February 2012 - Posts
Tweet Below is a guest-post by Terri, one of the managed Windows support engineers at OrcsWeb. If you’ve ever run into the situation where you want to analyze performance data on Windows Server and don’t know what counters to collect … Read more »...( read more ) Read More...
I’m really excited to be able to give you an update on our strategy and product roadmap for big data, especially around our embrace of Apache Hadoop as part of our data platform. As you may remember, at the PASS Summit last October we laid out our roadmap for Big Data , with Microsoft Corporate Vice President Ted Kummert announcing plans to deliver enterprise class Apache Hadoop based distributions on both Windows Server and Windows Azure . Even more importantly, he announced that Microsoft...( read more ) Read More...
My colleague Grigori Melnik has a great blog post about the CQRS Journey project, which aims to deliver the source code for a complete, working reference implementation (an end-to-end sample app) that illustrates the key concepts, patterns, and approaches related to Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing (CQRS & ES), and a written guide to accompany the code, provide explanations, context, and references to other relevant material. As Grigori notes in his blog, they have...( read more ) Read More...
The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website running on Drupal. Hosting it on Azure provides a scalable, public cloud environment for SAG team. They can tune up or down the compute and storage requirements according to expected website loads, thereby getting a more scalable, manageable and cost-effective...( read more ) Read More...
As you know, educational institutions across the globe face the challenge of trying to meet accelerating technology demands with limited budgets. That is why I am really pleased to report that, today, Moodlerooms has released an open source plug-in that integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle, the world's leading open source Learning Management System with 55 million users. With this integration, Moodlerooms will make the rich functionality of Live@edu directly accessible within the Moodle 2.0...( read more ) Read More...
You can find this week’s video here . This lesson covers ways to troubleshoot IIS FTP. When it works, it works well, but if you run into issues getting an FTP account working it can sometimes be difficult to resolve. This video will help you understand Read More......( read more ) Read More...
A lot of times I come across people who can read the IIS logs but cannot understand the meaning of the status codes mentioned. As always, they resort to a search engine to find out the meaning. Had some free time so I cooked up this little IIS 7 UI module that tells you the status code and its corresponding meaning. The setup for now is manual but I will work on a setup utility in a future release. Hope you find it useful. Please do leave your feedback, suggestions and comments as always. Installation...( read more ) Read More...
You can find this week’s video here . Have you ever wondered what FTP Active mode or Passive mode means? Do you have a good understanding of the FTP data channel or control channel? It can be difficult to fully understand FTP, which firewall ports to Read More......( read more ) Read More...
If you have an ASP.NET application running on IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 that is experiencing intermittent delays, you have three powerful troubleshooting tools at your disposal that you might not have known about: FREB , Perfecto , and PerfView . 1) IIS Failed Request Tracing ( FREB ) 2) Jose Reyes’ ASP.NET Perfecto tool 3) Microsoft’s PerfView tool 1) Failed Request Tracing Failed Request Tracing (sometimes called “FREB” from its formerly unwieldy name of “Failed Request Event Buffering”) gives you a lot of control over defining exactly which requests to IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 you want to consider “failed” -- and have only those requests traced. For example, if you expect your application to respond within a second or two but it’s taking longer, you could set FREB to trace requests when it takes 4 or 5 seconds to respond. FREB produces a log file in .xml format that shows events and notifications from the modules that processed the request during its lifecycle, which is really helpful. Here are some...
Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand. The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb). This can make troubleshooting difficult when you don’t receive immediate access Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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