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I am running IIS 7.5 and back-end of a web application. This web app is only accessible from within the intranet.
Currently it can be accessed as http://f97fa43fa - some combination of letters and numbers. I would like to create a more friendly name for the web site.
How do I do that? Thanks.
PS - I tried the redirect feature, but it did not work.

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