Oct 07, 2009
Just ran into this and thought I’d share. If you are trying to connect to a "user instance" of SQL Server from your Web application running on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and you’re getting a message that looks like this: Failed to generate a user...
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Tags: ASP.NETTroubleshootingDevelopersAdministratorsIIS7.5SQL Server
Feb 20, 2009
Back in May of 2007 I posted a tips for Classic ASP developers post which has since received more than 50 comments and 85,000 views. Robert McMurray just posted a set of fabulous tutorials for Classic ASP developers. If you’re out there and...
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Nov 20, 2008
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...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETExtensibilityAdministrationTroubleshootingIIS News ItemDevelopersPerformanceVideosMediaAdministratorsConfigurationSecurityDeployment
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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Tags: IIS7AdministrationTroubleshootingDevelopersAdministratorsConfiguration
Nov 13, 2007
Remote Administration and Delegation in IIS7 In this screencast, we configure our IIS7 server for remote administration and delegation. The remote administration service in IIS7 is a new and powerful feature that allows us to connect securely to our remote...
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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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Tags: IIS7ExtensibilitySamples & DemosTroubleshootingIIS News ItemDevelopersPerformance
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...
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