Jun 16, 2009
Many things can cause a service, like IIS’s World Wide Web Publishing Service, to fail on startup. When troubleshooting such an issue, Process Monitor can be an invaluable tool. What Process Monitor does is monitor all File and Registry access on the...
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Tags: IISIIS6securityLoggingTools
Apr 28, 2009
This topic has been covered many times both by Microsoft and non-Microsoft employees. However, I’ve recently been asked what the main features of IIS 7 are and have seen a great deal of misinformation about IIS security on twitter, blog posts and forums...
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Tags: PerformanceIIS 7InstallationApplication PoolsIIS 5.1IIS 6IISconfigurationLoggingURL RewriterSecurity
Mar 20, 2009
We announced and release a Beta for a sparkling new Logging module for IIS at MIX 09. This is a super rich logging module with a lot of functionality that our team will continue to blog about. Today, I wanted to share more technical details on how my...
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Tags: MediaAdvanced LoggingLoggingReal-time Logging
Mar 18, 2009
So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com . There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related...
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Tags: loggingAACSmooth StreamingSmoothHD.comSilverlight 3MPEG-4GPUH.264betaRaw AVIISsilverlight
Dec 12, 2008
This is my 1st blog post on IIS 7.0. Application Logging Apart from the standard IIS logs type, other items can be logged. Many of these options can be set in UI using the IIS Manager or by using Appcmd.exe - IIS command line administration Tool. Application...
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Tags: IIS7.0TroubleshootingLogging
Nov 18, 2008
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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Tags: LoggingIISLogParser
Oct 03, 2008
For those of you that remember that far back, I released a sample that also filled a need for Windows Vista. Since the original version of Windows Vista did not ship with a user interface for managing logging, and we needed samples of how to build UI...
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Tags: IIS 7SDKUI Moduleextensibilityvistaiis 7.0Logging
Apr 16, 2008
If you select Log File format as “Custom” in the IIS manager, it doesn’t give you options to configure ODBC logging in the UI. Instead, it just gives you an alert saying it cannot be configured through IIS manager which you already know...
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Tags: IIS7Logging