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I often do development, testing or troubleshooting where I want to see all server variables available to a site. For example, when using a reverse proxy for load balancing, SERVER_ADDR, HTTP_HOST and other variables can change. Whenever I run into
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As a remote worker I'm always looking to find better ways to work with the team that don't involve actually going to Seattle. As much as I love/hate Microsoft, I'm not moving. However, this always puts me at a disadvantage. There's only so many places
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I heard someone saying they were having trouble setting up Smooth Streaming for IIS, so I wanted to try it myself. If you just want to see Smooth Streaming work, visit http://www.smoothhd.com/ for some sample demos. They'll adapt to your bandwidth and
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In a shared hosting environment, it’s a common desire to have a single IIS website that handles multiple sites with different domain names. This saves the cost of setting up additional sites with the hoster. At ORCS Web , we’ve supported this
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The IIS7 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit is an awesome tool to review your site and indicate any problems with the html that may cause search engines not to index your website properly. Check out Scott Guthrie’s post on the IIS7 Search
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Consider this a 2nd part to IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www . Reader Rubens asked about redirecting multiple domain names in a single rule. That’s a good question and worth writing a part II blog post about it. Here’s his question:
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A majority of my geek time is spent at work, like most people. It's hard to keep up on technology coming out of Redmond. In past years, I would subscribe to several 'list-servs' on various content, then review the data when I had some extra time. It was
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If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using. One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com. Many people are doing this for search engine optimization
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I wrote an article in 2007 how to setup ODBC Logging on IIS 7.0. There was a post recently in the newsgroups someone wanted to setup and couldn't get it working. My article uses sql server 2005, IIS 7.0. I was able to reproduce an issue on my test server
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Here is article I put together (with pictures) using process monitor to filter information on a specific W3WP process, listing USER property. I commonly reference how to do this @ http://forums.iis.net http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp/
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In Windows 2000 clustering, there was a resource for IIS clustering. This was removed and hasn't been available until recently Thomas Deml from the IIS team pointed to a KB article.. Exciting, Exciting news!! http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2009/10/27/iis7-and-failover-clustering.aspx
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The final release of the Web Deployment Tool (aka Web Deploy or MsDeploy) has been released to the web. This is likely more significant than many people realize. At first glance, Web Deploy seems like a tool for system administrators to copy
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Carlos from the IIS team announced the IIS SEO toolkit supports querying sites with Basic or Windows Authentication. I was looking for support against Sharepoint and protected sites. This tool hasn't gotten enough press and is a original piece of software
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A person I work with was looking to control web.config inheritance in sub-folders within a website. Through some research, asking on an geek mailing list, here is three options that came out. Two are IIS based , one is using ASP.NET. Hope this helps Option
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Here is a good thread about WebDAV, FTP 7.5, Shared configuration.. I try to track gems like this in my UNC tag. http://forums.iis.net/p/1160381/1915103.aspx Here is more information on Shared Configuration http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/95/managing-shared-configuration/
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