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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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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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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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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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Breaking changing in IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET
This quick post is for my own sake so I can find it again later. :-) I refer to the following link often. Mike Volodarsky has put together a detailed list of breaking changes in IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET. For the most part IIS 7 has great compatibility with...
Posted: Jul 11 2008, 10:32 AM by OWScott | with no comments
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IIS7 blocks viewing access to files in bin and other asp.net folders
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...
Posted: Mar 05 2008, 01:31 PM by OWScott | with 2 comment(s)
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