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I have about 6 GB of audio collection saved under folder ("Songs") on my machine. I never felt it practical to sync my entire collection, however, every now and then I would miss listening to a song I hadn't synced yet ... so I had to find a solution to this problem... The answer to the above question is fairly simple - I used IIS 3 things I am using for this setup to work are: My laptop, Windows Phone 7 Device and a wireless router. The laptop and HTC HD 7 are using the linksys router for obtaining...( read more ) Read More...
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...
The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) and the Web Deployment Tool (Web Deploy) UI in inetmgr both provide a way for packages to support offering multiple data storage options (such as a choice between SQL and MySQL) in the same package. Package creators can use parameter tagging to access this functionality, which is then surfaced to the end-user as a drop-down choice. WebPI drop-down looks like this: What tags do I use? The current list of data storage options are: SQL Database, MySQL Database, SQLite, VistaDB, and Flat File. Each tag corresponds to a data storage option as noted in the following table for what will appear in the Web Deploy UI: Tag Drop-down option shown Sql SQL Database MySql MySQL Database SQLite SQLite VistaDB VistaDB FlatFile Flat File No Database Note that the “No Database” option will be shown if you use more than 1 database type. How does it work? You may already be familiar with using parameters to customize your application packages. If this idea is new to you, this...
Apparently a lot of people including me regularly search for support articles related to IIS for solutions. Today with no real work on hand I decided to save a few IIS related articles so that I can have a database at a central location. When I visited the Microsoft Support Solution center for IIS, I realised that a great location was already available with all the information. Solution Center as the name suggest is a central repository of not just the support articles but also a lot of great "How...( read more ) Read More...
"Can you tell me as to how ASP.NET MVC is processed in IIS?" I came across this interesting question from a member of my audience when I was giving a session for Community Techdays a few days back. I am not much of an ASP.NET developer therefore as much as I would hate to I had to say "Let me get back to you later on that". So here's what I have figured out so far: ASP.Net MVC or ASP.Net M odel V iew C ontroller was introduced with .Net 3.5. The basic difference between an ASP.Net application and...( read more ) Read More...
Outlining how the Web Deployment Tool works for remote management using Inetmgr and what has changed between the v1.0 RTW release and the recent v1.1 “refresh” release. What is “code download”? IIS7 (and up) allows you to remotely connect to a server using the IIS Manager (inetmgr) UI and administer it remotely. Sometimes you won’t have all the same components installed on the client box you are using as the server box you are connecting to – code download gives you the opportunity to download client binaries so that you can remotely administer server extensions, even if you don’t have the extensions installed on the client. Code download is a built-in feature in Windows Management Service (WMSvc). When you connect remotely (through WMSvc) to the server, your local inetmgr UI will show you what client binaries are available (i.e. features that support code download and do not exist on the client already) in a “New Features Available” dialog. Does Web Deploy support Code Download? Depends...
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