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 12, 2009
FREB (Failed Requests Tracing – formerly known as Failed Request Event Buffering) is one of the nicest features released with IIS7 which would come in handy during troubleshooting. It does request based tracing, and produces a log file (in .xml format...
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Tags: IIS7FREB
Mar 15, 2009
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...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS
Feb 12, 2009
If you implement custom health monitoring events in ASP.NET chances are that you should have worked with WebBaseEvent or WebErrorEvent classes and used the WebBaseEvent.Raise() method to fire those events. Recently an interesting issue related to this...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NET
Feb 10, 2009
I was recently working on a reporting web application that uses the Report Viewer ( ReportViewer ) control that ships with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The Report Viewer control was rendering perfectly when I was developing using Visual Studio...
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Tags: IIS7
Feb 06, 2009
Thanks to Robert Patrick for submitting these issues There have been some issues recently where users complain of SSL connections suddenly no longer working with IIS7. Users can connect to IIS7 websites over http://, but browsing to https:// fails with...
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Tags: IIS7ssl