MVolo's Blog : Tools

Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:25:00 GMT

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......(read more)

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

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:20:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Improved PortCheck 2.0 to diagnose IIS service connectivity problems

mvolo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:16:00 GMT

Due to demand for the original PortCheck tool, I decided to release the updated version that I myself have been using that has a few more features to help diagnose connectivity issues.

Download the tool, source code, and find out more about diagnosing IIS connectivity issues at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/01/23/Check-IIS-network-connectivity-with-PortCheck-v2.0.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

IISSCHEMA.EXE - A tool to register IIS7 configuration sections

mvolo — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:53:00 GMT

IIS7 configuration extensibility allows you to create custom configuration sections that can be used side by side the IIS configuration sections. However, setting this up requires a few steps that may be difficult to accomplish, especially in a automated way from a script or an installer.

This post describes the IIS7 configuration extensibility, the steps to create and register your custom configuration sections, and provides a downloadable tool you can use to simplify and automate this process.

Read all about it and download IISSCHEMA.EXE here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/04/IISSCHEMA.EXE-_2D00_-A-tool-to-register-IIS7-configuration-sections.aspx.

WCAT 6.3 web performance and scalability test tool released

mvolo — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:05:00 GMT

The NT Performance team just publically released the latest version of WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool), the web performance test tool that the IIS team and NT Performance team use to conduct internal performance and scalability testing of IIS and ASP.NET.