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IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www

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...

Web Deployment Tool released to web (RTW)

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...

Understanding Reverse Proxy Servers – and the Mailman

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...

IIS 7 Compression. Good? Bad? How much?

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...

Web Farms - How to tell which node is being served

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...

Application Pool Recycles from IIS 7 Setting Changes

I've written a couple times about what configuration changes cause AppDomain recycles. Most recently how the ASP.NET tab causes a server-wide AppDomain recycle , and previously about changes in ASP.NET 2.0 . Here I'm going to cover things that, when done...

IIS7 blocks viewing access to files in bin and other asp.net folders

I was just asked to help someone troubleshoot a site that worked fine on Windows Server 2003 / IIS6 but didn't work on Windows Server 2008 / IIS7. A file was in a folder under the bin folder on the site and displayed an error when trying to view the page...

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