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ADSUTIL.vbs – Copying a website by rakkimk

Copying a website (to another exact copy) Here is the command to copy a website(run from a cmd prompt – c:\inetpub\adminscripts): > cscript.exe adsutil.vbs copy <source> <destination> > cscript.exe adsutil.vbs copy w3svc/1 w3svc/556...
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LogParser – Useful Logparser scripts by rakkimk

Logparser is a powerful utility which comes handy for me whenever I’m helping my customers facing a problem with slow running pages, frequently hit pages, post mortem analysis to find what went wrong on IIS, et al. You can use Logparser to parse your...
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IIS7 – ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2 by rakkimk

If you are a Server Core fan, and wished you could host ASP.NET websites in Server Core, then feel better, you wish had come true. Windows Server 2008 R2’s Server Core will have .NET Framework which means, ASP.NET too. This is a big news for all those...
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PDC2008 – day 2 – Awesome Office, Windows 7, Live Services, etc by rakkimk

Office 14 will have an online version – which can work seamlessly with the desktop version This is the most important announcement which impressed me very much – Office Web Applications. Check more about this here . Embedded Video below: Windows 7 – an...
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Windows Azure – useful links by rakkimk

The world is excited about Windows Azure, and here are few useful links for the same. I’ll add more as they appear in the cloud. Windows Azure MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cc994380.aspx Azure Services Platform http://www.microsoft.com/azure...
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IIS7 – How to set up logging to a remote UNC share? by rakkimk

First of all, let me tell you that there isn’t much changes to the logging done to IIS 7.0 compared to IIS 6.0. Logging still happens through Http.Sys, and you can configure the logging directory (of FREB log directory) to be a UNC share. There are a...
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ASP.NET 2.0 x64 – You may get HTTP 400 Bad Request or Error as mentioned in KB 932552 or 826437 by rakkimk

I’m sure you already know about this fix for ASP.NET which fixes an issue of “not a valid path” exception, and this fix for ASP.NET 1.1 for the same reason. If you receive this error now on your application, you might not need to apply the hotfix because...
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Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta by rakkimk

If you are a web deployment guru, and looking to reduce your burden of downloading lot of software, configuring them and if you didn’t check Bills’ blog earlier, you better do check it right now. The new ‘Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta’ gives you...
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IIS7 – Enabling Custom Error Pages by rakkimk

As the title sounds, here I’m going to discuss a very simple feature of IIS7 which has one additional step to keep in mind compared to that you do in the previous versions of IIS (5, 5.1, 6). Let’s take an example of configuring a redirect for a page...
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AppCmd syntax to add FTP IpV4 Address and Domain Restrictions by rakkimk

I just helped one of my customer writing a script which would add FTP IpV4 Address and Domain Restrictions into the applicationHost.config file. “Configuration Editor” came handy to nail this command. I would say, anybody and everybody wanted to play...
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IIS – Rejecting a request from a specific client type(browser) | ISAPI Filter Example by rakkimk

Recently I’ve come across a discussion where a particular type of client request should be blocked. Say for an example, you need to block requests from a client called “TrustMe”; consider a scenario where you need to serve pages only for Internet Explorer...
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IIS7 – Adding your UI extension to the IIS manager hierarchy by rakkimk

In the last post I was talking about writing a simple UI extension which would appear like below: How about you adding this to the IIS manager hierarchy – just below “Application Pools” and “FTP Sites”? Here is what you need to do additional to the steps...
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IIS7 - Writing your first custom UI module with all winform controls by rakkimk

You should follow this article on IIS.net to create your first “simple” IIS7 UI extension which would just display a message box when loaded. In this blog, I’m going to explain you how you could design a UI module where you can add any UI control that...
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IIS7 – Prevent the server sending its private IP address for a request made by HTTP/1.0 clients with no host header by rakkimk

Do you remember this problem earlier with IIS sending the server’s private address for a request made for a non host-header site in its headers? You were setting UseHostName or SetHostName property in the metabase to stop the server sending the private...
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Getting "Unable to step. The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed" while debugging in Visual Studio by rakkimk

Problem Description Getting below error messages while debugging an ASP.NET website in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 when stepping through, getting "Unable to step. The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed" After clicking OK on the dialog...
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