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...
1 comments
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...
1 comments
Filed under: IIS7, troubleshooting
Jan 23, 2008
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...
1 comments
Filed under: IIS, troubleshooting, Goodies, Tools
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...
10 comments
Filed under: IIS7, troubleshooting
Nov 13, 2007
Remote Administration and Delegation in IIS7 In this screencast, we configure our IIS7 server for remote administration and delegation. The remote administration service in IIS7 is a new and powerful feature that allows us to connect securely to our remote...
1 comments
Filed under: PHP, Troubleshooting, IIS News Item, Developers, Videos, Administrators, WebCasts
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...
2 comments
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...
2 comments
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...
1 comments
Filed under: IIS7, Troubleshooting