So I would like to hear from you guys.  I am getting ready to start working a lot on creating some debugging videos (I have already created one and just have to clean it up a little).  But it got me thinking that I would would to hear how you...

As promised in Chris Knowlton's Blog , we have an updated document that compares digital media content delivery from Windows Media servers (running Windows Media Services 2008) and Web servers (running IIS 7.0). You can find it here .

So I was looking around CodePlex the other day and I came across some really useful tools up there that I thought I would share.  Not all of these will apply to everyone, but they can be really useful things and I would recommend you to check them...

After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. Looking back, I can say that my experience at Microsoft has been truly amazing...

There are two ways to gather data in a Deadlock situation.  If you are using Windows 2003 or later (IIS 6.0 or later), then follow the steps in the KB 828222 If you are using an older version of IIS, then follow the steps below: Before the issue...

Today we have released the IIS7 Administration Pack and Database Manager Customer Technical Preview 2.  This is a collection of IIS 7 Manager plug-ins and extensions which we hope that you will find useful. So, what's special about Technical Preview...

Today the Web Deployment Team released the Beta 1 version of the deployment tool! If you're not familiar with the tool already, it is here to help you keep sites or servers in sync with IIS6 or IIS7, as well as migrate from IIS6 to IIS7. One of the key...

This blogs explains how to configure debugger such that worker processes launch under debugger in Windows Server 2008. Step 1: Install Debugging tools for windows from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx . This will install ntsd...

Today we are releasing the Technical Preview 2 of the IIS Admin Pack, it is an update of the release we made on February. Install the Admin Pack and Database Manager today! Admin Pack (x86): http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1682&g=6 Database Manager (x86): http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1684 Admin Pack (x64): http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1683&g=6 Database Manager (x64): http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1685 New Features: There are a lot of interesting features we've added to almost every component for this release: Database Manager Specify your own Connections . We heard during TP1 that it was a very important feature...

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able to step into the .NET Source from within Visual Studio...

Many Microsoft folks use an internal alias to discuss their IIS issues. Each week plenty of interesting topics come up. I will try to pick the most interesting topics and blog them regularly. I was a bit late this week, but nonetheless here is Edition...

I know I'm in a very old world of writing ISAPI Filters to do the redirection instead of just creating an IHttpModule and plug it directly in the IIS7 request pipeline. But, one of my customer wanted this ISAPI filter and I made a fairly simple ISAPI...

When debugging, some of you may have noticed that looking at a managed callstack looks a little different then a native one.  One of the big differences is that you don't see the parameters that are passed to the function.  So what can we do...

As promised in my first blog, I am writing about stress testing IIS in this blog. The idea behind IIS stress testing is to bombard the server with multiple simultaneous requests of different kind so that the CPU usage goes to 100%. This helps detecting...

Hello, A year ago I setup my account on IIS.net so that I could write blog and answer questions from IIS customers on forums. But the main focus at that time was to ship Windows Server 2008 and then the focus switched to shipping IIS out of band modules...