Rather than whining about rude Apache admins, this article provides some tips tips for making the most of your IIS.

A senior IIS admin shares his experience and describes top 10 things to do to improve IIS, which are "Customize Your Error Pages", "Dive into the MetaBase", "Add spell checking to your URLs", "Rewrite your URLs", "Add browser detection", "Gzip site content", "Cache your content", "Tune your server", "Secure your server with simple fixes" and "Patch, patch, patch!".

Avalio Task Scheduler is component can be used in any application that can call ActiveX components. It includes ASP, IIS, MS Word, Access, Excel and many others. Avalio Task Scheduler gives you ability to manage required tasks according to schedule. The component can be used to create reports, update site content, call ASP pages at particular time, check if web-server is functioning or IIS requires restart.

A Visual Basic program designed to delete Client Variables stored in your registry. The utility has been tested on Windows 2000 Server and should work with all the Windows OS. In addition, this program allows the user to easily modify the config.txt file allowing for the removal of any other parts of the registry deemed necessary. There are times when some registry entries just need to be deleted. If you are wanting to quickly delete some registry entries, simply open up the attached config.txt file and modify the items after the = sign. The default setting is setup to delete the entries under the SOFTWAREAllaireColdFusionCurrentVersionKeyToBeDeleted=Clients

This set of components includes a timer and a thread sleep function along with system info reading like CPU speed and memory usage.

Masking or anonymizing a Web server involves removing identifying details that intruders could use to detect your OS and Web server vendor and version. This information, while providing little or no utility to legitimate users, is often the starting place for crackers, blackhat hackers and "script kiddies". This article explores some ways you can minimize the risk of such detection. Most of the examples focus on Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS), since it has been most widely lambasted for its vulnerabilities, but some Apache detection countermeasures are also covered. While IIS users probably have the most vested interest here, server anonymization is relevant to anyone responsible for administering a Web server.