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WCF web service response blank on window server 2019 but the same release works normally on server 2016

We have a website that migrated from windows server 2016 to 2019 recently. After the migration, infra crew found all the aspx pages shows blank and after digging into it, we found it's since the web ...
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How to register identical WCF endpoints under different Subdomains?

How do I have two services offer identical WCF endpoints under different subdomains? I have two Services, each trying offering WCF Endpoints to consumers in my network: Service 1: https://subdomain1....
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How does XCEP policy (XML) define SubjectType for User or Computer constraint?

We've developed our own implementation of a XCEP/CES WCF service that uses a combination of our certificate management solution and the Microsoft CA to issue the certificates. The standard XCEP XML ...
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IIS appears to allow maximum of one concurrent WCF webservice call per client

We have a windows application which calls webservice methods for database access. We've found a case where we make a long (15+ seconds), asynchronous webservice call to a WCF service on IIS. If the UI ...
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Mutual authentication (WCF client connecting to SOAP service) fails with one client cert but works with another (but both trusted on server side)

Setup: a .NET (4.6) client application connects to a remote SOAP service over HTTPS. The remote service can be configured to require a a client certificate or not. What I am looking as an answer is ...
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IIS WCF 503 Errors - Where to Find Logs of Them

I am trying to figure out where I can find the logs which list HTTP 503 errors that IIS has been returning when servicing requests for a WCF service that it hosts. I have looked in the following ...
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WCF "rejected the client credentials" just for one user account on two computers

I am getting the well known WCF service error when connecting from a client. The server has rejected the client credentials. Logon attempt failed. as described e.g. in this question. My problem is ...
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How can I check if my wcf service is using NTLM or Kerberos?

My WCF service is hosted in IIS and communicates with it's clients via TCP (net.tcp binding), not http. I'm using Microsoft Network Monitor to monitor traffic on the server. I see the Protocol Name is ...
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WCF Discovery on Windows Server 2019 getting ICMP Typ 3 Code 3

The problem: I've installed Windows Server 2019 and I am trying to discover my WCF services running on a Windows Server 2012R2. But that's not working and in Wireshark I see a ICMP Destination ...
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IIS is overloaded with service requests

I have a Windows 2012R2 server with IIS10 on it. We've been running a wfc service on it for a few years but lately it's giving time out messages. I looked at the performance monitor and it shows quite ...
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IIS 10 - How to show DNS-alias / port 80 in WSDL-url for a WCF-service behind load balancer

Our IIS setup has a IIS Application Request server in front of three types of IIS servers (ruleengine, Microfocus Cobol on IIS and "the rest of the applications". All the basic setup of each server is ...
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Getting Authentication Negotiate instead of NTLM while consuming SOAP WCF Service in Net.Core 2.1

I was trying to connect to a WCF SOAP service using NTLM Authentication Scheme, I succeeded at it when using .Net Framework 4.x but when I try to consume the same service in .NET Core 2.1 it fails (...
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Possibility for a server to ensure WCF service is accessible to endpoint

I have hosted a WCF service in a server and I have 500+ endpoints(PCs) listening and consuming the service by running an executable as windows-service in all those endpoints. Problem: Some PCs are ...
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Details Log on IIS 8.5

On my IIS log I found errors that occur randomly when a client calls my WCF service. The error log is this: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 8.5 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2018-12-13 10:...
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How to restrict a IIS7 WCF service to a specific IP

I'm trying to enable one IP adress from accessing and consuming my WCF service. How can i do it ? is there a way to do it with IIS ?
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Authentication error when connecting to WCF service via Load balancer to the same server

I have 2 servers. Each of them has one WCF service installed. The client connects to the services through the load balancer. The load balancer distributes requests to these 2 servers. When the load ...
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Issue accessing remote web service port from a Windows Server box

I have an issue where every laptop and phone I have access to can access a 3rd party remote URL (which contains WCF service) at an address like: http://example.com:17001/ServiceName.svc This can be ...
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IIS 8.5 throwing 400 Bad request in Production when calling REST WS using Post method

I've a strange issue. Let me explain in details below step by step: I've a vendor developed REST WS (Made using WCF) for synchronizing data with MS CRM. I've developed a windows service, which ...
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Named Pipe Access Denied when not running as Local System

I'm working on an issue at the moment where a WCF application creates a named pipe, which is then to be accessed by an asp.net application running in IIS. I didn't write the WCF application, I'm just ...
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the file is open in IIS Worker Process

I have a WCF service hosted on IIS7. I am using source control tool (IBM RTC) to manage code base and continuous deployment on our testing server. but my deployment is failing because IIS has acquired ...
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How to prevent IIS from recycling Application Pool when a worker process is unresponsive

We have a WCF service which handles great amount of requests. As I discovered, when the number of cuncurrent requests exceed the limit of max cuncurrent connections, the consequent requests will be ...
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IIS 7 WCF Webservices giving 404 error over HTTPS

I have some WCF webservices running under IIS 7.5 which are responding correctly to http requests but respond with 404 (Not Found) errors when methods are called using SSL. The binds for the site are ...
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How long does a Windows machine use its old SAM name after the computer name is changed?

I changed the name of a domain-joined Windows 10 Pro machine and rebooted it immediately as suggested. When the system came back up, it did have the new name (\\NEWNAME\share\ works), but WCF clients ...
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Is it possible for two legs of a service to have the same SPN? Or at least clients refer to a single identity?

For a WCF service "SuperService", installed on two separate servers "Server1" and "Server2" - is it possible to have a single SPN identity string to which the WCF client "SuperClient" can refer? Such ...
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Azure Cloud Services Running 4 hours straight [closed]

I've deployed some WCF services to the Azure Cloud Services, but it shows every day that it runs for 4 hours, when no-one is using the services. The only thing I thought was maybe it was hackers ...
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How to prevent browser from prompting for a client certificate and allow the IIS to accept it (not require it)?

