Jun 09, 2009
Today somebody was running the IIS SEO Toolkit and using the Site Analysis feature flagged a lot of violations about "The page contains multiple canonical formats.". The reason apparently is that he uses Query String parameters to pass contextual...
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Tags: IISIIS ManagerSEO
Jun 08, 2009
One easy way to enhance the experience of users visiting your Web site by increasing the perceived performance of navigating in your site is to reduce the number of HTTP requests that are required to display a page. There are several techniques for achieving...
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Tags: IISIIS ManagerSEO
Jun 03, 2009
Today we are releasing the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit . The IIS SEO Toolkit is a set of features that aim to help you keep your Web site and its content in good shape for both Users and Search Engines. The features that are included in this...
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Tags: IISIIS News ItemIIS ManagerSEO
Feb 13, 2009
While using IIS Manager, did you ever wondered what configuration section is this UI changing? Is there a way I could automate this using scripts or command line? Well, if you use IIS Manager 7.0 you might have noticed that we have a link in every page...
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Nov 14, 2008
During this PDC I attended Ian's presentation about WPF and Silverlight where he demonstrated the high degree of compatibility that can be achieved between a WPF desktop application and a Silverlight application. One of the differences that he demonstrated...
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Tags: IIS
Nov 10, 2008
Introduction IIS 7 provides a rich extensibility model, whether extending the server or the user interface, one critical thing is provide a simple setup application that can install all the required files, add any registration information required, and...
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Tags: IISIIS ManagerMicrosoft.Web.Administration
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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Tags: IIS.NETIIS 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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Tags: IISIIS 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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Tags: 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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Tags: 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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Tags: 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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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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Tags: 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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