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Default mail program is not configured
I came across an issue recently where someone was trying to email a document from a program and getting an error that a default mail program is not configured or that the mail program was unable to handle the request.
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Enabling Failed Request Tracing
Occasionally I get questions on how to troubleshoot intermittent issues in IIS. One example is an intermittent 500 status code and another example is a slow page load. In IIS7 and later there is a simple module that you can install as part of IIS called Failed Request Tracing (FREB).
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Which application pool is it?
If you are running multiple web sites on your IIS web server you will eventually need to know which worker process is associated with a particular application pool. It may be for baseline information or troubleshooting but at one point or another you will need to cross reference an application pool to a w3wp worker process.
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Orchard Memory Usage
I recently spent some time working with some coworkers to track down an Orchard performance issue. We found it was caused by some memory restrictions on the application pool. I wrote about it on another blog site where I am also a guest blogger.
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Track down the source of SQL Injection
A SQL Injection attack is a malicious technique used to attack databases through a website. It adds portions of SQL statements into the URL from a page that accepts user input. The attack is successful when there are vulnerabilities in a website where user input is not filtered and validated.