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IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server application and a set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft as part of Windows. IIS version 6 is shipped with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are end of life, so migration to newer releases must be done.

Internet Information Services (IIS) is a web server and a set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft as part of Windows.

IIS version 6 is shipped with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are end of life, so migration to newer Windows releases must be done.

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Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\MACHINENAME$'

I know this is almost a duplicate of : The error "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\IUSR'" in ASP.NET and SQL Server 2008 and Login failed for user 'username' - System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException with LINQ in external project / class library but…
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How to allow download of .json file with ASP.NET

How can I enable the download of *.json files from an old ASP.NET site (IIS6 I am led to believe)? I am getting a 404 page instead of the JSON file. Do I need to create a web.config file? What goes in it?
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IIS Request Timeout on long ASP.NET operation

I am experiencing a request timeout from IIS when I run a long operation. Behind the scene my ASP.NET application is processing data, but the number of records being processed is large, and thus the operation is taking a long time. However, I think…
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Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Unable to relay for abc@xyz.com

I am getting "Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Unable to relay for abc@xyz.com" when I try to send the mail using ASP.NET. The site is deployed on IIS7, Windows 2008 server. The website was working fine on IIS6 and Windows 2003…
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What happens when I edit web.config?

I need to edit the web.config file on a live Sharepoint environment, but I'm unsure what will happen if I do (I want to output custom errors). Will this cause the IIS6 worker process to recycle? Will active users lose their session state because of…
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CustomErrors does not work when setting redirectMode="ResponseRewrite"

In a old site, I was changing the way that CustomErrors works by adding redirectMode="ResponseRewrite" (new in 3.5 SP1):
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What does 'IISReset' do?

On IIS 6, what does an IIS reset do? Please compare to recycling an app pool and stopping and starting an ASP.NET web site. If you replace a DLL or edit/replace the web.config on an ASP.NET web site is that the same as stopping and starting that…
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Unmanaged DLLs fail to load on ASP.NET server

This question relates to an ASP.NET website, originally developed in VS 2005 and now in VS 2008. This website uses two unmanaged external DLLs which are not .NET and I do not have the source code to compile them and have to use them as is. This…
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Chrome, pdf display, Duplicate headers received from the server

I have a section on a website where I display a pdf inside a light box. The recent chrome upgrade has broken this displaying: Error 349 (net::ERR_RESPONSE_HEADERS_MULTIPLE_CONTENT_DISPOSITION): Multiple Content-Disposition headers received. This…
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ASP.NET MVC3 and Windows Auth on IIS keeps redirecting to /Account/Login

I'm running MVC3 and a windows auth web application. When I deploy to IIS6 it runs great until I hit a page that requires authentication. It then is auto-redirecting to /Account/Login when I have no trace of that in my application and my…
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Get IIS6 to serve JSON files (inc. POST,GET)?

By default, IIS6 does not serve .json (no wildcard MIME type). Therefore a 404 not found is thrown. I then add a new MIME type (.json, text/plain or application/x-javascript or application/json) which works fine. However, when you then add a new…
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Socket transport "ssl" in PHP not enabled

I'm having trouble enabling the socket transport "ssl" in PHP. When I run my script, I get the error: Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://www.my.site.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" -…
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IIS redirect preserve QueryString?

I have a url: http://mywebsite.com/Account/?Number=25191108&Name=Something&Remote=False which I would like to redirect to: http://anotherwebsite.com/whatever/ and preserve the query string:…
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How to secure Elmah.axd?

We're using Elmah as our error logging system for an app that will be going into production soon. It's extremely useful, but if it goes into production like this anyone in the world access the error log because all they have to do is visit…
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ASP.net HTTP 404 - File not found instead of MaxRequestLength exception

I have a file upload control on my webpage. The maximum request length is set to 8 MB (maxRequestLength = 8192). I also have server validation that throws an error if the file is more than 4MB. The reason that its 8MB in the config is the leverage…
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