Today one of our clients received a System.Net.WebException error on a newly deployed ASP.NET web application. Part of the exception was: “System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.”. Here is how we resolved that issue.
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Multiple vulnerabilities found in IIS 6.0 and 7.5 web servers. On the Full-Disclosure mailinglist Kingcope posted several IIS 6.0 and 7.5 bugs. Because I am a Windows Server and IIS admin, I took some time to test the various vulnerabilities …
…Adsutil.vbs is a versatile and useful tool to administer IIS 6.0 servers, and everyone knows it, of course. But, did you know there is a remote server command line parameter? With this you can use Adsutil.vbs on remote Windows Server IIS 6.0 servers. The parameter is:
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The classic ASP error “cdo.message.1 error 80040220 The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid” is an error message indicating your ASP script (website) can’t send its email out, or the IIS SMTP service is configured wrong. Here is how to fix the latter issue.
…“The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal state.” Over time, on a number of web servers (Windows 2003, IIS 6.0), with many running application pools, I noticed many – at first inexplicable – COM+ error messages.
…A quick post about an IIS 6.0 error “The tracking (workstation) service is not running“: Sometimes, after an iisreset and restarting an SSL website, the following error is displayed:
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