IIS, mutual authentication using SSL certificates

Not everyone knows that IIS (Internet Information Services), the webserver included in Windows Server, offers the possibility to perform mutual authentication using SSL certificates. You probably saw that, within the site’s SSL configuration, you can require an SSL client certificate to the client that is connecting: in this case, IIS only verifies that the submitted certificate…

IIS, how to debug HTTP errors

Today I faced a problem during the setup of a new application: if I opened a browser and entered the URL of the application, I got the following error message To be able to identify the root cause of the error, I found a new feature added in the latest versions of Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services):…

WinRM, exceeded MaxEnvelopeSize quota

Today, while I was configuring an Exchange 2010 server, I got the following error: The WinRM […] was notified that the request size exceeded the configured MaxEnvelopeSize quota The MaxEnvelopeSize parameter defines the maximum size (in Kb) of a single SOAP request. Sometimes you may need to increase the value to be able to run a big script/command…