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FTP SSL and User Isolation all at once...

For a while now I've had a nice FTP server running on IIS 7 with User Isolation setup so that sub folders of LocalUser are isolated per user. Nice little feature. We recently had a third party require FTP access. "Easy" I thought and made a new account and folder on the FTP server and gave the third party the details. Fine they said, although this isn't SSL.  Ah said I. And simply put our wildcard cert on the server and enabled SSL binding the added cert. Nope, things looked ok from my FileZilla client however directory listings were failing when using SSL. I was using explicit mode and I was able to connect and log into the FTP site but getting my home folder always failed with a timeout. After A LOT of messing around and Googling. I found this page... http://geekswithblogs.net/QuandaryPhase/archive/2013/01/29/configuring-ftp-over-tls-in-iis-with-user-isolation.aspx Which says you can do what I want! This was the only page I found which actually wa