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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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, IIS, troubleshooting, development, AppCmd
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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Filed under: IIS7, IIS, performance
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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Filed under: IIS7, IIS, troubleshooting, AppCmd, Tools
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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Filed under: IIS7, IIS, performance
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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Filed under: IIS7, IIS, development, Tools, Configuration
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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Filed under: Other, IIS 7.0
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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Filed under: IIS7, IIS News Item
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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Filed under: ASP.NET, modules, IIS 7.0