Oct 02, 2008
Today we are releasing a new Web Site at http://www.microsoft.com/web/ where users can get a one stop shop for learning about the Microsoft Web Platform. This is part of a bigger effort to make it easier to get started with building and running Web Applications...
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Filed under: IIS, .NET, IIS News Item
Sep 25, 2008
Today in the IIS.NET Forums a question was asked if it was possible to use the same IIS Manager Users authentication in the context of a Web Application so that you could have say something like WebDAV using the same credentials as you use when using...
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Filed under: IIS, IIS Manager
Sep 10, 2008
AHADMIN is the COM API that IIS 7.0 uses for reading and writing its configuration system. One of the not so well known features is that you can also use the same API to manage Administration.config by calling the SetMetadata method and specifying that...
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Filed under: IIS
Sep 05, 2008
Every now and then after leaving my computer running for several weeks I would get a weird error message when trying to launch Excel saying something like: C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\Office12\EXCEL.EXE is not a valid Win32 application. or This file does not...
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Sep 02, 2008
In the past few days I've been reading a bit about SEO and trying to understand more about what makes a Web Site be SEO (Search-Engine-Optimized) and what are some of the typical headaches when trying to achieve that as well as how we can implement them...
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Filed under: IIS
Aug 26, 2008
In IIS 7.0 the configuration system has a nice feature that lets you extend it using what we sometimes refer as dynamic properties. This properties rather than being hard-coded in XML in some .config file they are implemented by COM interface that whenever...
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Filed under: IIS
Aug 21, 2008
Yesterday I was having a conversation with Anil Ruia who happens to be the ARR (Application Request Routing) developer and based on customer feedback we discussed the idea of using ARR in the context of Remote Management in IIS which solves a question...
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Filed under: IIS, IIS Manager
Aug 19, 2008
For the past month its been pretty quiet in my blog since I have been a little bit busy with the best thing that has happened in my life, my first baby Sofia was borne and today we are celebrating her first month. Days have been incredibly full of love...
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Filed under: Personal
Jul 08, 2008
One of the things I try to regularly do is to read blogs that are not necessarily pro-Microsoft and one of my favorite ones is Miguel de Icaza's blog. The other day I was reading one blog post that caught my attention about a blog he says he is a "fan...
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Jul 07, 2008
DiscountASP.net published a very nice video that shows how you can enable IIS Manager and Database Manager and other modules for their customers. If you don't use DiscountASP.net as your ISP at least its interesting to see how IIS 7.0 and its Remote Administration...
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Filed under: IIS, IIS Manager
Jul 04, 2008
IIS 7.0 Failed Request Tracing (for historical reasons internally we refer to it as FREB, since it used to be called Failed Request Event Buffering, and there are no "good-sounding-decent" acronyms for the new name) is probably the best diagnosing tool...
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Filed under: IIS, .NET
Jul 04, 2008
Today I read a question in one of the IIS.NET forums - although I'm not sure if this is what they really wanted to know - I figured it might be useful to understand how to do this anyway. Several times users does not like exposing their ASP.NET pages...
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Filed under: IIS
Jul 02, 2008
DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our platform - including IIS Manager Remote Delegated Access to the Web Site and many other cool tools - has just built and released yet another cool module...
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Filed under: IIS, IIS Manager
Jun 13, 2008
In my previous post I mentioned that IIS Manager (more specifically Microsoft.Web.Administration) has two algorithms for assigning a Site ID when no ID is specified. The two algorithms are: Incremental Site ID . When this algorithm is configured we will...
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Filed under: IIS, IIS Manager, Microsoft.Web.Administration
Jun 12, 2008
Yesterday I got an email about some performance numbers that one of our customers were running into when creating remotely Web Sites, Applications, Application Pools and other tasks in IIS using Microsoft.Web.Administration. In case you don't know Microsoft...
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Filed under: IIS, Microsoft.Web.Administration