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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)

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)

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)

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)