All Blog Posts

Mar 13, 2013

Any time you can open up a platform to more options for interoperability, it’s a great thing. It’s even better if the platform is as popular as Apache Hadoop and the new option is one that has been accepted as a popular...

0 comments

Feb 28, 2013

In Part 6 of this series, I showed how to create a very basic COM-based input format provider for Log Parser. I wrote that blog post as a follow-up to an earlier blog post where I had written a more complex COM-based input format...

0 comments

Feb 28, 2013

For the latest news and happenings in the IIS community over the past month, be sure to check out the February edition of the IIS Community Newsletter! http://www.iisnewsletter.com/archive/february2013.html Make sure you don’t...

0 comments

Feb 27, 2013

In Part 4 of this series, I illustrated how to create a new COM-based input provider for Log Parser from a custom input format: Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 4 - Adding Custom Input Formats For the sample that I published in...

0 comments

Feb 19, 2013

ASP.NET Health Monitoring was one of the major features I worked on for the ASP.NET 2.0 release. Fast forward 8 years later, after releasing ASP.NET, IIS7. and building LeanSentry. This is the story of this feature, lessons learned...

0 comments

Feb 18, 2013

So you’ve written a new ASP.Net website, tested it locally in your development environment and you deploy it to your IIS server. Now you’re getting the dreaded 500 – Internal server error. What are you to do? As you may know,...

0 comments

Feb 18, 2013

Today Scott Guthrie blogged about new releases of Microsoft’s Web developer tools that reflect a snapshot of improvements and contributions from the open source community and Microsoft Open Technologies Hub (The Hub). The...

0 comments

Feb 11, 2013

It's been just one month since Microsoft Open Technologies announced the early preview of VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images. Today we are proud to announce that the community has rallied...

0 comments

Feb 09, 2013

How do you know if your website is running slowly? Using the common metric of Average Response Time turns out to be a terrible idea. These are the reasons why, and this is how we resolved this problem for LeanSentry ... Read More...

0 comments

Feb 08, 2013

In 2011 the FTP protocol had it’s 40 birthday. Despite it’s age it is still a widely used file transfer technology however it wasn’t originally designed for encryption. It has been shown to be vulnerable to brute force attacks...

0 comments

Feb 05, 2013

We've spent the last 5 years helping our clients build better websites on the Microsoft web platform. Eventually we got sick of logging into servers to debug IIS problems with appcmd, EventLog, windbg, and logparser. So we...

0 comments

Feb 02, 2013

Sometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the...

1 comments

« Previous  1 2 3 4 5  Next »  ... Last »

IIS Team Blogs