Author name: Jess

With a background in web development and web server administration dating back to 1994, Jess Coburn founded Applied Innovations in 1999. As CEO, he led the company to become a recognized leader in Windows Hosting, specializing in ASP.NET, E-Commerce, and advanced web application hosting. Under Jess's leadership, Applied Innovations became known for making cutting-edge technology accessible and affordable for businesses. Building on this success, Jess expanded his vision by founding QIT Solutions, a managed cloud, IT, and cybersecurity company, where he continues to leverage his extensive industry experience to deliver innovative and secure IT solutions to businesses.

Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) File Extractor

We recently needed a way to extract files from a sharepoint site’s document libraries. With sharepoint all the files are stored in a SQL database so it would seem connecting to the database and pulling all the files out manually wouldn’t be such a hard thing to do. After a fair amount of time googling for […]

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Are You Getting ViewState Errors like: “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted.”

If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio.  For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique

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Are You Getting ViewState Errors like: "The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted."

If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio.  For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique

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How Microsoft UK got hacked and how you can learn from their mistakes

I subscribe to windowsecurity.com‘s newsletter which is actually a pretty good read. Today’s newsletter has an article about the Microsoft UK Events Website getting defaced and goes into great detail to show just how the site was compromised. In a nutshell, they used SQL Injection and the fact that the web.config was configured to display

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