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Powershell has become a defacto scripting environment for a lot of companies and rightly so considering its capabilities. However, not every place do we find all modules loaded into powershell as one would like for the ease of scripting. I faced a similiar situation wherein I wanted to perform few admin tasks on an IIS box and din't have the IIS powershell snap-in installed. Wish the server was Windows Server 2008 R2 (IIS module is out-of-the-box loaded). There are more than a couple ways which could...( read more ) Read More...
I have been meaning to blog for quite sometime now but work has got me all tied up. However, this is something I just couldn't let go. Robert McMurray yesterday blogged about the availability of the IIS Config Reference in the form of Compiled Help Files. This means you can now read and learn the entire IIS congifuration offline. IIS Config Reference is a store of all IIS configuration parameters with examples of accessing those parameters from command line, Java Scripts, VB Scipts and the IIS API...( read more ) Read More...
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A few days back I was having a conversation with an exchange admin on how exchange works with IIS and stuff like that when suddenly he said: "It's good that we can have IIS 7 on Windows Server 2003 now" and I went like HUH!!! After explaining him that there is no downgrade available for IIS and the changes from IIS 6 to IIS 7 and a lot more explaination it was starting to get frustating. The guy just kept on saying "But I have IIS 7 running on my Server 2003 machine". I had to finally convince him...( read more ) Read More...
I was going through some data on IIS webservers today and came across Netcraft , which is a website that gives monthly statistical data on webservers from different companies and some other interesting stuff. Not sure if this data can be taken official or not but what really excited me was the number of hostnames that were running on IIS. Microsoft Web Server has hit the BIG number of 50 Million hostnames from which Netcraft has recieved response . Now, yes, I know what you must be thinking. We all...( read more ) Read More...
I gave a session on IIS 7.5 for developers in the recently concluded Virtual Tech Days ... It was good to see the amount of participation and enthusiasm people had with every session being conducted. Virtual Tech Days is an online event where in every session is delivered on Live Meeting. These sessions are based on latest technology offerings from Microsoft, driven by various evangelists and product team members. Virtual Tech Days as the name suggests are completely technology driven and hence one...( read more ) Read More...
IIS is a demand-driven web server, i.e. IIS does things only when asked for. For example: an IIS worker process spawns up only when requests arrive for the sites that are hosted in this worker process. Without requests there isn't a worker process. This is great from a resource consumption point of view. Worker processes which don't run do not consume resources, memory in particular. There is a drawback to this architecture however. The first requests that get handled by a newly spawned worker process might have to wait longer due to the initialization costs of the web application(s) living within the worker process. Typical example of initialization activities are: Initialization of data structures Loading data from a datastore into memory (caching) Compilation of code, e.g. .NET applications Establishing database connections For big applications the initialization phase might take considerable time and IT administrators might not want their customers to pay the price...
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...
Looking at number of people reaching my first blog post while searching for information on IIS 7.5, I figured I should do few more posts on changes which are coming in IIS 7.5. In this blog post I am covering new features which have been added to compression and custom errors modules in IIS 7.5. Changes to custom errors 1. system.webServer/httpErrors section is made delegation safe In IIS 7.0, httpErrors section was not delegated by default which means custom errors were not available to site owners...( read more ) Read More...
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