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I have flowers... should I get a Web Garden?

“ We would like to use Web Gardens for load-balancing and we want to know the caveats to using this feature?” “ We have a application that CANNOT go down so we were thinking of using Web Gardens to ensure the application doesn’t fail. Will this ensure...

Log Parser: The coolest tool Microsoft has ever Released!

Introduction Log Parser 2.x is, in my skewed perspective, the coolest tool Microsoft has ever released. It easily ranks up there with the tools that Winternals\Systernals release (like Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer, etc.) The tool is a basic swiss...

Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) & IIS 6.0 - Part I & II Webcast

In the past 2 weeks, I delivered a 2–part series on the usefulness, downsides of SCW, and overall usage of the tool. In part I, I discussed more details on how the tool works from installation to the creation of policies as well as applying those...

IIS 5.1 Authentication After Install

IIS 5.1 Authentication After Install I recently got emailed a question about where to begin troubleshooting a problem relating to IIS 5.1. IIS 5.1 shipped as part of Windows XP Professional and is very similar to the Windows 2000 Professional release...

Managing IIS 6 in an Enterprise: A Handful of Tips & Tricks...

Introduction Today, Wednesday afternoon in Zurich & early AM back home (i.e. Seattle), I delivered this topic of managing IIS 6.0 in an Enterprise. This is the 2nd time I delivered this talk as I did it on Monday in Milan, Italy though I took it a...

This Live from TechEd thing...

As is typical fashion for me, I want to take a brief opportunity to square up a few details I find ultimately important to share with you, our customer. The past few days has given me the unique opportunity to learn a few lessons in public speaking —...

Launch: No Better Feeling...

On the Road Since November of '05, I have had one focus and that was the building of this brand-new website called www.iis.net . This was a personal challenge because it was one of the few times that I had to depend heavily on several people to push it...

Dirty of Advanced Digest - Ouch!

A week or so ago, I got a mail that said: “Chris, do you know that much about Advanced Digest?” I told this person, sure, what would you like to know... Today I sit in judgement for speaking prior to “thinking”, which is a problem I often struggle with...

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Chris Adams is a former Program Manager on the IIS team at Microsoft. He was in charge of running the IIS.NET portal, the MVP community, and delivery of educational training to customers in the form of webcasts, live presentations, and other venues. He is also the architect of the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit, a consolidated suite of tools aimed at helping customers solve their primary troubleshooting issues, and was the lead for the SSLDiag, AuthDiag, and TraceDiag tools.

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