Baldy's questions

I have an Azure Container Service instance running Docker Swarm which contains instances of a single web application written in NodeJS.

I now want to ensure all traffic comes to the website via HTTPS. I cannot find any documentation on how to set up certificates and domain names for Azure Container Service. Would i be right in assuming that the best practice here is to stand an NGINX container in front of the web app containers, and configure the certificate & domain name there?

The Azure Container Service has an azure load balancer in front of the swarm, but there is nothing that suggests how to configure an SSL certificate for it.

It is not obvious what the best approach is, so any help would be appreciated.

I am migrating some web apps from a windows 2003 server with IIS6 server to a Windows server 2008 R2 server with IIS7.

One of the apps, which runs on asp.net v2.0 using forms authentication will not load.

It gives me the following error...

The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)

Now i fully understand that the app cannot load some kind of resource due to a FileNotFoundException, but i am struggling to diagnose exactly where in the application this is happening, as it does not tell me what the module is, nor what file it is looking for.

I have enabled failed request tracing and i get back a complete request trace, yet i cannot find anything that gives me detail on this specific error, or the module involved.

Here is a log (and the xsl sheet) from a failed request...

XML Log File

XSL Stylesheet for log file

Download both to your machine and open the xml file.

Any advice on diagnosing the root cause of the issue would be greatly appreciated.

I have a 32bit windows 2008 server, with IIS7.

have loaded up my .net4.0 web app and all i get is the grey screen with...

500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

No matter what i do, it will not show error details. customErrors="off" doesnt make any differece, there is nothing in the iis logs, nor can i find anything in event viewer.

i thought asp.net 4.0 was broken, but i tried uploading a plain asp.net 2.0 app to the same website, changing the app pool version to v2, and that gave the same error.

why on earth is it so difficult to get any information from iis7 in this situation? i dont even get the blue/white/red error details.

all other websites on the server are working fine (a variety of .net 2, 3, 3.5 and v4 apps)

i added elmah to my app, and that gives the same mystical error.

No Dice.

We have a windows 2003 server with around 2000+ local accounts on it. Most of these accounts are used simply to authenticate a user accessing a web application on the server (basic authentication in IIS). They do not use desktop logins.

We are now moving to a new server that runs windows server 2008, and are facing the issue of how to migrate the local account username/password combinations to the new server.

Is this possible with built-in tools?

Could i convert the existing local accounts into active directory accounts, then join the 2008 server into the active directory and sync the accounts that way?

I have seen a product called winzero password copy and winzero server migration tool. Are these reliable tools for the job? http://www.winzero.ca/

Any other advice on how to approach this welcomed.

UPDATE

We went with the Winzero Server Migrator software and it successfully migrated 2000+ local accounts on a 32 bit windows 2003 server to a 64bit windows 2008 server, passwords intact.