Aug 18, 2009
One of my customers had a problem on his IIS server, where the IIS process hosting his web application was suffering from very high memory utilization over time. Eventually the process got so high in memory that the web application became completely unresponsive...
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Tags: High MemoryToolscapture dump
Jun 25, 2009
Last week I posted the following blog which showed how to use Process Monitor to troubleshoot service startup issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/06/16/troubleshooting-service-startup-issues-with-process-monitor.aspx To continue on that...
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Tags: IISHTTPIIS6securityToolsAccess DeniedAuthentication
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
Mar 18, 2009
Today is a BIG day for the Microsoft Web Platform and a BIG day for the WEB. I’m down in Las Vegas at MIX and I just got off stage from the keynote where I demo’d just one of the many exciting and cool new things that make the Microsoft Web Platform...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemIIS Media ServicesCommerceToolsmix09
Mar 18, 2009
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...
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Tags: IISASP.NETToolsMixDasBlogOpen Source
Nov 12, 2008
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...
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Tags: IISTools
Oct 16, 2008
Yesterday, we released the new Microsoft Web Application Installer, or Web AI, at www.microsoft.com/web . This tool for IIS7 allows you to simply install and get running with some of the most popular PHP and ASP.NET open source and community applications...
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Tags: mediaWeb PlaylistsBit Rate ThrottlingIIS Media PackTools
Oct 03, 2008
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...
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Tags: IISASP.NETTools