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Web Deployment Tool released to web (RTW)
The final release of the Web Deployment Tool (aka Web Deploy or MsDeploy) has been released to the web.  This is likely more significant than many people realize.  At first glance, Web Deploy seems like a tool for system administrators to copy...
Posted: Oct 08 2009, 09:12 PM by OWScott | with 7 comment(s)
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Understanding Reverse Proxy Servers – and the Mailman
Ok, the goal isn’t to learn about the mailman, but he’s going to come in handy later. Proxy servers have been around since the early days of computing and they play a large role on the web today: sometimes obvious, sometimes not. They can be used for...
Posted: Aug 08 2009, 12:46 PM by OWScott | with 4 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2010 1-Click Publishing
When it comes to deploying websites, many developers and companies have unique and creative ways to handle deployment.  While some have fully workable solutions, I believe that there is a lot of room for growth to bring powerful and straight forward...
Visual Studio 2010 1-Click Publish Hosting at ORCS Web
With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 released and available as a free download, we at ORCS Web have joined with Microsoft to provide a free testing account so that you can see for yourself how the Publish feature works for remote publishing. As of...
Posted: Jun 01 2009, 01:13 PM by OWScott | with 2 comment(s)
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IIS 7 Compression. Good? Bad? How much?
If you haven't properly utilized compression in IIS, you're missing out on a lot! Compression is a trade-off of CPU for Bandwidth. With the expense of bandwidth and relative abundance of CPU, it's an easy trade-off. Yet, are you sure that your server...
Posted: Feb 22 2009, 12:45 PM by OWScott | with 33 comment(s)
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New IIS 7 Configuration Reference
Whether programmer or administrator, we're always looking for details on certain ASP.NET or IIS configuration settings, and sometimes we come up wanting because of lack of good documentation. The IIS team released an impressive IIS 7 reference a couple...
Posted: Jan 22 2009, 05:50 AM by OWScott | with 3 comment(s)
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Web Farms - How to tell which node is being served
I work with web farms on a daily basis, and one of the requirements that I run into, for testing, troubleshooting and logging, is to tell which node is handling a specific request. To use a current example, at ORCS Web , we're testing Microsoft's new...
Posted: Jan 18 2009, 06:48 AM by OWScott | with 8 comment(s)
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IIS, Windows Authentication and the Double Hop issue
In IIS, you run into an interesting situation when you need to access another resource off of the IIS server and certain fairly common situations occur. When using Integrated Security, anonymous access is disabled, and impersonation is turned on, a security...
Posted: Aug 22 2008, 01:33 PM by OWScott | with 4 comment(s)
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Application Pool Recycles from IIS 7 Setting Changes
I've written a couple times about what configuration changes cause AppDomain recycles. Most recently how the ASP.NET tab causes a server-wide AppDomain recycle , and previously about changes in ASP.NET 2.0 . Here I'm going to cover things that, when done...
Posted: Aug 11 2008, 07:37 AM by OWScott | with 2 comment(s)
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ASP.NET tab in IIS, more dangerous than it first appears!
This blog post was a long time coming and fortunately doesn't apply to IIS7, but I thought I would finally take a few minutes and cover this shortcoming with the ASPNET tab that ASP.NET 2.0 introduced into IIS 6 and IIS 5. As I've covered in a previous...
Posted: Aug 01 2008, 07:49 AM by OWScott | with 5 comment(s)
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