Mar 24, 2008
Won's recent post on possible configuration corruption caused by OneCare/Forefront reminded me of something that every IIS7 customer should know about: how to backup and restore IIS7 configuration! No matter whether your configuration file gets corrupted...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Troubleshooting, Developers, Administrators, Configuration
Sep 10, 2007
A few months ago the IIS team did a quick tour of Europe, speaking in various cities and countries in an all-day IIS conference specifically geared toward training people on IIS7. Luckily, the good people of Poland decided to record and publish the training...
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Filed under: IIS7, Extensibility, Samples & Demos, Troubleshooting, IIS News Item, Developers, Performance
Sep 04, 2007
I've seen this issue pop up a few times so I thought I'd share a few quick tips / tricks to getting SQL Server 2005 to work on Vista. If you see an error saying "Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled.", but...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Troubleshooting
Aug 28, 2007
I ran across this and thought I'd share in case anyone out there hits the same issue. If you see this error pop up in the IIS7 Administration tool (IIS Manager - inetmgr.exe) that looks like this: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception...
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Filed under: IIS7, Troubleshooting
May 25, 2007
I've seen several posts asking the question: how do I turn off the "verify file exists" setting on handlers / script maps in IIS7. I must admit, this seems to not be as straightforward as it should be. Hopefully this post helps you out. The configuration...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, Administration, Troubleshooting, ASP
May 21, 2007
I was reminded the other day just how many classic ASP applications and developers there are out there! The original ASP rocks, I remember experiencing it for the first time back in 1996/97 when it first came out with IIS3, and being amazed at how programmable...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Troubleshooting, IIS News Item, ASP
Oct 19, 2006
Another one of my favorite features is the IIS7 Detailed Errors feature. Thomas wrote a great article titled Understanding Custom and Detailed Errors which provides a good overview of this simple, yet powerful feature. (though it needs to be updated for...
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Filed under: IIS7, Troubleshooting
Oct 19, 2006
One of my favorite IIS7 features is something we call "FREB", which originally stood for "Failed Request Event Buffering". We've given it a more friedly name now: 'failed request tracing', but everyone around here still calls it freb. It is a really awesome...
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Filed under: IIS7, Troubleshooting