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Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. I’ve always been a bit curious where that default came from. If you’re like me, you may have wondered...
Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. I’m a big fan and have written often about it. I had someone ask me this week about WebDAV support for ARR. With his ARR setup, he noted that WebDAV creation...
A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project. The path looked something like this: http://domain.com/aspnet/CLR4.0 The MVC routes didn’t work for this path and the standard IIS 404 handler...
IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed. However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Windows 8, does have a concurrent connection request limitation...
IIS URL Rewrite supports server variables for pretty much every part of the URL and http header. However, there is one commonly used server variable that isn’t readily available. That’s the protocol—HTTP or HTTPS. You can easily check if a page...
Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it! localtest.me ( http://localtest.me ) and *.localtest.me ( http://something.localtest.me ) If you do any testing on your local system you’ve probably...
You can find this week’s video here . This week I'm taking Q&A from viewers, starting with what's new in IIS8, a question on enable32BitAppOnWin64 , performance settings for asp.net, the ARR Helper, and Indexing Services. This week we look at five...
With the beta release of Windows Server 8 today, Internet Information server (IIS) 8 is available to the public for testing and even production workload testing. Many system administrators have been anxious to kick the tires and to find out which features...
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