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 20, 2008
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETExtensibilityAdministrationTroubleshootingIIS News ItemDevelopersPerformanceVideosMediaAdministratorsConfigurationSecurityDeployment
Sep 12, 2008
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...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIStroubleshootingdevelopmentAppCmd
Aug 27, 2008
Very often as sysadmins we come across numbers that make no sense. Give the same to a debugger and he\she will make your life simpler and happier. Well I am a no different sysadmin! (well atleast that is what I would like to call myself) However, off...
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Tags: TroubleshootingWindows
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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Tags: IIS7IIStroubleshootingAppCmdTools
Jul 21, 2008
Q.) When I try to start the IIS Admin Service from services.msc I receive the following error: Could not start the IIS Admin Service on Local Computer Error2: The system cannot find the file specified. At the same time I can also see the following message...
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Tags: IIS 6TroubleshootingMetaBase.xml
Jun 21, 2008
.nobr br { display: none } I thought it would be a great idea to write this down as an entry.The information that I am going to share now has helped me to troubleshoot a majority of cases I have had on IIS. Lets start by understanding what are status...
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Tags: IIS 6TroubleshootingStatusSubstatuscodes
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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Tags: IIS7AdministrationTroubleshootingDevelopersAdministratorsConfiguration