Jul 20, 2009
Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS6FIPS.NET
Jun 25, 2009
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...
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Tags: IISHTTPIIS6securityToolsAccess DeniedAuthentication
Jun 16, 2009
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...
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May 05, 2009
This is just a quick blog to mention a forgotten tool. The managed stack explorer can be run on an IIS 6.0 Server running ASP.NET 2.0 to investigate the managed call stacks. Looking at the call stacks when an ASP.NET application is not responding may...
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Tags: ASP.NETIIS6DebuggingHang
Feb 24, 2009
Cross-posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/mike Enabling HTTP Compression for your IIS6 web applications is one way of increasing site performance. One of the more common problems I see when helping customers with compression is that their IIS servers are...
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Tags: HTTPHTTP CompressionIIS6