versus [other])
Several months ago I read the following article and I found it fascinating, albeit in a humorous...
Author: robmcm Date: 01/31/2010
IIS Videos on Dr. Dobb's Web Site
Like many people I know, I get a lot of email from various industry-related publications; some of...
Author: robmcm Date: 12/26/2009
Using URL Rewrite with Web Site Testing
Recently I ran into an interesting situation when I was rolling out a new web-based application. I...
Author: robmcm Date: 10/13/2009
Migrating FPSE Roles Between Servers
I ran into one of those strange situations the other day where you feel like you've been doing the...
Author: robmcm Date: 10/12/2009
Creating a Microsoft Access Provider for IIS Database Manager
Following up on my last blog post about the API set for the IIS Database Manager, I have something...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/25/2009
Database Manager API Topics on MSDN
Today Microsoft released version 1.0 of the IIS Database Manager, which enables you to manage local...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/24/2009
eWeek Reviews for IIS 7.5 and FTP 7.5
One of my coworkers, Vijay Sen, just forwarded the following eWeek review of IIS 7.5 to me:...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/23/2009
FTP 7.5 Extensibility and Visual Studio Express Editions
In earlier blog posts I have mentioned that I written the several walkthroughs to help developers...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/17/2009
Hiding your FTP Server Type and Preventing Unauthorized Access
As evidenced by my How to Use Managed Code (C#) to Create an FTP Authentication Provider with...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/10/2009
Creating Recursive Directory Listing Files for FTP Clients
One of the changes that we made in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 was to remove recursive directory listings,...
Author: robmcm Date: 09/05/2009
The End of Metabase Corruption (R.I.P.)
Even though IIS 7 with its new XML-based configuration settings has been around for a while, I was...
Author: robmcm Date: 08/22/2009
Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs - Part 2
I had not intended to do a series on this subject when I wrote my original Merging FTP Extensibility...
Author: robmcm Date: 08/19/2009
Automatically Creating Checksum Files for FTP Uploads
I had a great question in the publishing forums on forums.iis.net, where someone was asking if FTP 7...
Author: robmcm Date: 07/30/2009
[A Little Scripting Saved My Day (;-])](../robert_mcmurray/a-little-scripting-saved-my-day)
I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I tend to write many of my blog posts and walkthroughs...
Author: robmcm Date: 07/27/2009
Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs
Over the past several months I’ve been publishing a series of walkthroughs that use the...
Author: robmcm Date: 07/23/2009
Using Apple's WebDavFS for Mac OS X with WebDAV on IIS 7
Today's blog post needs to have a disclaimer right up front - I freely admit I'm not a Mac OS X...
Author: robmcm Date: 07/01/2009
Using LogParser with FTP 7.x Sessions
One of the great features that we added to our W3C logging enhancements in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 is...
Author: robmcm Date: 06/11/2009
FTP Clients - Part 6: Core FTP LE
For this installment in my series about FTP Clients, I'd like to take a look at the Core FTP client....
Author: robmcm Date: 05/01/2009
FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References
As I pointed out in my recent blog post that was titled "FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released",...
Author: robmcm Date: 04/23/2009
Creating a Read-Only Membership Provider for phpBB 2.0 Users
I recently posted a blog that was titled Creating a Read-Only Snitz Membership Provider, where I...
Author: robmcm Date: 04/20/2009
Advertising IIS Around the World
In case you haven't already surmised from some of my other blog posts, I've been around IIS for a...
Author: robmcm Date: 04/10/2009
FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released!
Over the next few days you're going to hear a lot of details about many of the great new IIS...
Author: robmcm Date: 03/18/2009
Creating a Read-Only Snitz Membership Provider
For this blog post I'm going to take a brief departure from my FTP client series and share some code...
Author: robmcm Date: 02/16/2009
New IIS 7.0 Configuration Reference
For the past several months I have been working with several members of the IIS team on a brand-new...
Author: robmcm Date: 01/21/2009
FTP Clients - Part 5: MOVEit Freely Command-Line Secure FTP Client
For this installment in my series about FTP Clients, I'd like to take a look at the MOVEit Freely...
Author: robmcm Date: 01/07/2009
FTP Clients - Part 4: FileZilla
For this next installment in my FTP Clients series, I'd like to take a look at the FileZilla FTP...
Author: robmcm Date: 12/17/2008
FTP Clients - Part 3: Creating a Global Listener FTP Site
In my "FTP Clients - Part 1: Web Browser Support" blog post, I mentioned creating a secured Global...
Author: robmcm Date: 12/17/2008
FTP Clients - Part 2: Explicit FTPS versus Implicit FTPS
In part 2 of my series on FTP clients, I thought it would be best to have a discussion about the...
Author: robmcm Date: 11/10/2008
Using Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit Computer to edit ApplicationHost.config
Visual Studio 2008 as an XML Editor Everyone seems to have their own favorite XML editor these days,...
Author: robmcm Date: 10/27/2008
AppCmd 80070057 errors when configuring site-level settings
I had an interesting question from a coworker who was trying to use AppCmd to set the site-level SSL...
Author: robmcm Date: 10/02/2008
'Category does not exist' error when viewing IIS Worker Processes in IIS Manager
I ran into an interesting problem recently when using the new Worker Processes feature in the...
Author: robmcm Date: 10/01/2008