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ASP.NET and IIS Performance Troubleshooting Tools: FREB, Perfecto, and PerfView

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:08:00 GMT

If you have an ASP.NET application running on IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 that is experiencing intermittent delays, you have three powerful troubleshooting tools at your disposal that you might not have known about: FREB , Perfecto , and PerfView . 1) IIS Failed Request Tracing ( FREB ) 2) Jose Reyes’ ASP.NET Perfecto tool 3) Microsoft’s PerfView tool 1) Failed Request Tracing Failed Request Tracing (sometimes called “FREB” from its formerly unwieldy name of “Failed Request Event Buffering”) gives you a lot of control over defining exactly which requests to IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 you want to consider “failed” -- and have only those requests traced. For example, if you expect your application to respond within a second or two but it’s taking longer, you could set FREB to trace requests when it takes 4 or 5 seconds to respond. FREB produces a log file in .xml format that shows events and notifications from the modules that processed the request during its lifecycle, which is really helpful. Here are some...(read more)

Flush IIS HTTP and FTP Logs to Disk

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:11:13 GMT

Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand. The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb). This can make troubleshooting difficult when you don’t receive immediate access Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Using URL Rewrite to Insert Different Scripts Based on Browser Type

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:14:11 GMT

I just stumbled across a piece of sample code that I had written several months ago for a coworker, and I thought that I'd share it with everyone. Here's the scenario: my coworker asked me if it was possible to have different client-side scripts inserted dynamically depending on the type of web browser that is being used. If the application was written in ASP.NET or some other dynamic language, then it would be trivial to determine the browser type and return the correct HTML <script> block...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 2 - Using Gradient Colors for Area Charts

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:30:46 GMT

In Part 2 of this series, I'll show you how to customize the area chart from Part 1 to show the chart area with a gradient. More specifically, there are three different chart gradient methods that we'll take a look at in this blog post: SetOneColorGradient SetTwoColorGradient SetPresetGradient Before I continue, there is one quick Log Parser convention that you should realize: there are two objects that Log Parser will create and pass to your script. As you look at the sample scripts in this post...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 1 - Working With Configuration Scripts

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:13:52 GMT

I recently had a situation where I wanted to customize the chart output from Log Parser, and after a bunch of research I eventually arrived at the conclusion that configuration scripts for create customized charts are probably the least-documented feature of Log Parser. After a lot of experimentation, (and a bit of frustration), I finally managed to achieve the results that I wanted. With that in mind, I thought that it would make a great blog series if I documented some of the settings that I used...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Joomla! 2.5 Adds SQL Server Support!

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:00 GMT

This is a short post to shareexciting news: Jooma! 2.5, which shipped earlier this week, now has support for SQL Server! Of course, this release contains lots more goodies, but the addition of a database abstraction layer that supports multiple databases is a huge step (support for other databases may arrive quickly now that Joomla! ison a 6-month ship cycle). This will remove headaches for anyone deploying Joomla! in multiplatform environments. You can read all about the release on the Joomla! Web...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Recommended Listening–Clint Huffman on RunAs Radio

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:34:19 GMT

This week’s RunAs Radio has Clint Huffman , a Microsoft Premier Field Engieer talking to Richard Campbell about understanding the health state of IIS7/7.5. There is some excellent content in this episode and I’d strongly recommend listning to it. Clint covers aspects such as mappings, caching, failed request tracing and the IIS Log Analyzer. Rather than tell you everything that is in the podcast, listen now! - http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=248 RunAs Radio is an excellent weekly...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Microsoft at Node Summit

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT

We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week. Among those Microsoft staffers on site are Server & Tools Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie - who participated on a panel about Platform as a Service this morning and also gave a keynote address - and Gianugo Rabellino , the Senior Director for Open Source Communities, who was on a panel discussing the importance of cross-platform. You can read more about Scott's keynote on the Windows Azure blog...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

IIS FTP User Isolation-Week 46

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:34:37 GMT

You can find this week’s video here . I’ve been looking forward to releasing this week’s video. IIS FTP User isolation is an interesting topic because it offers a lot of power and flexibility but it’s not very intuitive because of how it’s managed Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Smooth Streaming to XBox and Beyond

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:17:54 GMT

Last month, Microsoft announced the new TV platform for XBox and a long list of content providers that will be bringing their TV and premium content onto XBox. For more detailed information, please check the press release here and here . As someone from the IIS Media Services team where Smooth Streaming technology was born, I’m proud to announce that the majority of Xbox Live content providers are using Smooth Streaming as their video streaming technology. Also all content partners who are delivering protected premium Smooth Streaming video are using PlayReady DRM for their content protection. Our team not only provided Smooth Streaming server platform (IIS Media Services) but also delivered Smooth Streaming Client SDK to our partners to build their XBox applications upon. Combining the power of XBox platform with the wealth of TV and premium content is going to be a huge win for both consumers and content providers. After a few years of evolution, Smooth Streaming now goes far beyond the...(read more)

Tips & Tricks: DebugDiag 1.2

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:32:37 GMT

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to have a very small hand in the birth of DebugDiag. In version 1.0, I got to do some work on the analysis scripts, as well as work on one of the debugger extensions it uses for analysis. As a result of the time I spent working on it, it’s still one of my favorite troubleshooting tools. Since the original release of the tool, the team who owns it has done some great things with it, which I’m sure included fixing and/or replacing my hacky code. I freely admit that...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Getting AWStats installed and configured on IIS 7.5

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:31:24 GMT

One of things I’ve wanted to evaluate is AWStats for doing analytics on a variety of sites I run. AWStats ( www.awstats.org ) is a free Open Source (Perl based) package. One of the things I couldn't find that covered the steps to get IIS 7.5 up and running. I’m still working on a few config items within AWStats, which if you have suggestions, please let me know. Here is the order of what I did to get my server up and running. I’ll assume you have a Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 server with IIS Installed...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Windows Azure Libraries for Java Available, including support for Service Bus

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:35:00 GMT

Good news for all you Java developers out there: I am happy to share with you the availability of Windows Azure libraries for Java that provide Java-based access to the functionality exposed via the REST API in Windows Azure Service Bus . You can download the Windows Azure libraries for Java from GitHub. This is an early step as we continue to make Windows Azure a great cloud platform for many languages, including .NET and Java. If you’re using Windows Azure Service Bus from Java, please let...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Redirecting Non-www to Domain Equivalent

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:19 GMT

A question came up on a blog post of mine on how to redirect a domain name that doesn’t have www in it while retaining the original domain name. Basically, to have a generic redirect to add on a www if it’s not already there. For example, how could Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users-Week 45

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:27:49 GMT

You can find this week’s video here . IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. They are useful if you want to manage a number of FTP users but don’t Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)