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Install Certificate Services on Windows Server 2008 R2

This post picks up where the last post left off.  In the last post, we created a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Domain Controller and stopped short of going on to add Certificate Services into the mix.
If you’re not sure if you need certificate services for your environment, it never hurts to have it [...]

MOSS: An Unexpected Error Has Occurred

If you’ve worked with MOSS long enough, I’m sure you’ve seen this error.  The reasons that it occurs are numerous, and may even be blamed on poor error handling / reporting by the programmers.
If you’ve come across this error, and turned <customErrors /> off in your MOSS site’s web.config and it still occurs, you may [...]

Building an Active Directory Domain Controller for Development using VMware Workstation – Pt. 2

In my last post, we created a VM (Virtual Machine) using VMware Workstation 6.5.2 running Windows Server 2003 R2.  If you’re getting started here with a VM of your own, or physical hardware, the current status of the VM for this tutorial is a standard Windows Server 2003 R2 installation, with all recommended updates / [...]

IIS Can Manage Multiple Web sites on Port 80 with a single IP address

Host Headers are the answer!
YES!  IIS can manage multiple web sites on the same port (properly port 80) without having to do extraneous configuring.  This can even be done with MOSS and WSS implementations.
I’ve always considered it to be common knowledge that ‘host headers’ could be used to allow IIS to handle multiple web sites [...]