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Troubleshooting performance counter problems with perfmon and a debugger

Sunday, May 24, 2009
Debugging IIS troubleshooting
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Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code...(read more)
Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
ASP.NET IIS IIS7 troubleshooting
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When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these features involve using...(read more)
Analyzing server power consumption and costs

Sunday, February 1, 2009
IIS IIS7 performance Power
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For many data centers, the cost of powering servers has become a top budget item. The first step to reducing power costs lies in understanding the power characteristics of your server equipment and workloads. We started with a simple power meter and a tool to monitor and correlate power data ......(read more)