I need to restore IIS to a machine that was rebuilt. It was having a lot of problems, so the OS got wiped and reinstalled. It has the same OS and computer name. I have the metabase backup, but it's causing all kinds of problems (the admin service will run, but nothing else will, and I can't view...

I have a dedicated server, which sends emails out... Occassionally i get the below response: Reporting-MTA: dns;srv-b4d8a54 Received-From-MTA: dns;srv-b4d8a54 Arrival-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:48:12 +0200 Final-Recipient: rfc822;kim@abcxxxde.co.za Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550...

Title says it all really - Is it worth specifying a quad core cpu for a dedicated web server or will the additional 3 cores lie dormant? The OS will be windows server 2003 Standard or SBS 2003, haven't decided yet. Can IIS use multiple CPU cores or will it only use one?

We need assistance in building a VB Script that can set IP/Subnet restrictions on multiple folders and/or files in IIS for our web based application. Will need to accept a list of addresses and/or subnets. It needs to work under IIS 7, 6, 5. The current script on hand does not work in IIS7 without the...

Hi there, I have recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit) on my company laptop. I love it, however there are a few things that i need which i cannot seem to suss out. 1. I cannot seem to connect to IIS as it complains about not having any SMTP service installed 2. I do not have an SMTP Service installed...

Hi Expert, I am trying to insert the IIS log into a SQL Server for data analysis. I have read from websites that the log parse would allow inserting the log into DB. But as I tried it myself, I found 2 problems. The first problem is that each IIS Log begins with these 4 lines. When importing them, how...

I've seen a number of threads on this topic, yet none of the fixes seems to resolve my issue. I am moving an existing, fully functional ASP application to another box. The only differences between the two machines is that one is 32bit , the other is 64. I have reinstalled MDAC v2.8, re-registered...

I’m trying to run a VB.NET console application on a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6.0 and I can’t seem to get the authorization correct for it to run. When I execute the console app from the server I get the following error: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. What is interesting...

I got the following error when I tried to start the default web site: Unexpected Error Ox8ffe2740 Microsoft's web site says this about this error: This behavior may occur if a port conflict exists on the system. By default, IIS uses port 80 for HTTP communication. If an application other than IIS...

I have a test website that when I go to it from my workstation it comes up but very slowly. However when I go to the server itself and try to browse from IIS I get "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)". Also, If I open IE and try to do the same thing from the web server I get the same "Bad...