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I was just asked to help someone troubleshoot a site that worked fine on Windows Server 2003 / IIS6 but didn't work on Windows Server 2008 / IIS7. A file was in a folder under the bin folder on the site and displayed an error when trying to view the page...
The title is a bit biased since I co-authored the book, but Professional IIS 7 will be out in print within a couple weeks and I highly recommend picking up a copy! I've had my head buried in this book for months — spending more time that I realized possible...
There are many times when it is worthwhile to create a custom machineKey for your web.config file. This is worthwhile on a webfarm but also worthwhile on a stand-alone server so that your machineKey remains the same after an iisreset or application pool...
IISCnfg.vbs - IIS Settings Replication Microsoft provides a tool called IISCnfg for management of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Settings. One of the features that this includes is the ability to replicate the IIS settings from one server to...
Windows Distributed File System (DFS) has been around for a long time and it has always had a lot to offer. With the latest update in Windows Server 2003 R2, DFS has become quite an impressive product. At ORCS Web, we've recently started to use DFS...
Starting in the first version of ASP.NET, Microsoft has provided a tool to control which version of the framework is registered in IIS. This tool, aspnet_regiis.exe, is quite flexible and with the right understanding of how IIS and ASP.NET work, can be...
Like any good technology, ASP.NET continues to evolve as new versions are released. But, like anything else, this brings with it a number of considerations. Microsoft has done a great job of allowing multiple versions of the framework to run side by side...
Occasionally I need to explain how to find the SiteID / Site Identifier in IIS5 and/or IIS6 so I thought I would quickly blog on how to do that so that I have a page that I can reference rather than typing it out each time. When running various scripts...
Along with Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Services 6.0 came a large number of benefits. For us IIS admins, it was a great welcome set of changes. But, one apparent difficultly is matching up the w3wp.exe processes displayed in Task Manager...
This is a follow-up to my last blog on IIS6 Compression: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2004/01/12/57916.aspx Chris Neppes from Port80 Software gave me the URL to a white paper the covers not just compression but code optimization* and cache control...
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