Contents tagged with IIS
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ASP 500 Error and Error Code 0x800700aa when browsing a simple .asp page
I recently helped a customer with an issue where ASP pages would not execute and returned the following error page:
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A Tale of Two Developers and Visual Studio Sites and Apps
We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't any problem in working with this way, but you may encounter some very real problems when you deploy your application unless you plan in advance.
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Troubleshooting HTTP 401.3 errors with Process Monitor
Last week I posted the following blog which showed how to use Process Monitor to troubleshoot service startup issues.
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Troubleshooting service startup issues with Process Monitor
Many things can cause a service, like IIS’s World Wide Web Publishing Service, to fail on startup. When troubleshooting such an issue, Process Monitor can be an invaluable tool. What Process Monitor does is monitor all File and Registry access on the system in real-time. The latest version of process monitor can be obtained here.
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Caution while xcopying IIS 7.0 config files
Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file to another server and transferring the settings with it. But if you copy over a metabase.xml file from another server your IIS admin service will no longer start. This happens because the metabase.xml file contains ACLs that control access to any metabase key. Stored under the AdminACL tag these keys are encoded based on the machinekeys of the server. When you move the metabase.xml to another server the keys can no longer be decoded and hence your IIS Admin service will not be able to start.
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Changes to Application Pool identities in IIS 7.5 [BETA]
IIS 6.0 introduced a lot of features to increase reliability and security. As an architectural change the worker process w3wp.exe was introduced. To increase security IIS 6.0 by default launched the worker process using the NTAuthority\Network Service account. Network Service is a low privilege predefined account that was introduced in Windows 2003. All guidance/documentation recommend running the worker process under the Network Service.
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SCCM 2007 Charting functionality does not work on 64 bit IIS
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) has a nice functionality of displaying report data as charts. When deployed on a 64 bit IIS 6.0 machine these chart displays may stop working and you will start getting the following error message.