Nov 27, 2009
If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using. One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com. Many people are doing this for search engine optimization...
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Tags: IIS7IISURL Rewrite
Oct 09, 2009
The final release of the Web Deployment Tool (aka Web Deploy or MsDeploy) has been released to the web. This is likely more significant than many people realize. At first glance, Web Deploy seems like a tool for system administrators to copy...
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Tags: IIS7IIS
Aug 08, 2009
Ok, the goal isn’t to learn about the mailman, but he’s going to come in handy later. Proxy servers have been around since the early days of computing and they play a large role on the web today: sometimes obvious, sometimes not. They can be used...
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Tags: IIS7IIS
Jun 06, 2009
When it comes to deploying websites, many developers and companies have unique and creative ways to handle deployment. While some have fully workable solutions, I believe that there is a lot of room for growth to bring powerful and straight forward...
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Tags: IISASP.NETVisual Studio
Jun 01, 2009
With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 released and available as a free download, we at ORCS Web have joined with Microsoft to provide a free testing account so that you can see for yourself how the Publish feature works for remote publishing. As of...
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Tags: IISVisual Studio
Feb 22, 2009
If you haven't properly leveraged compression in IIS, you're missing out on a lot! Compression is a trade-off of CPU for Bandwidth. With the expense of bandwidth and relative abundance of CPU, it's an easy trade-off. Yet, are you sure that your server...
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Tags: IIS7IIS
Jan 22, 2009
Whether programmer or administrator, we're always looking for details on certain ASP.NET or IIS configuration settings, and sometimes we come up wanting because of lack of good documentation. The IIS team released an impressive IIS 7 reference a couple...
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Tags: IIS
Jan 18, 2009
I work with web farms on a daily basis, and one of the requirements that I run into, for testing, troubleshooting and logging, is to tell which node is handling a specific request. To use a current example, at ORCS Web , we're testing Microsoft's new...
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Tags: IIS7IISASP.NET