Monday, 8 September 2008

Visual Studio 2008 WinDiff

Visual Studio 2008 does not create a menu link to WinDiff. One has to create a shortcut oneself to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin

That is, if you installed Visual Studio with the installations defaults.

Update path as necessary.

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Self Certify IIS6

Install the IIS 6 Resource Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499

Retrieve the site identifier of the relevant website using Internet Information Services Manager. i.e. click on Web Sites in the tree in the left hand pane and the number you require is in the identifier column in the right hand pane. Note that Default Web Site is 1.

Kick off a dos promt and type the following
"C:\Program Files\IIS Resources\SelfSSL\selfssl.exe" /T /N:CN=www.abc.com /V:365 /S:123

replace www.abc.com with your host header
replace 365 with the required number of days
replace 123 with the site identifier obtained above