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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...

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. http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/06/16/troubleshooting-service-startup-issues-with-process-monitor.aspx To continue on that...

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...

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...

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...

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. This...

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