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How To: Silverlight Tools Offline Installation

The first time I tried to install Silverlight Tools RTW I wasn't really prepared for what was coming - My silverlight tools installation had just failed. Had no idea as to why that had happened, but after some wandering around the subject I found out...

Microsoft Web Platform Installer RC now out!

Nutshell: Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a great tool to have. You may ask, Why? Well, for the readers who are not yet aware of Web PI, it installs and updates all of Microsoft's web platform packages from a single interface. With the release of...

How To: AppCMD in IIS 7 - An Introduction

AppCMD is the main command line utility for managing IIS 7 within Windows Vista and Windows Sever 2008...I have felt navigating through AppCMD is easier than ADSUTIL.vbs (its predecessor) but here's an entry nevertheless for the beginners. Below are a...

IIS 7 Feature Delegation

IIS 7 has come with some very cool features; be it the cool new UI, which has got the right information at the correct places or the integrated pipeline architecture of the core webserver itself of which I have spoken earlier .However, one feature that...

How To: StatusCheck

Just finished writing a very simple IIS 7 UI ModulePage that will enable us to view the meaning of the status and sub-status codes from within the IIS Manager UI. Here's a documentation to get you started. Just follow the document, there isn't much that...

How To:Import, Export Bookmarks in IE and Firefox

I have always had this bad habit of juggling around different browsers from time to time and one thing that I never even tried to do was to sync my bookmarks. Comes very handy when you read a lot on the net. Often I stop in the middle of a page and say...

IIS 6 and IIS 7 - How different are they?

This is something that I wanted to write from a long time now.Yesterday a friend of mine asked me exactly the same question and I thought what a better time than now to write an entry ... To start off lets begin by understanding the request pipeline that...

Web.config - What's new with IIS 7

Recently, I came across certain questions on web.config file and it's relation to . To be honest, if you are a web developer (using .Net atleast), understanding the web.config file is imperative to you. So lets take it from the basics. Definition of Web...

Application Pools in IIS 6

Hi, I recently came across this question on the IIS community newsgroup. This would be a great question to share, as the answer incorporated has fundamental points regarding IIS 6 Application Pool that will really help a beginner to start off: Question...

Troubleshooting: Exception Error Codes - What's the Mystery!

Very often as sysadmins we come across numbers that make no sense. Give the same to a debugger and he\she will make your life simpler and happier. Well I am a no different sysadmin! (well atleast that is what I would like to call myself) However, off...

How To: Using IIS 6.0 Command Line Utilities - Part 2

Continuing my last post on using Command line utilities with IIS 6.0 I will now be discussing on how to use some of those command which can make our life as an IIS admin happy! Lets start with adsutil.vbs Working with adsutil.vbs is fairly simple once...

How To: Using IIS 6.0 Command Line Utilities - Part 1

Q.) I would like to control a few operations of my IIS management through batch files. What I am looking at are simple tasks such as Restart IIS on development servers, viewing configuration and stuff like that. How can I possibly achieve that? I am pretty...

How to: Install PHP 5 on IIS 7 with FastCGI

While working today I came across my dumped and lost php applications, I use to work on long ago. The moment I saw them I knew I couldn't resist to see them working again. These php code happen to be some of the earliest piece of code I have written....

Troubleshooting: Could not start the IIS Admin Service on Local Computer

Q.) When I try to start the IIS Admin Service from services.msc I receive the following error: Could not start the IIS Admin Service on Local Computer Error2: The system cannot find the file specified. At the same time I can also see the following message...

Blog using Nokia N81

Hey ppl,.... It was just today that i found that my Nokia N81 along with the vodafone connection that I have is capable of delivering internet a great pace... You are gonna find this post as good as a sms coz I m not really fond of messaging... :-) Anyways...

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