"... is an invalid IP address" when editing a site binding in IIS

I was trying to change a binding in IIS 7 on a VPC to test something out and I wanted to make the url "http://intranet" point to my newly created web application on port 567.

To do this, I went to the web site in IIS, right clicked on it, selected "Edit Bindings...", selected the only entry there, clicked "Edit..." and filled in "http://intranet" in the "Host name" box. When I clicked on "OK", I got the message "'*:567' is an invalid IP address.". Turns out you can't fill in "http://" there, which makes sense cause it's already mentioned in the "Type" field, but I still think it's not a clear error message you get...

So long story short: just fill in the actual host name and not the "http" part.

The path specified cannot be used at this time

When I opened my IIS manager (on a server with SharePoint 2007 installed) today and tried to connect to the localhost (which had always been possible in the past, without any changes done to the server), I suddenly got the error "The path specified cannot be used at this time". The solution for this is quite simple luckily... Just go to the services on your server and restart the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service. Then refresh your IIS manager and everything should be back to normal again!