May 25, 2007
I've seen several posts asking the question: how do I turn off the "verify file exists" setting on handlers / script maps in IIS7. I must admit, this seems to not be as straightforward as it should be. Hopefully this post helps you out. The configuration...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETAdministrationTroubleshootingASP
May 21, 2007
I was reminded the other day just how many classic ASP applications and developers there are out there! The original ASP rocks, I remember experiencing it for the first time back in 1996/97 when it first came out with IIS3, and being amazed at how...
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Tags: IIS7TroubleshootingCompatibilityIIS News ItemDevelopersASP
May 19, 2007
In a previous post titled Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors , I covered the basic steps for dealing with 503 Service Unavailable errors on IIS7. This post dives deeper into debugging the IIS worker process to get...
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Tags: IIS7troubleshootingDebugging
Feb 15, 2007
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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Tags: IISTroubleshooting
Nov 06, 2006
This is a question that I'm surprised doesn't come up more often. I guess, like many of you, I take pride in figuring things out on my own. I hate asking for help and admitting I don't know the answer. And we've all had the unfortunate experience of calling...
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Tags: TroubleshootingMisc
Oct 19, 2006
Another one of my favorite features is the IIS7 Detailed Errors feature. Thomas wrote a great article titled Understanding Custom and Detailed Errors which provides a good overview of this simple, yet powerful feature. (though it needs to be updated for...
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Tags: IIS7Troubleshooting
Oct 19, 2006
In the previous post, I covered the “server not found” error that is a common and frustrating problem that may occur for a number of reasons after a configuration change, or when deploying a new server machine. Another common “what the...
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Oct 19, 2006
One of my favorite IIS7 features is something we call "FREB", which originally stood for "Failed Request Event Buffering". We've given it a more friedly name now: 'failed request tracing', but everyone around here still calls it freb. It is a really awesome...
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Tags: IIS7Troubleshooting