May 04, 2007
Back when I lived in the real world , I remember tearing into Windows 2000 at beta milestones. This included running 2000 professional on my desktop as well as building, stealing, or whatever I had to do to test hardware for my beta 2000 servers. It was...
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Tags: IIS News ItemTAPLearn IIS7
Apr 23, 2007
For months, in fact years, the IIS team has found itself fighting an uphill battle with IIS7 and customers. It is a proven fact that you can build amazing technology with a bucket-full of wanted features but until it is "real" - it is mostly hot air....
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Tags: IIS News ItemIISNET_EnhanceIIS7
Apr 16, 2007
Introduction With some nifty work and helpful insight, you can get Virtual Server 2005 working on Windows Server Code-named "Longhorn" just as I did this past weekend. I took some time to also validate (i.e doc) what I was doing as to maybe help someone...
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Tags: IIS News ItemIIS7VirtualServer
Apr 10, 2007
Introduction As many of you know, Windows Vista ships with our all-new Web Platform IIS7. I recently got an email from a customer who was struggling with getting a Failed Request Tracing rule setup on IIS7 on Vista Ultimate and asked the following question...
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Tags: IIS News ItemIIS7VistaTraceProviders
Mar 10, 2007
A recent question came into my queue asking about the meaning of the Connection_Dropped log entry in the Http.sys error log (%windir%\system32\logfiles\httperr). This error message, by defination, is not clear to most users - The reason phrase indicates...
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Tags: IIS News ItemHTTP.sys IIS6
Mar 05, 2007
The 50,000 foot view often isn't what you are looking for especially when you can't see the topic and\or features in action. Instead, often you are only interested in seeing the functionality working and in action so that you can make sense out of it...
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Tags: IIS News ItemIIS7Webcasts
Mar 04, 2007
In a recent webcast, I talked about how nice it is to have a componentize Web server. It is more important for IT Professionals because nothing is more frustrating than having to patch, patch, and do more patching. When our server, hopefully soon after...
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Mar 02, 2007
For many, the first question asked when a new version of IIS is released - what is known not to work? In a recent webcast, I discussed what the known issues were for IIS 7.0 vs. IIS 6.0 and how to workaround. The functionality often still works but differently...
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