Apr 16, 2008
If you haven't heard, the new Web SKU is a special, low-priced version of Windows that is focused exclusively on Internet-based Web serving. We've added a lot of new features and support for hardware compared to the old Windows 2003 Web edition. For more...
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Filed under: SQL Server, IIS
Mar 22, 2008
On IIS 6.0, there are no mime types for Silverlight by default (IIS6 was released a good deal prior to Silverlight and as with any type of content, you need to configure your web server to support it)... so you might experience that your app appears to...
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Filed under: IIS, Silverlight
Mar 22, 2008
There are two settings you should be aware of for hosting that relate to delegation of errors. 1. Delegating ASP's scriptErrorSentToBrowser setting: You should definitely turn on the ASP script errors, otherwise your customers won't see the useful errors...
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Filed under: IIS, asp, errors
Jan 23, 2008
Hey everyone, long time since the last blog post but we're still here and we have some great news to report. The IIS team just released the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool on www.iis.net . It is a command-line tool that provides support for deploying, synchronizing...
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Filed under: Latest Technical News, IIS, Windows Server 2008
Oct 03, 2007
Microsoft has just announced the Go Live release of its FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 (FastCGI Extension). This FastCGI Extension release is supported on IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 for a fully scalable production environment and IIS 5.1 on Windows...
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Filed under: IIS, PHP
Aug 06, 2007
If you're hosting the .NET Framework 3.5 (Beta 2) or planning on it, keep in mind there is some additional work required for the Beta 2 bits. The attached document describes two issues (and their corresponding workarounds) when hosting ASP.NET websites...
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Filed under: Tips and Tricks, Latest Technical News, ASP.NET, LINQ, .NET
May 28, 2007
We're releasing a draft version of our shared hosting guidance for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. Currently it covers mainly IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0, but we will be adding more content for other components. Highlights for shared hosting on IIS 7.0 covered...
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Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS, Windows Server 2008
Apr 26, 2007
The IIS team has announced that Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" Server Beta 3 has reached a high level of quality and is ready for your testing. You can test awesome new hosting features in IIS 7 and roll it out for beta hosting. Find out...
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Filed under: Latest Technical News, IIS, Community News
Apr 25, 2007
One thing you can do to help save memory usage is to enable the WorkstationGC. The GC, or garbage collector, manages the memory for appDomains. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911716
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Filed under: Tips and Tricks, ASP.NET, IIS
Mar 21, 2007
Yesterday was the second day at the Hosting Summit. There are folks from around the world here. We started off with great keynotes from Michael O'Hara and John Zanni, and of course, a hilarious spoof of <a href=" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...
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Filed under: IIS, Hosting Summit
Feb 20, 2007
Just sharing a nice little script to query all the computers in an OU and change the local Administrator password for each one. One thing to note, if your computers happen to be in the default Computers container, you need to change the LDAP query from...
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Filed under: Tips and Tricks, IIS, Windows Server
Feb 15, 2007
If you are pointing your W3SVC log files to a location that is incorrect or goes offline, especially if it is a remote UNC share like \\server\logs – your requests on IIS 6 could be slower. The reason is that HTTP.sys wants to write an entry for...
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Filed under: IIS, Troubleshooting
Feb 13, 2007
An update from Robert about FPSE: "Because Microsoft realizes that the FrontPage Server Extensions are essential to many web hosting companies, the Internet Information Services product team is researching the development of an updated version of...
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Filed under: Latest Technical News, IIS, FPSE
Feb 12, 2007
When running on x64 hardware, you have two options. First, to run in native 64-bit mode. This means all the applications running need to be 64-bit. The second is to run worker processes in 32-bit mode, which means all applications need to be 32-bit. This...
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Filed under: Tips and Tricks, IIS, x64
Feb 09, 2007
The new SharePoint templates have arrived. To provide a complete solution, especially for small businesses, SharePoint v3 offers these pre-packaged templates. Each one solves a business problem and offers not only a fully functioning site out of the box...
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Filed under: Latest Technical News, SharePoint, Community News, IIS News Item