Scott Hanselman's Blog : IIS

These are the little bugs that lead to madness

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:27:28 GMT

I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some trouble...(read more)

Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog)

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:07:59 GMT

It's so fun to help "announce" things, especially things that are a long time coming and that a lot of people worked on to make things "just work." (You can follow them on Twitter @mswebplatform .) This is one of those fantastic things...(read more)

UrlScan and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:44:33 GMT

In an ongoing series on different reasons that I suck, I wanted to share another interesting quasi-debugging story about this public ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) service I'm trying to help get live at a large company. I'd mentioned how I had some trouble...(read more)

RTFLF - Read the Expletive Log File

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:28:33 GMT

A buddy of mine and I had a nice slap in the face yesterday. I was helping him deploy an ADO.NET Data Service to a large company's staging server and we were seeing REALLY odd behavior. We'd request something like /myservice.svc and get a 404. But...(read more)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:10:53 GMT

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)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:45:16 GMT

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)

ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 Rewrite Module

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:23:08 GMT

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)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:29:40 GMT

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)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:53:36 GMT

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)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:49:47 GMT

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)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:41:07 GMT

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)

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:02:14 GMT

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)

Squeezing the most out of IIS7 Media Bit Rate Throttling

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:24:02 GMT

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)

MS Deploy - New IIS Web Deployment Tool

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:03:50 GMT

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)

Screencast HowTo: IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - IIS — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:27:21 GMT

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)