Archives
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IIS URL Rewrite – Redirect multiple domain names to one
Consider this a 2nd part to IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www. Reader Rubens asked about redirecting multiple domain names in a single rule. That’s a good question and worth writing a part II blog post about it.
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IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www
If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using.
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The SID Myth
Note: Ignore everything below. Others have said and I've confirmed first-hand that unique SIDs are required. You cannot clone machines with the same SID and join them to a domain controller that was also created from the same base clone. They must be re-SIDed. Since the NewSID utility isn't officially available or supported anymore, sysprep is required to give it a new SID.
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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.
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Hyper-V – getting host information from the guest VM
Sometimes it’s necessary to find out host machine information from a particular guest virtual machine.
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Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 7
Keyboard shortcuts can be huge time savers, so I’ve been pleased to see the many additional shortcuts and mouse movements supported with Windows 7.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS Issues
I recently upgraded my home Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller to R2. The upgrade process itself wasn’t too much work but was a bit more than ‘next, next, finish’ because the AD schema needed to be updated and the installer required that WSUS be uninstalled first. But, those weren’t a big deal.
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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.
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Creating WinPE with Integration Services for Hyper-V
At ORCS Web, we’re using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and have it set to deploy new images to physical or virtual hardware.
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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 publishing tools to the masses and to support mature publishing methods for simple and complex sites alike.
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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.
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Shared Desktop on Vista and Windows Server 2008
Sometimes I want to place a shortcut or file on the desktop of a server and want all users of the server to see it. By default, if you save a file or folders to the desktop, it is placed on only your desktop.
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Conquering Outlook 2007 Performance Issues
Outlook is one of those programs that's easy to have a love-hate relationship with. It offers so much, but the earlier versions have been plagued with stability and performance issues.
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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 is tuned optimally? I wasn't, which is why I finally sat down to find out for sure. I'll share the findings here.
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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.
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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.
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Two computer guys and a treehouse
I don’t tend to blog too much about myself personally, but I thought I would break my mold and start off the new year with an exciting non-technical project I worked on over Christmas. This will hopefully kick off a year of more consistent blogging since I’ve been pretty quiet the last year.