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PUT/POST/DELETE Verb Errors On Site
A client was getting errors when using PUT/POST/DELETE verbs on their web application recently. The errors he was seeing were: After some troubleshooting the error was isolated to the fact that WebDav was installed on the server and was intercepting …
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Configuring Microsoft’s SMTP Service to allow relay
My recent post on Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008 helps people get up-and-running with a local SMTP service to support the sending of emails from code (i.e.: C# Sample For Sending Emails). Just getting the …
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Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008
The most popular blog post on my site is how to send email to ASP.NET (C# code sample). It seems that a recurring question/comment on that post though is from people with issues with the code being rejected when trying …
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Automating Website Creation with PowerShell v3
I will be the first to admit that I am not a scripting pro. Matter of fact, I am pretty much a novice at it. Recently, I stumbled across a PowerShell script that creates a website, populates it with default …
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Install WebDeploy on Windows Server 2012
Now that Windows Server 2012 & IIS8 are released and gaining adoption ground, it might be useful to check out a walk-through on how to get WebDeploy installed and running on this latest Microsoft server platform. What’s WebDeploy? It’s a …
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Performing Offline installations with WPI Command line tool
Performing application installs on a server that does not have internet connectivity used to be a difficult thing to do. You had to locate and download not only the main application, but any dependencies that would be needed to complete …
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Setting up SSL in IIS7
Obtaining an SSL certificate for your website is a task that every IIS administrator will have to perform at some point in time. This can be a confusing process the first time you have to do this. IIS7 has changed …
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Implementing Application Initialization on IIS 7.5
Another great post by Terri over at OrcsWeb that I think you’ll find beneficial. Here’s a brief intro and a link to the full post… Microsoft has released a new module for IIS 7.5 which provides the ability to ‘warm-up’ …
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Orchard Memory Usage and Performance
A guest post by Rick Barber – a senior technical lead over at managed Windows host OrcsWeb: At OrcsWeb we recently came across an issue where a user was having performance issues with a bare-bones Orchard installation on a shared …
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Using Log Parser to Query Event Log Data
Did you know Log Parser could not only query IIS logs but also Event Viewer logs and more? If not, check out this post… Hi Everyone! While I primarily enjoy deep-diving into SQL Server techniques and troubleshooting, I also troubleshoot …
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User Isolation for Multiple FTP Acounts
What is FTP user isolation and how can it help your FTP management headaches? Read on… http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/terri/how-to-set-up-ftp-access-for-multiple-users-with-user-isolation/ Happy Hosting!
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Creating Multiple 301 Redirects with a URL Rewrite Map
Here’s a good post about using a URL ReWrite Map to manage redirects for your site. Anyone who has set up 301 redirects for their site (which should be anyone who has ever renamed a page or moved content) knows …
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How To Set Up Custom Error Pages In IIS 7
Here’s a great post by Jamie at OrcsWeb about setting up custom error pages in IIS7: This blog post will explain how to configure custom error pages in IIS (Internet Information Server). For this example we will be using IIS 7.5 …
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Using Powershell to list group membership from Active Directory (AD)
The following post by Terri, a Support Specialist with OrcsWeb managed Windows hosting, should prove to be very helpful for any administrators or developers looking to list group memberships from Active Directory. Below is just one example of the many …
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Troubleshooting Application Request Routing (ARR)
Troubleshooting ARR (Microsoft’s Application Request Routing solution) can be tricky at times. Here’s a great post by Jeff Graves from OrcsWeb with some tips on tracking down issues – specifically the especially-tricky 502.x errors. Troubleshooting ARR 502.3 Errors
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Magically Sync Machine Key for All Nodes in a Web Farm
Okay, well, it isn’t really magic – not even the Apple type – but it is pretty cool. Below is a post by OrcsWeb’s Jeff Graves providing a VERY handy script that can be used to instantly synchronize the machine …
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URL Scan or Request Filtering in IIS7
URL Scan has been a useful tool since Windows Server 2003, and continues to be used on many web server deployments. Did you know though that IIS7 includes a feature named Request Filtering that handles the same functionality as URL …
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Orchard: Custom Content in Sub-Folders
Orchard doesn’t seem to like anything in it’s web root except for it’s own content. Try it out – create a folder (I created /TestContent/) and then put a test from there (I created test.html) and try to access it. …
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Enable Caching in IIS to Speed Performance
Google’s various page speed testing tools seem to prefer browser caching set with at least a one week expiration set. That makes great sense to me! Setting a browser cache expiration tells the visitor’s browser that is is okay to …
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IIS 7.x Shared Configuration
Below is a guest post from Rick Barber, the Senior Support Specialist at OrcsWeb, a managed Windows hosting provider specializing in Windows cloud server hosting and dedicated Windows hosting. If you find the following to be useful, check out the link …
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Log Parser: Pulling Valuable Data From IIS Logs
Tweet Microsoft’s Log Parser is an awesome tool that justifies knowledge, if not even regular use, by both system administrators and web users alike. From the download site: “Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access …
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Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Tweet Below is a guest-post by Terri, one of the managed Windows support engineers at OrcsWeb. If you’ve ever run into the situation where you want to analyze performance data on Windows Server and don’t know what counters to collect …
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Beware the Morto Worm
Tweet Have you heard of the Morto Worm? We’ve had a lot more viruses lately than worms so you might not be aware or have heard. A “worm” like the Morto Worm infects one system then spreads itself automatically to …