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I've blogged before about 32-bit vs. 64-bit .NET under IIS and how different Framework-bitnesses need different Application Pools (AppPools). Someone asked how you find out what AppPools are on a machine and how do you find out which ones are 32-bit? There's a number of ways, depending on your needs: If you're running a batch file or ...

A question that comes up a lot is this: How do I tell my IIS Application or Virtual Directory to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than ASP.NET 2.0? Folks often go into the IIS6 or IIS7 manager and setup an AppPool and see a properties dialog like this, and when the pull down the option, they often expect to see .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 in the list ...

Apparently the IIS stack has changed in Server 2003. I've never noticed any issues with my ASP.NET apps, but in case you do, here's the full post: http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/03/31/stack-sizes-in-iis-affects-asp-net.aspx.

I just spent about 4 hours trying to solve this really annoying error which only exists in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) over a Secure (SSL) page.  I just stumbled upon the solution and it was just so damn obscure I felt I had better write it down or it will be forever lost in the bit-bucket that I call my brain. Although my issue was related to ...

Months ago, even before I started at Microsoft, I got to talk to some very nice people about a project they were calling AdminX. After I told them that that was very possibly the worst name they could possibly give it (and they took part that very well) we got to dig into what the tool was going ...

Hello Dear Reader. I have been working with IIS7 for a while and I'm convinced that it's the cat's pajamas[1] I started playing with IIS7 and noticed that it had FastCGI support. This means I could plug in PHP or maybe Perl or even Ruby into IIS7. This would be nice because I could host my ...

There are many times when it is worthwhile to create a custom machineKey for your web.config file.  This is worthwhile on a webfarm but also worthwhile on a stand-alone server so that your machineKey remains the same after an iisreset or application pool recycle.  I've put together a simple tool that will generate a valid random ...