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title: Running Open & Click tracking and IIS on the same machine
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# Running Open & Click tracking and IIS on the same machine

It is important for deliverability reasons to use HTTP port 80 for  
open and click tracking. If you have IIS installed, by default it will  
take ownership of port 80 on all IP Addresses. When this happens,  
setting the MTA to use port 80 will result in the error below when  
starting the server.

*System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): Only one usage of  
each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally  
permitted at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoBind*

To fix this on Windows Server 2008 and later you can use the netsh  
command line tool to release port 80 for IP's not being used by an IIS  
web site.

To display all IP addresses in the IIS IP listen list  
netsh http show iplisten

To add an ip to IIS  
netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=1.2.3.4

To remove an IP from IIS  
netsh http delete iplisten ipaddress=1.2.3.4

Be sure to test your IIS websites after using these commands to ensure  
that there were no unintended consequences.

You can find more information at  
[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725882.aspx#BKMK\_11](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725882.aspx#BKMK_11)  
\[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725882.aspx#BKMK\_11\].

 

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