Brett Hill

We registered a COM object on our IIS 5.0 Web server. The object reads a configuration file to determine which drives the application should save data to. We mapped drives to remote shares and can't get the COM object...

We installed IIS on a Windows 2000 Server system but haven't been able to run applications on it. We can deliver HTML but not Active Server Pages (ASP). The most common error we receive is The server failed to load...

Our firewall logs show a lot of activity, but we don't have any way to analyze information about attacks—all we have are the IP addresses that launched the attacks. We'd like to advise the ISPs that own the IP...

Microsoft IIS binary files are installed on the system disk by default. However, for security reasons, we want to change the name and location of the metabase. How can we go about accomplishing this task, and can you...

We have a known leaky application running on our Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 server. Periodically, we need to restart the server to free up memory. How can we set IIS to restart when not enough...

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I have a Web site with about 50 virtual directories listed in order of creation. I could manage the virtual directories more easily if I could sort them alphabetically, but I haven't figured out how to do so. When I...

We recently added a few Web sites to our IIS 5.0 server, and we use Active Server Pages (ASP) on those sites. However, in the event of a 500-100 error, only the Default Web Site returns a detailed error message. How...