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IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer
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. I have a rule that catches all requests (status code 200-500) and there is no negative impact.
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Configuration Editor teaches you how to write IIS7 scripts
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 you how to make configuration via Microsoft.Web.Administration (the IIS7.NET configuration API), via AHAdmin (the scriptable COM interface Microsoft.Web.Adminstration uses under the covers) and APPCMD (the IIS7 command-line tool).
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Securely Delegating IIS7 Settings in Hosted Environments
Classic ASP
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Hosting Übersites: IIS7 Support for International Domain Names (IDN)
Let's suppose you are German, you developed an extremely cool web-site and now you want to make it available to your German Bier buddies. The only really fetzig site name you could come up with contains one of these nasty German umlauts: übersite.de (not registered at the time I'm writing this blog).