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Getting Started with IIS7 & Longhorn Server Beta 3

chrisad — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IIS7: Gettin' Ready...Are you Ready?

chrisad — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:58:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Getting Virtual Server '05 R2 Working on IIS7 in Longhorn Server

chrisad — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tracing ASP.NET Provider on Windows Vista

chrisad — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Connection_Dropped in HTTP.sys Error Log - An Explanation

chrisad — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

An Insiders Look at IIS7 Features - Let's Chat

chrisad — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Lego Set & IIS7 - Componentization Rules!

chrisad — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Get the Facts on Windows Vista & IIS 7.0 Compatibility

chrisad — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Getting Started with IIS 7.0

chrisad — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:13:00 GMT

Introduction I recently delivered a webcast on Getting Started with IIS 7.0 aimed at educating newbies on IIS7 and bring them up to speed with what they have in front of them, and why it is so important that they do it! Reviewing the top reasons to upgrade...(read more)

IIS7 Deployments calls for ETag Usage Review if using

chrisad — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:16:00 GMT

Introduction Entity Tags (ETags) are commonly used in Web applications to effectively leverage the power of using web farms, which is a non-fancy term for HTTP/S load balancing. In web farms, a common practice is to set what is called ETags as it helps...(read more)

The sparkle of IISSuba...(oh, that is the IIS Sub Authenticator for those that don't know it)

chrisad — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42:00 GMT

IIS SubAuthentication - Magic? You bet it is... For many years, IIS administrators didn't have the first clue what the IIS sub-authenticator was more less how it worked. It wasn't until the security PM ( http://iisgeek.no-ip.com/ ) sat down and really...(read more)