puffpio's questions

I have a windows instance up in EC2. I manually set the timezone to Pacific.

1) For some reason using window's built in time sync doesn't work in the instance...but whatever. I turn off automatic time syncing...

but 2) On reboot the time on the server changes! For example, if i reboot it at 4PM on Wednesday, when the server comes back up it will read 12 noon on Thursday!

As a result any access to Amazon's other services like SImpleDB fail because the timestamps generated are too far off the current time.

Has anyone seen this or figured this out?

In the options for setting up the SMTP server hosted in IIS, there exists an option to enable TLS on outbound connections which I want. However I also want it to be able to fallback to clear text in the event that the mail server it is talking to is not TLS enabled.

Will IIS6's SMTP server do that? Or will I need to setup two SMTP servers, one TLS enabled for outbound connections, and one not?

I have a WCF webservice hosted in IIS6 that another site will POST to in a cross domain manner using jquery.

Because it is a cross domain POST, the browser first sends an OPTIONS verb with Access-Control-Request-Method: POST However, IIS6 does not respond back with anything.

Is this something that I need to handle at a web service level or something at the IIS level?