Apache Tomcat 6 – .WAR won’t deploy

We run a Java application here that is published through Apache Tomcat running on Windows. The production version is Apache Tomcat 5.5.1.17 running on Windows Server 2003 with all updates applied. I’m currently carrying out some testing so that we can migrate this particular server to Windows 2008 shortly but the .WAR files wouldn’t deploy. Here’s how to configure everything properly....

Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IEESC) on Windows 2008

The default configuration for Windows Server 2008 still has Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration enabled. Considering most administrators probably disable this I wonder why it’s still there … nonetheless here is a script to disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IEESC) from a script....