Mar 16, 2012
Wow, just realized that in the last 6 months I’ve only had a chance to post 2 items and I think it is about time to start this going again. So why this much silence? Well, About 8 months ago a couple of big changes happened at my division as described...
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Tags: IISWindows Azure
Dec 13, 2011
By default in Windows Server 2008 when you are using the Web Management Service (WMSVC) and Web Deploy (also known as MSDeploy) it will use Basic authentication to perform your deployments. If you want to enable Windows Authentication you will need to...
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Tags: IISIIS Manager
Aug 19, 2011
This is the third post on the series: 1: Moving a SitemapPath Control to ASP.NET Web Pages 2: Use URL Rewrite to maintain your Page rankings (SEO) ASP.NET has a nice feature to help for deployment processes where you can drop an HTML file named...
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Tags: .NETASP.NET
Aug 13, 2011
This is the second note of the series: 1: Moving a SitemapPath Control to ASP.NET Web Pages My current Web Site was built using ASP.NET 2.0 and WebForms, that means that all of my pages have the extension .aspx. While moving each page to use ASP.NET Web...
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Tags: IISSEOASP.NET
Aug 07, 2011
After many years I decided that it is time to rewrite my Web site using Razor. A bit of history, I started it around 2003 using ASP.NET 1.1. When .NET 2.0 came around in 2005 I migrated to it and it was great being able to leverage features like MasterPages...
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Tags: .NETASP.NET
Jan 21, 2011
Today there was a question in StackOverflow asking whether it was possible to read the IIS binding information such as Port and Protocols from the ASP.NET application itself to try to handle redirects from HTTP to HTTPS in a way that was reliable without...
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Tags: IISMicrosoft.Web.Administration
Nov 02, 2010
Today somebody asked a question about how to manage some ASP.NET configuration settings such as changing the trust level of the application and adding a few application settings and changing compilation settings to debug. I thought it would be trivial...
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Tags: IIS.NETIIS Manager
Oct 12, 2010
The SEO Toolkit includes a set of features (like Robots Editor and Sitemap Editor) that only work when you are working with a local copy of your Web Site. The reason behind it is that we have to understand where we need to save the files that we need...
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Tags: IISIIS ManagerSEO
May 13, 2010
In my spare time I’ve been thinking about new ideas for the SEO Toolkit , and it occurred to me that rather than continuing trying to figure out more reports and better diagnostics against some random fake sites, that it could be interesting to ask openly...
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Tags: IISSEO
May 10, 2010
One thing that I’ve been asked several times about the SEO Toolkit is if it does a full standards validation on the markup and content that is processed, and if not, to add support for more comprehensive standards validation, in particular XHTML and HTML...
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Tags: IISIIS ManagerSEO
Apr 09, 2010
A couple of months ago I blogged about the release of the v1.0.1 of the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit . In March we released the localized versions of the SEO Toolkit so now it is available in 10 languages: English, Japanese, French, Russian...
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Tags: IISSEO
Apr 01, 2010
Today there was a question in the IIS.net Forums asking how to expose two different Internet sites from another site making them look like if they were subdirectories in the main site. So for example the goal was to have a site: www.site.com expose a...
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Tags: IISURL RewriteARR
Mar 31, 2010
A few weeks ago my team released the version 2.0 of the URL Rewrite for IIS . URL Rewrite is probably the most powerful Rewrite engine for Web Applications. It gives you many features including Inbound Rewriting (ie. Rewrite the URL, Redirect to another...
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Tags: IISSEOURL Rewrite
Mar 25, 2010
The other day I was asked if I knew about a tool that would allow users to easily analyze the IIS Log Files, to process and look for specific data that could easily be automated. My recommendation was that if they were comfortable with using a SQL-like...
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Tags: IIS
Feb 26, 2010
Are you an developer/owner/publisher/etc of a site that uses HTTPS (SSL) for secure access? If you are, please continue to read. Have you ever visited a Web site that is secured using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) just to get an ugly Security Warning message...
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Tags: IISSEO