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I'm not yet clear what I did, but I'm blogging it so it can be found if someone else has this issue. For whatever reason, last week both of my Vista 64-bit machines suddenly stopped being able to start IIS (Internet Information Server). The service just wouldn't start. I started getting this error instead "Cannot start service W3SVC on ...

IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Install the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW today! Microsoft URL...(read more)

This article contains tips, tricks and steps to use Security Configuration wizard (SCW) included in Windows Server 2008. I was recently working on locking down Windows Server 2008 with IIS. By default, Windows Server 2008 is more locked down than any...(read more)

Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up. Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage of IIS7's modular design to release a bunch of new ...

There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster. I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smallestdotnet and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find, as a small example. Getting a machine up to speed for Web Development is another thing that's ...

Got some great news today!! ''Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award!'' It's been awesome to be part of the IIS community. Since IIS 7.0 has come out, the IIS community continues to grow. It's fun sharing and learning...(read more)

I came across a post on StackOverflow.com regarding web site performance. Quite often you can take a look at your application and find 10 different ways to make it more efficient. Depending on your environment, you may have many different ways to increase performance. For instance, in a shared hosting environment, you’ll likely be limited as to ...

The IIS Team has been releasing some really cool modules of late. Check them out. Also, keep an eye on http://blogs.iis.net for all the latest news! URLRewrite module http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/09/11/url-rewrite-module-go-live-release.aspx...( read more )...(read more)

In IIS7, there are two modes for ASP.NET application pools: classic mode (only mode available for IIS6) and integrated mode. Integrated Mode offers quite a bit with IIS7 and is the recommended mode for application pools (more details at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/244/how-to-take-advantage-of-the-iis7-integrated-pipeline/). One of the changes ...

Here are a few gotcha's that I personally came across both in the forums and migrations I've done from IIS6 to IIS7. A lot of the confusion I see in the forums is Classic ASP and 'native' applications using COM+ trying to move to IIS 7. A classic ASP...(read more)