Deliberations
Thoughts on the problems and solutions I work with every day, along with musings on random topics.
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Setting up a CA Hierarchy is too hard
Man Certificate Authorities are just hard. And the documentation is lengthy and cryptic. Why hasn't anyone written it up in a simpler form?
In the next few posts I'll show you in easy language how … more
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AD-Integrated FTP Sites aren't writeable
...but they can be.
By default, all FTP Sites within IIS are read-only sites. If you want someone to be able to upload files, you just tick the Write box on the Home Directory tab, and you're set. … more
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Clustering with Access-Based Enumeration (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article we wrote a short script to re-enable Access-Based Enumeration on a clustered file share. In part 2, we'll dissect the script and make some improvements to the code so that … more
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Clustering with Access-Based Enumeration (Part 1)
Access-Based Enumeration is a rather cool add-on to Windows Server 2003 that allows an administrator to restrict what users can see on a file share. If Access-Based Enumeration is enabled for a share, … more
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IIS 6: User Isolation with Active Directory
I'm busy migrating everything off our single host to a collection of virtual machines. One of the things we do is apply User Isolation in IIS 6 so that when people use FTP to access the system, they … more
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Windows NFS Limitations
NFS has been a native part of Windows since the Windows 2003 R2 release, some 18 months ago now. The version of NFS in Windows 2003 R2 is a descendant of the Services For Unix package that has been … more
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Upgrading to WDS ...
We had the strangest experience attempting to upgrade a customer's RIS server from Windows 2003 SP1 to SP2 this week.
This upgrade is supposed to be simple, straightforward ... and non-breaking. How … more
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Server Reconfiguration (aka "And down the rabbit hole they went")
Well the recent resurfacing of the LAND attack [secunia.com] has proven a good enough incentive to revisit security on the server.
Every system administrator knows that security is an ongoing fight. … more
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Thoughts on Deployment
The server deployment needs to be straightforward. No-one likes disaster recovery plans that include "Dance naked around a maypole embedded in sand of the purest white while offering prayers to the … more
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Enterprise Deployment
Here's a thought - how do you get the client software for your new application deployed to your 200 (or 2000, or 20000!) client PCs?
Well, if you're me, you don't want to walk around to each PC … more