Aug 30, 2006
Can one recycle an application from a script in IIS 6.0? We (MS) certainly improved our story around ensuring reliablity and performance with the release of IIS 6.0. IIS 6.0 has had numerous positive comments around the process archictecture and also...
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Aug 29, 2006
Microsoft added “auditing” for the IIS Configuration file Metabase.xml It was a service pack release hence it doesn’t have the flare of the RTM release and hence often features get missed. I have been attending a lot of conferences the past few weeks...
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Aug 22, 2006
The most valuable friend to an IT Professional or Developer who uses IIS is a little-bitty check-mark field that is not enabled by default. This field is the red-headed stepchild of logging but one that plays so many friendly tunes for you to determine...
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Aug 21, 2006
Last year, I did a presentation in the IIS Webcast Series called “ Disaster Recovery and IIS 6.0: Metabase backups in a Nutshell. ” The main reason I put that webcast together is to ensure that customers had prescriptive guidance on the “what” &...
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Aug 18, 2006
Script this, or script that...That is the latest buzz in my world. This could be because I scripted this & that in my some webcasts to demonstrate how to do some cool things with certain administrative tasks in IIS. If you are are up and running on...
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Aug 15, 2006
We recently was asked the following question: I am sort of new to editing the metabase in IIS 6.0, I am currently experiencing an issue with my default documents. I have added two files (index.html, index.php) to the defaultdoc attribute by selecting...
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Aug 14, 2006
As I continue my series of discussions around what is new in Service Pack 1 for IIS users, I want to touch on a pretty cool feature that many large installations of IIS 6.0 can take advantage almost immediately. HTTP.sys, the kernel driver responsible...
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Aug 09, 2006
With the fireworks blasting, and lawns a watering, I sit here admiring all the simple things in life. Learning IIS isn't one of them.... It is called Internet Information Services. I have spent the past 4 years concentrating my life on trying to understand...
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Aug 05, 2006
Wade Hilmo called it courageous, I called it useful ... Last week I delivered a presentation on CGI vs ISAPI and I “learned while on the job” ...In front of a webcast audience of about 50 people, I was showing what the capabilities of ISAPI filters are...
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Aug 02, 2006
I recently received from a customer the following question: Hi Chris, I am trying to debug a problem I had this morning with IIS 6.0 Basically it was dynamically adding an IP address to the list of blocked IP addresses. This IP address was actually our...
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