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Resolving Blocked Ports Through Windows Firewall-Week 40

You can find this week’s video here . This week's video shows how to easily and quickly track down IPs and ports that need to be opened to allow legitimate traffic through the firewall. Part of being a web server administrator is keeping your firewalls Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Introduction to Log Parser-Week 39

You can find this week’s video here . Log Parser is a powerful tool that every web administrator should become familiar with. With Log Parser we can do deep troubleshooting and data mining of the IIS Logs, Event Viewer, the File System, other file types Read More......( read more ) Read More...

IIS 7.0/7.5’s Hidden Tool. Run-time page request performance data-Week 21

Black box troubleshooting is very difficult.  What I mean by that, is that if you can’t see what’s happening, it’s extra difficult to troubleshoot.  For us administrators, or developers needing to troubleshooting something on a live server, Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Process Monitor Made Easy-Week 20

Every trade has their favorite tool, whether it be a hammer, calculator, or stethoscope.  For me, one of my top tools is Process Monitor.  I use it like a handy man uses duct tape.  With it I can easily troubleshoot access denied errors Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Wordpress Theme Upload error on IIS 7: AppPoolIdentity, FastCGI Impersonation and What not?

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IIS Solution Center and More

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...

Troubleshooting: .Net 2.0 Setup requires .Net 4.0 Runtime

I recently came across this problem when I was attempting to create a setup project for one of my applications... I say attempting because I am not a developer but I like to amuse myself sometimes with some code here and there... So I have Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 installed on my Windows 7 which by the way ROCKS! I created the application.. I created the setup project ... fixed some minor issues and there... cleaned some code... and finally the build succeeds... and I have the application with me...( read more ) Read More...

Exchange CAS Server running on IIS 7.0 – Spell Check Error

Following is the environment with exchange OWA setup in FE/BE. E2k3 - BE Cluster E2k3 - FE Server E2k7 - CAS server (Windows 2008 - IIS 7.0) Problem: ======= OWA spell check works fine when OWA is accessed on the BE server and via the E2k3-FE server. The OWA spell check fails only via E2k7 (Windows 2008 - IIS 7.0) CAS server and the OWA users get following error message while running Spell Check " The spelling in this item can't be checked. Try again later " Troubleshooting: ============== Verified configurations on FE and BE server for IIS - looks good. From IIS logs on E2k7 IIS7.0 CAS Server, IIS logs shows “404.8” as status code. Here is how the entry in IIS logs looks like: W3SVC1 POST /exchweb/bin/spell/owaspell.dll - 443  404 8 0 1430 814 0 Created a sample page like time.asp and browsed that - http://servername/exchweb/bin/spell/time.asp Sample page also fails with 404.8 status code. Resolution: ========= On IIS7.0 (CAS Server) look at ApplicationHost.config. Take...

Use Process Monitor to filter w3wp processes, capture user property (w/pictures) article

Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp/ Hope this helps, Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS...( read more ) Read More...

Error connecting to SQL Server from Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 with ASP.NET

Just ran into this and thought I’d share.  If you are trying to connect to SQL Server from your Web application running on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and you’re getting a message that looks like this: Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's local application data path. Please make sure the user has a local user profile on the computer. The connection will be closed. I can probably help you out.  The IIS team made a change to the default identity of the worker process.   Starting with IIS 7.5, Application Pools run with a unique identity based on the Application Pool name, rather than NetworkService – the default identity for IIS6 and IIS7.  The primary reason for this change is to increase the security of IIS and Application Pools by default, providing a much better sandbox between Applications and other Windows services by default.  Unfortunately, the new identity does not have a user profile, and as you...