Archive for October, 2011

SystemCenter Solutions 2012 Beta avaiable for download!

Posted Oct.27, 2011 under News, Servers

System Center solutions help you manage your physical and virtual IT environments across datacenters, desktops, and devices. Using these integrated and automated management solutions, you can be a more productive service provider for your business. As a result of feedback we have gathered from all around the IT Pro universe, some great changes have been made to the System Center Evaluation experience.

With the release of the System Center 2012 beta evaluation in the TechNet Evaluation Center, you can now download and evaluate the most current versions of System Center 2012 products with a single registration.  This includes all of the following pre-release products:

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager RC
  • System Center Configuration Manager Beta
  • System Center Operations Manager Beta
  • System Center Orchestrator Beta
  • System Center Data Protection Manager Beta

However, if you aren’t ready to evaluate all the System Center products you can select the specific products you want to evaluate, again with only one simple registration as opposed to the multiple registrations previously required.

Head over to the System Center 2012 Evaluation Center and check it out

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/uktechnet/archive/2011/10/25/download-microsoft-system-center-2012-pre-release-products.aspx
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Encrypt your web.config file

Posted Oct.21, 2011 under IIS server, Servers, Windows and Powershell

Recently, I had a request from a customer, where he wanted to encrypt his web.config file ( wee, a part of it ). Since he didnt know how to do it by himself, he asked us to do it.

Basically, the procedure is very simple.

First, open IIS manager and find the web site you want to encrypt. Got it? Great, when you’re there, look at the site ID, write it somewhere.

 

Then, run command prompt ( as administrator ) and position yourself in the :

C:\Windows\Framework\v4.0.30319\

In case your application is running in .NET 2, position yourself in the V2.0.xxxx folder.

Type in the following command:

aspnet_regiis -pe “connectionStrings” ” -site “IDnumber”

What will this command do?

It will encrypt the connection string part of the web.config file, so it cannot be read in some text editor; ofcourse, your web server will still be able to read the connection string from the file, dont worry :)

BUT WHAT IF I HAVE A VIRTUAL DIRECTOY, AND I WANT TO ENCRYPT THAT web.config FILE?

No problem at all, just use this command:

aspnet_regiis -pe “connectionStrings” -app “/YOURVIRTUALFOLDER” -site “IDnumber”

Notice that I added a “-app “/YOURVIRTUALFOLDER” part to the command.

 

Thats all for today :D Stay smart and bright! :D Bye bye!

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