In a web application, I have a WCF service uses Client Certificate authentication. I checked "Accept Client Certificate" in IIS - SSL Settings and it works fine. But some times, in some browsers, if a ...
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Certificate stops working after computer reboot

Got a strange issue that I just can't find any clues. We have a program (Qlikview) which talks to a remote admin service via SSL (Qlikview Server) but it uses the certificate to validate the client. ...
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net.tcp WCF self hosted service can't connect through IP but it connectes through localhost

I have windows server 2012 with IIS 8.5 When I try to access the silverlight project in the same machine using address http://localhost/silverlightproject, everything goes right but when I use the IP ...
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Cross-server NTLM authentication failing

I think this issue has less to do with software development and more to do with general network configuration, so I'm posting the question here initially. I have an MVC4 application hosted in IIS 7.5 ...
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Working WCF WebServices with NLB server

Im starting the architecture of a new project using WCF, but im not the right person to make some network considerations, so im doing some research but cannot find the answers to these questions: We´...
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WCF not working on some servers

I'm getting the exception: "Maximum number of items that can be serialized or deserialized in an object graph is '65536'" on two (Staging, and Production) out of three servers, and I can't think why ...
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IIS 7.5 - Change of bin files causes restart of other application

I have a problem where change of bin folder of one application, lets call it "X", causes other application ("Y") to restart. It looks like "Y" detects change of X\bin and decides it needs to restart. ...
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can you install iis 7.5 full version on windows 7? [closed]

I have windows 7 professional installed on my pc. I have IIS 7.5 installed, but not sure if that is express edition or not. I deployed my WCF app on the IIS server. kept getting this error message. ...
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unable to setup net.tcp bindings for wcf application running on IIS

I am trying to set up NET.TCP bindings for a WCF application deployed on IIS. I have already added net.tcp to Enabled Protocols of application, but when I am trying to add net.tcp binding, its ...
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Why is Kerberos security failing for our ADFS proxy server?

We have a WCF service that uses active federation to authenticate callers via AD FS 2.0 and it's working fine internally. Now we want to expose it to the outside world, so our server team set up a ...
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Can I find out what certificate revocation server an application is contacting?

I'm trying to install an application on a machine running Windows XP Pro. There are two different servers being contacted, both using the same wildcard certificate (GoDaddy). One via https, one ...
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Detailed Errors not working for WCF Service in IIS

If I were to change the web.config file to have errors in it, I only see the standard 500 - Internal Server Page. Despite setting the Error Pages mode to Detailed, I can't see a detailed error ...
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Hosting a WCF Service on IIS in a LAN without internet connection

This is probably a very simple fix, but I can't figure out what is wrong. I have two computers connected to the LAN ports on a D-Link WiFi router. I do not have an internet connection. The WiFi ...
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Using Same X.509 serviceCertificate on Multiple WCF Services?

I have an application which exposes multiple WCF services (each a distinct facade for different client applications). Right now I'm managing a distinct certificate (created from our internal ...
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Getting error when deploying webservice to iis 7.5

I've been ask by the programming department to test deploying one of their app. For all I know about the app, is that it's a webservice wcf code c# for a wpf app. They did tell me that they did try to ...
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Setup IIS to require client certificate and to use anonymous authentication

Setup IIS to require client certificate and to use anonymous authentication I have a WCF web service for our customers to use. I want to protect this using client certificates. I will also use the ...
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windows QUEUE MESSAGES error on open - The list of messages cannot be retrieved. Error: Access is denied

Problem: When opening windows "QUEUE MESSAGES" on windows server 2003 I received the error message "The list of messages cannot be retrieved. Error: Access is denied" Why? Recreated following ...
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BizTalk configuration broken following WCF hotfix installation

I usually post over on StackOverflow, but thought this was probably better suited to ServerFault. Please migrate if I'm wrong! I am developing a WCF service and a BizTalk application on my ...
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IIS get full error message for failed requests

I have IIS set-up and serving my webservice. Unfortunately if the webservice throws an exception, all I get is a blue box with the title failed request. What options do I have to actually see what ...
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How to configure WCF Service to AutoStart in AppFabric when the services reside in the website root

I'm trying to configure my WCF services under WIndows Server 2008 R2's IIS and AppFabric to auto-start, but the steps listed at MSDN are possible only when the services reside in an application, but ...
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Running multiple services on one Port 443 is possible?

I am new to network and firewall things, In our 2008 R2 server i have configured WCF service on windows service with port 443 and later i found another windows service already using the same port ...
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TCP Window Scaling. TCP scale factor not supported due to dynamic TCP Frame Size on windows 2008 server

PROBLEM Calling an asp webservice hosted by an ISP from our WCF service hosted on Windows 2008 Server is showing timeout/no response from webservice. DIAGNOSIS Using windows network monitor to ...
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IIS 6.0 preventing "PUT" & "DELETE" method types on WCF 4.0 web service calls (403 Forbidden)

I am a developer trying to assist my server admin in figuring out how to get this issue corrected. But I have an app that is using WCF 4.0 configure-less setup to make RESTful webservices calls. ...
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Why doesn't IIS scale consistently?

I have a WCF service (written in .NET 4) running under IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit. I created a test tool that spawns 10-20 (or more) threads - each thread creates a random payload and hits the ...
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IIS 7.5 " web service does not conform to WS-I Basic Profile v1.1."

I am trying to migrate a site from IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. When the page loads, I receive the error as shown in the screenshot below. Even while files are identical on the IIS 6 server (where this works), ...
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