Apr 28, 2009
There is a great whitepaper available that explains the "ins and outs" of using file servers/UNC paths for hosting content. The document's original link had been missing from the MS web site for quite a while and I has happy to discover that apparently...
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Apr 27, 2009
Since IIS 6, Microsoft has made it very easy to troubleshoot the cause of a 404 "not found" error from the web server. Most admins don't realize that the IIS log file can now include the substatus code along with the 404. The first step is to make sure...
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Dec 11, 2008
A common question I see in the IIS forums is "what is a virutal directory?" or "what is a virtual server?", so I thought this might make a good topic for a blog post. Well, let's start with the difference between a site and a directory. A site is something...
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Oct 09, 2008
I just had a client ask if it was possible to search on zip file contents from within their Windows SharePoint Services site that I host for them. After a little digging I found that Microsoft has just released (10/9/2008) the Microsoft Filter Pack that...
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Tags: zipseachSharePoint
Jun 26, 2008
I had a client the other day ask me if there was an easy way for him to check a page he had that had a list of over one hundred web sites. Obviously it's very tedious to have to go and click each link one by one, so I offered to try and come up with some...
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Tags: HTMLASP.NETparse