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Troubleshooting performance counter problems with perfmon and a debugger

May 24, 2009

Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code...

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Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles

May 11, 2009

When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these features involve using...

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Analyzing server power consumption and costs

Feb 01, 2009

For many data centers, the cost of powering servers has become a top budget item. The first step to reducing power costs lies in understanding the power characteristics of your server equipment and workloads. We started with a simple power meter and a...

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IIS 7.0 Url Rewriter gotchas when importing mod_rewrite rules

Dec 07, 2008

One of the best things to happen to IIS 7.0 recently is the release of Url Rewriter , the IIS 7.0 url rewriting equivalent to Apache's mod_rewrite. To ease the process of migrating Apache apps (notably PHP applications that rely on mod_rewrite rules...

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IIS 7.0 Forms Authentication and Embedded Media Players

Nov 16, 2008

One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content...

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When to restart IIS when making changes to your application

Sep 12, 2008

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance...

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Leverage the Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

Aug 02, 2008

IIS 7.0 improves on the already solid performance of its predecessor in quite a few places. But the real power lies in the new capabilities IIS 7.0 provides that can significantly improve performance, scalability, and reduce operational costs of running...

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Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing

Aug 01, 2008

When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line...( read more ) Read More...

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Make your next IIS 7.0 web server a lean one

Jun 17, 2008

Among IT circles, IIS 7.0’s modularity is definitely one of its most welcomed traits. It promises a significantly reduced surface area, lightweight management overhead, and better performance. Ever wonder how far you can go with modularizing IIS 7.0?...

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Connecting to IIS 7.0 configuration remotely with Microsoft.Web.Administration

May 26, 2008

IIS 7.0 provides a number of APIs that you can use to manage configuration remotely. This post provides the info and tools you need to configure remote access to IIS 7.0 configuration, including for use on Server Core installations....( read more ) Read...

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Leaving Microsoft ...

May 14, 2008

After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. Looking back, I can say that my experience at Microsoft has been truly amazing...

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The IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book

May 01, 2008

The IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book is out! Coming straight from yours truly, the IIS 7.0 team, and some of our best MVPs, this book has all the conceptual background and details you'll need to understand the principles behind the web server platform, and take...

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IconHandler 2.0: file icons in your ASP.NET applications

Apr 26, 2008

Since its release, IconHandler has been a pretty popular module (on its own and with the custom DirectoryListingModule ). Today, I am releasing v2.0 of IconHandler, which contains some much-requested functionality and fixes a few issues that people have...

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Creating portable ASP.NET applications that work on IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 Classic, and IIS 7.0 Integrated modes

Apr 15, 2008

ASP.NET applications in IIS 7.0 Integrated mode requires configuration changes if they define custom modules or handlers. However, it is still possible to create portable ASP.NET applications that can function in all three environments without configuration...

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Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

Apr 04, 2008

A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas I've blogged about in the past in one place. Now, you can find the same information for...

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I am a Program Manager on the IIS Application Server team. I own IIS7 server core, and the ASP.NET runtime - I was originally the ASP.NET runtime PM during ASP.NET 2.0 days. In my (spare?) time, I also develop AppCmd, the unified IIS7 command line tool, and work on other "special" projects. To read more about the stuff the team/I do, check out my blog at http://www.mvolo.com.

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