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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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"...

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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...

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IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer by thomad

There is a 90% chance I have to use the " Failed Request Tracing " feature (FRT) when I'm troubleshooting IIS7 issues. To be honest, I stopped turning it off. Tracing is so useful and fast that I don't see why I should disable it on my development box...

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Configuration Editor teaches you how to write IIS7 scripts by thomad

The IIS7 configuration system is pretty complex even though it is plain xml. Writing code or scripts to make configuration changes usually requires a bunch of trial and error. But not anymore! The IIS7 Admin Pack includes a configuration editor that shows...

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Securely Delegating IIS7 Settings in Hosted Environments by thomad

Classic ASP We tightened Classic ASP security a little bit more in IIS 7.0. The scriptErrorSentToBrowser property is set to false for example. This means that no script error whatsoever is displayed. In a hosted environment this might be a problem however...
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