Scott Hanselman's Blog

Web Platform Installer now supports XP - And the Master Plan continues

2008-11-24T20:10:53Z

Remind me to tell you some time why the IIS team is so evil clever. It' cool to see the first steps of a master plan to make things awesome start to come to fruition. I've said over and over that IIS7 is rocking sweet and once you start using it Read More......(read more)

Fixed: "Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) is stopping because it encountered an error."

2008-11-12T08:45:16Z

I'm not yet clear what I did, but I'm blogging it so it can be found if someone else has this issue. For whatever reason, last week both of my Vista 64-bit machines suddenly stopped being able to start IIS (Internet Information Server). The service just Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 Rewrite Module

2008-10-10T09:23:08Z

Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up . Fast forward to this year and Read More......(read more)

Web Platform Installer: Trying to make it easier to setup for web development

2008-10-03T21:29:40Z

There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster . I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smallestdotnet and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find Read More......(read more)

Hacked! And I didn't like it - URLScan is Step Zero

2008-08-11T22:53:36Z

My blog was down a few days ago. I've had downtime in the minutes over the last few years, but as far as I recall, it's never been down for any significant time. Keyvan noticed that a bunch of us were attacked. Phil Haack was also, ahem, haacked. I host Read More......(read more)

New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing - Proxy and Load Balancing Module

2008-07-15T23:49:47Z

I really like the IIS7 team at Microsoft. They're cool people, but the what I like is that IIS7 is so freaking modular (I've talked about this at conferences before when showing how to use PHP and Ruby under IIS7 using FastCGI ) that the group keeps bringing Read More......(read more)

How to Programmatically tell if an IIS AppPool is 32-bit or 64-bit

2008-07-01T06:41:07Z

I've blogged before about 32-bit vs. 64-bit .NET under IIS and how different Framework-bitnesses need different Application Pools (AppPools). Someone asked how you find out what AppPools are on a machine and how do you find out which ones are 32-bit? Read More......(read more)

How to set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than 2.0

2008-04-01T19:02:14Z

A question that comes up a lot is this: How do I tell my IIS Application or Virtual Directory to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than ASP.NET 2.0? Folks often go into the IIS6 or IIS7 manager and setup an AppPool and see a properties dialog like this, and when Read More......(read more)

Squeezing the most out of IIS7 Media Bit Rate Throttling

2008-03-21T00:24:02Z

ScottGu blogged about the IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module being released. Since IIS 7.0 is totally modular (finally!) I think you'll see lots of increasingly useful modules coming out from the team. I know a couple of cool people over there so I get Read More......(read more)

MS Deploy - New IIS Web Deployment Tool

2008-02-02T08:03:50Z

Months ago, even before I started at Microsoft , I got to talk to some very nice people about a project they were calling AdminX . After I told them that that was very possibly the worst name they could possibly give it (and they took part that very well Read More......(read more)

Screencast HowTo: IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI

2007-10-24T00:27:21Z

Hello Dear Reader. I have been working with IIS7 for a while and I'm convinced that it's the cat's pajamas [1] I started playing with IIS7 and noticed that it had FastCGI support. This means I could plug in PHP or maybe Perl or even Ruby into IIS7. This Read More......(read more)

HTTP Error 404.17 - PHP on IIS7 under 64bit Vista

2007-10-17T04:27:58Z

If you're getting... "HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found - The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler." ...on Vista while trying to get PHP working under IIS7 with the standard ISAPI "php5isapi.dll" ask yourself Read More......(read more)