My posts tagged with "Troubleshooting, Administration"(RSS)

Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…

Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has.  I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos.  And with each new...

How to backup/restore IIS7 configuration

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...

Problems installing SQL Server 2005 on Vista and IIS7

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...

Tip / Trick: how to turn off "verify file exists" in IIS7

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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