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One of my customers had a problem on his IIS server, where the IIS process hosting his web application was suffering from very high memory utilization over time. Eventually the process got so high in memory that the web application became completely unresponsive and incoming requests were no longer getting served. Based on these details, we began troubleshooting the issue as a memory leak/high memory issue. The first step was to capture a memory dump of the problematic process, when its memory usage...( read more ) Read More...
Last week I posted the following blog which showed how to use Process Monitor to troubleshoot service startup issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/06/16/troubleshooting-service-startup-issues-with-process-monitor.aspx To continue on that topic, I ran across another issue recently where Process Monitor was again very helpful in troubleshooting. Problem – When browsing ASP pages, we were getting below error in the browser. Browsing any HTML page worked fine. HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized...( read more ) Read More...
Many things can cause a service, like IIS’s World Wide Web Publishing Service, to fail on startup. When troubleshooting such an issue, Process Monitor can be an invaluable tool. What Process Monitor does is monitor all File and Registry access on the system in real-time. The latest version of process monitor can be obtained here . Most of the time, we use this tool to troubleshoot Access Denied related issues. In those scenarios, Process Monitor shows exactly what user account tried to access what...( read more ) Read More...
Today is a BIG day for the Microsoft Web Platform and a BIG day for the WEB. I’m down in Las Vegas at MIX and I just got off stage from the keynote where I demo’d just one of the many exciting and cool new things that make the Microsoft Web Platform better than ever. For example: Using the new Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta , you can now download and install all of the technologies that make up the Microsoft Web Platform, and some of the world’s most popular Web applications, in one simple tool. With the new Windows Web App Gallery , you can now discover world-class ASP.NET and PHP applications, read reviews from the community, and submit your own comments, as well as launch installation of an application in one click right from the browser. With IIS Media Services , a free addition to the IIS7 Web server, you can now provide high definition audio and video streams LIVE and on demand. With the final release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 , you can now build applications in...
It's so fun to help "announce" things, especially things that are a long time coming and that a lot of people worked on to make things "just work." (You can follow them on Twitter @mswebplatform .) This is one of those fantastic things Read More......( read more ) Read More...
I'm not yet clear what I did, but I'm blogging it so it can be found if someone else has this issue. For whatever reason, last week both of my Vista 64-bit machines suddenly stopped being able to start IIS (Internet Information Server). The service just Read More......( read more ) Read More...
Yesterday, we released the new Microsoft Web Application Installer, or Web AI, at www.microsoft.com/web . This tool for IIS7 allows you to simply install and get running with some of the most popular PHP and ASP.NET open source and community applications. In case you missed it, we also released another tool on www.microsoft.com/web a few weeks ago: the Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Think of this, as Bill Staples put it , as "a one stop shop for downloading and installing the Microsoft Web Stack including IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Visual Web Developer, all of the current IIS Extensions and more!" The IIS Media Pack features are among the IIS Extensions available in Web PI. If you use this tool, you will always get the latest production-ready versions of the IIS media features. Here's the quickest way to find and install the IIS media features, using Web PI in five steps: Launch Web PI: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9588072 Click on Run when prompted After a moment, when...
There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster . I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smallestdotnet and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find Read More......( read more ) Read More...
My blog was down a few days ago. I've had downtime in the minutes over the last few years, but as far as I recall, it's never been down for any significant time. Keyvan noticed that a bunch of us were attacked. Phil Haack was also, ahem, haacked. I host Read More......( read more ) Read More...
When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line...( read more ) Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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