Hot on the heals of the release of the Web Platform Instaler (see other post) comes the WAI...

 

 

You get... up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server.

Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more.

With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer.

 

How neat is that? Its for the Win!!!!

 

Additional Links to more info:
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Overview
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Forum
 Microsoft Web Platform Portal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Goal :  being to make the URL's more browseable for users. If a user chops off the last virtual sub directory to the path IE should automatically navigate to the new "parent" location/page.

 

URL Rewriting in ASP.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/urlrewriting.asp

Intercept, Monitor, and Modify Web Requests with HTTP Filters in ISAPI and ASP.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/08/httpfilters/

The biggest pitfall is postbacks. 

The limitation for postbacks is that every letter combination must have an entry in IIS.

 

 

Most of the time its better just to get clients that require a client cert. just to browse to the certificate server and download one. However sometimes they may be remote, and unable to access it via the URL of the cert. server. In that instance heres how to do it...

 

Exporting the new certificate data to a file:
1. From a machine on the network, go to /certsrv"http://<servername>/certsrv
<http://<servername>.
2. Select 'Request a certificate' and clickm on the Next button.
3. Select 'Advanced request' and click Next.
4. Select 'Submit a certificate request to this CA using a form' and click on Next.

5. In the form, type an appropriate username and email address. Under Intended
purpose' select 'Client Authentication Certificate'. Under 'Key Options' select
'Mark keys as exportable' and then 'Export keys to file'. For the file name do not
include an extension. Now clikc the Submit button.
6. You'll receive two prompts about exporting the key - select Yes on each.
7. At this point you'll be prompted for a password - enter it now and click on OK.

8. Click on 'Download CA Certificate' to save it to a file and then do the same for
'Download CA Certification path'.
9. If this was successful you'll end up with two files. The certificate itself is
the .CER file and the trusted root path is the .P7B file. These are the two files
that must be imported on the client.

 

*** Assumed step here is that you use some method to copy the cer/p7b files to the client machine.

       EMAIL/FILESHARE/FTP/ETC

 

Importing the certificate onto the client:
1. Run MMC and add the Certificates snap-in for the local computer.
2. Right click on the Personal folder and select All Tasks and then Import.
3. Following the wizard to import the CER file. Go with all default values in the
wizard.
4. Right click on the Trusted Root Certification Authorities folder and select All
Tasks and then Import.
5. Following the wizard to import the P7B file. Go with all default values in the
wizard.

At this point the certificate should be installed and usable