April 2012 Archive on Scott Forsyth's Blog

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Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?
Apr 06, 2013

Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. I’ve always been a bit curious where that default came from. If you’re like...

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Using WebDAV with ARR
Jan 29, 2013

Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. I’m a big fan and have written often about it. I had someone ask me this week about WebDAV support for ARR. With his ARR setup...

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Handing MVC paths with dots in the path
Jan 16, 2013

A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project.  The path looked something like this: http://domain.com/aspnet/CLR4.0 The MVC routes didn’t work for this path and...

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Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit
Nov 13, 2012

IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed. However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Windows 8, does have a concurrent...

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URL Rewrite – Protocol (http/https) in the Action
Nov 07, 2012

IIS URL Rewrite supports server variables for pretty much every part of the URL and http header. However, there is one commonly used server variable that isn’t readily available.  That’s the protocol—HTTP or HTTPS. You can...

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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me
May 14, 2012

Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it!  localtest.me ( http://localtest.me ) and *.localtest.me ( http://something.localtest.me ) If you do any testing on your local...

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Google and Geo-location, CNDs, DNS Load Balancing-Week 50
Apr 19, 2012

You can find this week’s video here . This week answers two Q&A questions from viewers. DNS Load Balancing and then some discussion and a walkthrough using Application Request Routing (ARR) for a Content Delivery Network ...

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What’s new in IIS8, Perf, Indexing Service-Week 49
Mar 27, 2012

You can find this week’s video here . After some delays in the publishing process week 49 is finally live.  This week I'm taking Q&A from viewers, starting with what's new in IIS8, a question on enable32BitAppOnWin64...

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What’s New in IIS 8
Mar 01, 2012

With the beta release of Windows Server 8 today, Internet Information server (IIS) 8 is available to the public for testing and even production workload testing.  Many system administrators have been anxious to kick the tires...

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IIS FTP Troubleshooting-Week 48
Feb 21, 2012

You can find this week’s video here . This lesson covers ways to troubleshoot IIS FTP. When it works, it works well, but if you run into issues getting an FTP account working it can sometimes be difficult to resolve. This video...

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FTP Firewall Settings, Active vs. Passive, and FTPS Explicit vs. Implicit-Week 47
Feb 13, 2012

You can find this week’s video here . Have you ever wondered what FTP Active mode or Passive mode means? Do you have a good understanding of the FTP data channel or control channel? It can be difficult to fully understand FTP...

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Flush IIS HTTP and FTP Logs to Disk
Feb 03, 2012

Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand.  The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb).  This can make troubleshooting difficult when you don...

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