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  • Troubleshooting IIS - friendly reinterpretation of HTTP Status Codes and Win32 errors.

    Recently I investigated an IIS issue. As part of my investigation I had to analyze W3 logs. While doing so, I realized that IIS 7.0 introduced so many sub-status codes  that I was not able to reinterpret them in my head any more. Luckily, I recalled that logparser had an ability to perform variety of transformations.  So I gave it a try. Below is a query that made my life easier. Some of you may find it similarly useful.