Aug 01, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS7, IIS, troubleshooting, AppCmd, Tools
Mar 24, 2008
Won's recent post on possible configuration corruption caused by OneCare/Forefront reminded me of something that every IIS7 customer should know about: how to backup and restore IIS7 configuration! No matter whether your configuration file gets corrupted...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Troubleshooting, Developers, Administrators, Configuration
Feb 25, 2008
When working with your IIS 7.0 server, you'll often need to start and stop IIS 7.0 Web sites and start, stop, or recycle IIS 7.0 application pools. Unfortunately, often people don't fully understand what these actions mean and how to properly use them...
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Filed under: IIS7, troubleshooting
Dec 11, 2007
The IIS 7.0 health model (Windows speak for known diagnostical and failure conditions experienced by software) has just been pubished on TechNet. The health model is primarily a list of event log events that are raised by various IIS subsystems, including...
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Filed under: IIS7, troubleshooting
Sep 10, 2007
A few months ago the IIS team did a quick tour of Europe, speaking in various cities and countries in an all-day IIS conference specifically geared toward training people on IIS7. Luckily, the good people of Poland decided to record and publish the training...
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Filed under: IIS7, Extensibility, Samples & Demos, Troubleshooting, IIS News Item, Developers, Performance
Sep 04, 2007
I've seen this issue pop up a few times so I thought I'd share a few quick tips / tricks to getting SQL Server 2005 to work on Vista. If you see an error saying "Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled.", but...
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Filed under: IIS7, Administration, Troubleshooting
Aug 28, 2007
I ran across this and thought I'd share in case anyone out there hits the same issue. If you see this error pop up in the IIS7 Administration tool (IIS Manager - inetmgr.exe) that looks like this: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception...
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Filed under: IIS7, Troubleshooting
Jul 26, 2007
Dealing with server errors can be frustrating. Thankfully, IIS7 comes with many improvements to help diagnose errors when they occur, and help resolve them - however, its important that you know how to property use these capabilities. This post gives...
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Filed under: IIS7, troubleshooting, IIS News Item