Scott Forsyth's Blog

IIS, Windows Authentication and the Double Hop issue

Scott Forsyth's Blog : IIS — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:33:00 GMT

In IIS, you run into an interesting situation when you need to access another resource off of the IIS server and certain fairly common situations occur. When using Integrated Security, anonymous access is disabled, and impersonation is turned on, a security...(read more)

Application Pool Recycles from IIS 7 Setting Changes

Scott Forsyth's Blog : IIS — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

ASP.NET tab in IIS, more dangerous than it first appears!

Scott Forsyth's Blog : IIS — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:49:00 GMT

This blog post was a long time coming and fortunately doesn't apply to IIS7, but I thought I would finally take a few minutes and cover this shortcoming with the ASPNET tab that ASP.NET 2.0 introduced into IIS 6 and IIS 5. As I've covered in a previous...(read more)

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

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Professional IIS 7 - Best IIS 7.0 book

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:41:00 GMT

The title is a bit biased since I co-authored the book, but Professional IIS 7 will be out in print within a couple weeks and I highly recommend picking up a copy! I've had my head buried in this book for months — spending more time that I realized possible...(read more)

Tool: Creating a custom MachineKey in ASP.NET

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:24:00 GMT

There are many times when it is worthwhile to create a custom machineKey for your web.config file. This is worthwhile on a webfarm but also worthwhile on a stand-alone server so that your machineKey remains the same after an iisreset or application pool...(read more)

IISCnfg.vbs - IIS Settings Replication

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:14:00 GMT

IISCnfg.vbs - IIS Settings Replication Microsoft provides a tool called IISCnfg for management of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Settings. One of the features that this includes is the ability to replicate the IIS settings from one server to...(read more)

DFS for Webfarm Usage - Content Replication and Failover

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:59:00 GMT

Windows Distributed File System (DFS) has been around for a long time and it has always had a lot to offer. With the latest update in Windows Server 2003 R2, DFS has become quite an impressive product. At ORCS Web, we've recently started to use DFS...(read more)

ASPNET_regiis.exe Tool, Setting the Default Version Without Forcing an Upgrade on All Sites

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Wed, 31 May 2006 03:52:00 GMT

Starting in the first version of ASP.NET, Microsoft has provided a tool to control which version of the framework is registered in IIS. This tool, aspnet_regiis.exe, is quite flexible and with the right understanding of how IIS and ASP.NET work, can be...(read more)

Running multiple versions of the Framework in ASP.NET

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:59:00 GMT

Like any good technology, ASP.NET continues to evolve as new versions are released. But, like anything else, this brings with it a number of considerations. Microsoft has done a great job of allowing multiple versions of the framework to run side by side...(read more)

How to find the SiteID in IIS5 and IIS6

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:25:00 GMT

Occasionally I need to explain how to find the SiteID / Site Identifier in IIS5 and/or IIS6 so I thought I would quickly blog on how to do that so that I have a page that I can reference rather than typing it out each time. When running various scripts...(read more)

Which w3wp.exe process belongs to which App Pool in IIS6

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:16:00 GMT

Along with Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Services 6.0 came a large number of benefits. For us IIS admins, it was a great welcome set of changes. But, one apparent difficultly is matching up the w3wp.exe processes displayed in Task Manager...(read more)

IIS6 Compression Follow-up

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:20:00 GMT

This is a follow-up to my last blog on IIS6 Compression: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2004/01/12/57916.aspx Chris Neppes from Port80 Software gave me the URL to a white paper the covers not just compression but code optimization* and cache control...(read more)

IIS Compression in IIS6.0

Scott Forsyth's WebLog : IIS — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:49:00 GMT

Hold on to your hats folks. If you don't have compression installed on your web server, either IIS Compression or a 3rd party, and you have IIS6.0 and pay for bandwidth you're missing out on something good. In the day of IIS5 and earlier the compression...(read more)