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IIS – Getting “Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool DefaultAppPool” – File Version Mismatch by rakkimk

Today, I was working with a customer of mine who had some problems in configuring a Virus Definitions Distribution Point for Symantec Live Update on IIS. Another module hosted on a different web-server has a button to test this distribution point, and...
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IIS7 – To be noted while using Expression Encoder to upload large files to IIS server by rakkimk

Internet is full of videos, and you have a power packed set of tools for IIS to make media streaming top-notch experience. You have IIS Media Pack enabling intelligent progressive downloads, smooth streaming, throttling, etc. You have tools from Microsoft...
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IIS7 – Improving ASP.NET performance (concurrent requests) while on Integrated Mode by rakkimk

If you were a ASP.NET 1.1 developer, and faced some performance problems, I’m sure you would have come across the KB 821268 which talks about tweaking maxWorkerThreads, maxIoThreads in the <processModel>, minFreeThreads, minLocalRequestFreeThreads...
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IIS7 – Configuring iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication using appcmd by rakkimk

As you know there is no UI to configure iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication in IIS7, it takes a little more time to configure the site for the same. Here is an article in the iis.net site which explains the steps one by one…………… Read the rest of...
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URLScan – rejecting the request depending on the User-Agent string by rakkimk

I just learned this now :-) You can now use the URLScan 3.1 with your own custom rules, and it would come handy in situations like rejecting a request based on the User-Agent string. Below is a sample rule for the same:…………… Read rest of the blog here...
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IIS7 – (my) Improved Backup Restore Tool, and a UI Module by rakkimk

NOTE : Before you even read about this module, I want to mention that I do not work for IIS product team at Microsoft, but in Product Support for IIS and ASP.NET. This module/application is purely out of my interest, and this is not an official release...
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IIS7 - Getting HTTP 500.19 while accessing the website by rakkimk

I recently worked with one of my customer who was getting “HTTP 500.19” error while browsing the website. Server Error in Application " application name " HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error HRESULT: 0x8007000d Description of HRESULT The...
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IIS7 Tweet #2: Modifying an existing binding for the website by rakkimk

appcmd.exe set config  -section:system.applicationHost/sites /[name='Default Web Site'].bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='*:80:'].bindingInformation:"*:80:www.test.com"  /commit:apphost
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IIS7 Tweet #1 : Setting UploadReadAheadSize by rakkimk

appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/serverRuntime /uploadReadAheadSize:"49152" /commit:apphost
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Problems with rendering the "Design" View for a simple asp.net website from Visual Studio 2008 by rakkimk

I recently worked with one of my customer who when clicking on the "Design" view of an ASPX page, the designer window doesn't appear - blank page appears. And if you minimize the VS window, and maximize it again - we will see the desktop background...
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IIS7 – Search the complete IIS configuration store – in which web.config is your attribute configured by rakkimk

As you know IIS 7.0 configuration system is huge, broad, or whatever you feel like calling it. It no longer just exist in its main configuration file applicationHost.config (like Metabase.XML in IIS 6.0). It can be widely spread in any of the web.config...
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Configuring IIS to advise the browser render on different IE modes by rakkimk

You would have already read IIS support team’s blog about configuring IIS to send an additional header to the client which would make IE to run under EmulateIE7 mode. I would also suggest you to read this MSDN article which talks about the various IE8...
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IIS7 and Twitter – a love story by rakkimk

It is a while that I wrote something as crazy as this one is. This is basically a windows service running in your web server which would tweet often about the heart beat of the web server and posts its status messages. For example, v1.0 of this application...
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IIS7 – Viewing ISAPI Filters that are loaded inside the worker process by rakkimk

In IIS6 manager, you see a green arrow icon and a red icon against the ISAPI Filter’s list to indicate if the ISAPI Filter is loaded or not. That was possible because FilterStatus metabase key was updated after the ISAPI Filter is loaded inside the process...
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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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