IIS Team Blogs Tagged with "troubleshooting, IIS" (RSS)

Use Process Monitor to filter w3wp processes, capture user property (w/pictures) article

Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp...

Troubleshooting performance counter problems with perfmon and a debugger

Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code...

Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles

When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these features involve using...

When to restart IIS when making changes to your application

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance...

Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing

When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line...( read more ) Read More...

Improved PortCheck 2.0 to diagnose IIS service connectivity problems

Due to demand for the original PortCheck tool , I decided to release the updated version that I myself have been using that has a few more features to help diagnose connectivity issues. Download the tool, source code, and find out more about diagnosing...

IIS requests could be slower if your log file directory is invalid or offline

If you are pointing your W3SVC log files to a location that is incorrect or goes offline, especially if it is a remote UNC share like \\server\logs – your requests on IIS 6 could be slower. The reason is that HTTP.sys wants to write an entry for...

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