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It’s a bit strange that my “back-to-blogging” post is about a new version of Remote Manager considering that my last post, way back in March 2008 was a Remote Manager post as well (I have a good reason for not blogging since then which you’ll see at the end of this post :-) What’s different? The new version has some internal changes but the major new feature is the ability to remotely manage IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 machines as well as Windows Server 2008 machines. Another additional is the ability to use the tool from Windows 7. Other then these changes everything is the same as before. How do I get it? Via Web PI: The IIS.NET download center: IIS Manager for Remote Administration (x86) IIS Manager for Remote Administration (x64) Microsoft.com download center: Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager What happened to Brian Delahunty’s Ramblings? So, the reason that I haven’t blogged since my last post on the original Remote Manager is pretty straight forward – I changed...
I recently updated the Web browser on my Windows Vista computer to Windows Internet Explorer 8 , and immediately discovered that I could no longer remotely administer my Windows Media server by using the updated Web browser. When I tried to open the Windows Media Services Web Administration site on the remote Windows Media server, IIS returned a Web page that incorrectly identified the Internet Explorer Web browser as a Netscape Web browser. This issue occurred because the Windows Media Services Web Administration site (which is hosted by IIS on the remote computer) could not determine the capabilities of my client Web browser. The site's Active Server Pages (ASP) use the BrowserType object in server-side scripts to compare the User-Agent HTTP Header with entries in the IIS browscap.ini file and determine Web Browser capabilities. Unfortunately, the browscap.ini file did not have an entry for Internet Explorer 8. If you host ASP pages in IIS that use server-side scripts to query browscap...
Web Playlists , an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, includes an Import ASX Playlist feature that you can use to create server-side playlist copies of your client-side Windows Media Player playlist files. For large playlists, this feature provides a good alternative to creating server-side playlist versions of client-side playlist files from the beginning, all while preserving the presentation order of the media entries that you worked so hard to put together in the Windows Media Player playlist. Windows Media Player 11 , the default Microsoft player on computers running Windows Server 2008 creates playlists with .wpl file name extensions. For the playlists that you have already created, it is easy to create ASX copies of your WPL playlist files and import them into the Web Playlists feature for a Web site or virtual directory. Web Playlists creates a copy of the imported ASX playlist file in ISX format, which is a file with a .isx file name extension. The ISX file requires further...
I recently encountered the error “The path is not of a legal form.” from the IIS 7.0 Manager, but was unable to find any documentation on the error. Oddly this error didn’t log anything in the System Event Log either. The error sounds like a config issue so I focused on web.config and applicationHost.config. Problem: When expanding a website in the IIS Manager we get the error below. This happens only for one specific web site, other sites are on the server are fine. Additionally the problematic site continues to serve out pages without error. The only real problem here is an inability to administer the web site. Error: Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager The path is not of a legal form. Screenshot: Cause: After inspecting applicationHost.config I noted that one application didn’t have a physical path specified. < application path = " /appdir " applicationPool = " DefaultAppPool " > ...
You can use the Web Playlists feature in IIS Media Pack 1.0 to serve media assets referenced in Web playlist files (files with .isx file name extensions), provided that the media assets (audio and video files) are stored in folders on the Web server computer that can be accessed by the Web Playlists feature. By default, these folders include the Web site root (< systemdrive >\inetpub\wwwroot). If you want to serve media assets stored in your user account folders (for example, music files stored in < systemdrive >\Users\< username >\Music>, you can create impersonation credentials in the Web Playlists feature to enable Web Playlists to connect to the media assets under the context of an authenticated Windows client. This allows you to maintain one set of media files that you can serve to customers, rather than creating copies of the files in the Web site root. This article describes how to create impersonation credentials in Web Playlists for your user account Music...
For those of you that remember that far back, I released a sample that also filled a need for Windows Vista. Since the original version of Windows Vista did not ship with a user interface for managing logging, and we needed samples of how to build UI modules available to the public, I released the Logging UI module. For some time, I've been hosting that downloadable release on my private web site ( tobint.com ). As I plan to make some major changes to my personal site over the next few months, I wanted to make sure the release was still reliably available. That said, I've now added the source code to CodePlex . You may find the project at http://www.codeplex.com/iis70loggingui . I have worked with our source asset management team and made this available under the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/iis70loggingui/license">MS-PL</a>. I hope that this makes the download reliably available. I'm looking forward to developing more samples that I will also be releasing...
Some time ago, I tried to start up the IIS Management Console on my Vista machine and I received an exception. After trying a few quick fixes, I gave up. I had several VPC images that I worked from and I didn't particularly need this machine to work when I had so many others. However, I've been doing a great deal of development on this machine now, and having IIS working is obviously rather handy. So, I tracked down the exception and solved my problem. I thought I'd go ahead and chronical my adventures for anyone else who is having this issue and needs help. So first of all, the error that was displayed when I started inetmgr was as follows: --------------------------- Failed to connect --------------------------- There was an error when trying to connect. Do you want to retype your credentials and try again? Details: Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {2B72133B-3F5B-4602-8952-803546CE3344} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000d...
As promised in Chris Knowlton's Blog , we have an updated document that compares digital media content delivery from Windows Media servers (running Windows Media Services 2008) and Web servers (running IIS 7.0). You can find it here . Read More...
After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. I’ve spent the past 4 years living and breathing IIS 7.0, from its inception, to the Vista release, and the final debut in Windows Server 2008. During most of this time, I was heads down in designing and driving the development of the product, with little opportunity to see the impact it will have in the outside world. Now that IIS 7.0 is ready, I feel it’s the right time to shift perspectives, and focus on leveraging it to make that impact. The more I learn about the problems customers solve in the wild, the more I realize how much work there still is to truly “unleash the potential” of the web server (thankfully, this is exactly what we wanted to enable through the end-to-end extensibility architecture of IIS 7.0). So, I will be leaving to help customers make the most of IIS 7.0, and start a few projects around web server performance, shared hosting...
Since its release, IconHandler has been a pretty popular module (on its own and with the custom DirectoryListingModule ). Today, I am releasing v2.0 of IconHandler, which contains some much-requested functionality and fixes a few issues that people have reported with the original version. Read all about it (and I mean all ) and download at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/04/27/IconHandler-2.0-File-icons-in-ASP.NET-applications.aspx . Thanks, Mike Read More...
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