IIS .Net Solutions and Developers

From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:37:40 GMT

Hello,

The company is on the .Net solutions push company wide which will be
implemented sometime in the near future. Of course, one of the big
concerns is IIS running on a developer's workstation. The one thing I
have heard is using the IIS Lockdown Tool to secure the developer's
workstation, which I have used in doing some .Net Training here at home.
The Lockdown Tool stopped any development work I was doing with ASP.NET
and IIS and I had to unlock IIS to continue development work.

The person who is basically a Training person is involved with the
decision making process with Systems and Tech Support, which I started
talking with about using IIS and .Net from a developer's standpoint.

It's just like with InterDev that was installed on my machine. I cannot
fully use InterDev to debug and ASP application from my workstation,
because IIS is not on the workstation and one must go through some Mickey
Mouse routine by debugging an ASP application on the DEV Web server using
response.write and other means, instead of being able to use the
debugging tools in InterDev.

Like the Training person indicated they are concerned about FTP services
and shutting it down or a contractor coming in and hacking IIS on a
developer's machine. There is also laptop workstations that leave the
building using VPN work situation etc., etc, which PFW for dial-up users
or NAT router is used supplied by the company.

I would like to get a little feed back from the NG concerning the
security issues and possible solutions and/or workarounds. As I would
like to avoid the situation the developers face with using InterDev when
.Net is deployed to the developer's workstation and it cannot be used to
its fullest capabilities as a development tool.

Thanks

Duane :)

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