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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...

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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...

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Feb 01, 2013

Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 isn’t as hard as you might think. At least it isn’t as hard as I thought! Server Core can be intimidating to long-time Windows users who expect to see the comfortable familiarity...

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Jan 31, 2013

For this installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at BitKinex 3 , which is an FTP client from Barad-Dur, LLC . For this blog I used BitKinex 3.2.3, and it is available from the following URL: http://www...

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Jan 31, 2013

I was recently creating a new authentication provider using FTP extensibility, and I ran into a weird behavior that I had seen before. With that in mind, I thought my situation would make a great blog subject because someone else...

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Jan 30, 2013

The need to diagnose and troubleshoot application’s failures often comes up during deployment to a hosting environment. Some configuration settings in hosting server may differ from what application expects. Often it is not as...

Jan 30, 2013

Configuring and using FTP with IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 is very easy and straight forward. If you ever used FTP 7 that was released with Windows 2008 then the GUI will be familiar to you. An FTP virtual directory is quite...

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Jan 30, 2013

Some time ago I was running a few tests in my lab environment against a current version of MySQL. A few months later I needed to access it again but I forgot my root password so I wanted to start from scratch. Easy enough, right...

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Jan 30, 2013

Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft’s ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service , Microsoft’s cloud...

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Jan 29, 2013

Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. I’m a big fan and have written often about it. I had someone ask me this week about WebDAV support for ARR. With his ARR setup...

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Jan 28, 2013

OK, so maybe it was a shorter break from blogging than I expected. As it turns out the world does not stop when I change jobs. ;) The media world today is abuzz with news of H.265/HEVC approval by the ITU . In case you’ve...

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Jan 28, 2013

I've been involved with open source software for just shy of 15 years now. During that time I've seen open source software become a fundamental part of technology innovation. It is that technology innovation that has fed me and...

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