Recent Posts

5
Comments

IIS7 and Failover Clustering by thomad

We recently published an article on how to enable failover clustering for IIS7 and Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). MSCS provides failover and increased availability of applications by failing over to a second machine that is on stand-by or by just taking...
0
Comments

Kerberos Authentication Issues by thomad

We ran into some problems with Kerberos authentication lately and this forced me to unearth the knowledge I once had about Kerberos. The Issue: Some Microsoft employees ran into 400 errors when accessing certain Intranet web pages. A 400 error is pretty...
2
Comments

Now Available: The IIS 7.5 Application Warm-Up Module by thomad

IIS is a demand-driven web server, i.e. IIS does things only when asked for. For example: an IIS worker process spawns up only when requests arrive for the sites that are hosted in this worker process. Without requests there isn't a worker process. This...
0
Comments

What account is your AppPool running as? by thomad

IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is changing the default Application Pool identity from NetworkService to virtual accounts with the name of the Application Pool itself. The Application Pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ will run as the virtual account...
0
Comments

Now available for download: Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in by thomad

We just made the Release Candidate of the IIS PowerShell Snap-in available. A lot of work was done between Tech Preview 2 and now. We focused mainly on augmenting the PowerShell Provider with almost 70 task-oriented cmdlets useful for day-to-day administrative...
3
Comments

CTP2 of IIS7 PowerShell Provider Released! by thomad

Tech Preview 2 of the IIS7 PowerShell Provider is now available for download. What’s new in Tech Preview 2? IIS7 Powershell provider now supports SSL (installing and acquiring a certificate, creating an ssl site binding) Tech Preview 2 ships with 40 new...
8
Comments

Now Available: URL Rewriter Tech Preview 1 by thomad

Today we are releasing Technical Preview 1 of the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0. The URL Rewrite Module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing request URL’s before they get processed by IIS. The module supports regular expression based...
2
Comments

IIS Discussion Digest: Edition 1 by thomad

Many Microsoft folks use an internal alias to discuss their IIS issues. Each week plenty of interesting topics come up. I will try to pick the most interesting topics and blog them regularly. I was a bit late this week, but nonetheless here is Edition...
3
Comments

The IIS Process Model Features by thomad

A process model is needed to run more than one web-site, web application or web-service securely and reliably on a single machine. In Shared Hosting scenarios hundreds or even thousands of web-sites run on an individual machine. The code running on these...

Comments

IISRESET light by thomad

Note: This blog entry used to be on my old blog. I'm about to shut it down so I thought I replicate some of the content here. Many IIS customers use IISRESET to get IIS back into a vanilla state. IISRESET is a pretty heavy hammer however and not needed...

Comments

In a Nut Shell: Shared Hosting Improvements on IIS7 by thomad

We were meeting with AdHost today and I gave a quick 30-minute spiel on what we improved in IIS7 when it comes to Shared Hosting. Here is the list (not necessarily complete): 1) Shared Configuration You can have the central IIS configuration file (applicationhost...

Comments

Understanding IIS7 Request Restrictions on Windows Vista by thomad

Note: This blog entry used to be on my old blog. I'm about to shut it down so I thought I replicate some of the content here. You might have run into the IIS connection limit on Windows XP. IIS 5.1 on Windows XP allowed 10 concurrent connections before...

Comments

IIS7 PowerShell Provider Podcast by thomad

Saw a post on forums.iis.net last week about a Podcast on our new IIS7 PowerShell Provider. Being the Program Manager for this thing I thought maybe these guys want me to participate in the Podcast. And sure enough - Jonathan and Hal were interested....

Comments

Cheesy Web Server Performance Test With PowerShell by thomad

Instead of writing WCAT scripts I wrote my own little perf test client. The following .PS1 script works pretty well to do some very basic performance testing. Just enter the URL and the duration in seconds, e.g. ".\webperf.ps1 http://localhost/ 15"...

Comments

IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider Tech Preview 1 by thomad

Finally, IIS 7.0 has a PowerShell Provider! The IIS7 PowerShell Provider allows you to Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications...
More Posts Next page »
Powered by Community Server (Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems