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How to use Process monitor to capture information on w3wp processes article

steve schofield — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:58:22 GMT

http://www.iislogs.com/articles/processmonitorw3wp/

Boston USA - Free Training at Microsoft Office

UTOLLWI — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:45:03 GMT

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How to make sure SMTP Service logging works.

steve schofield — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:19:22 GMT

I ran into an issue where my Windows Server 2008 SMTP Service wasn't logging. Here is what I found how to resolve it.

http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2008/02/29/windows-server-2008-smtp-service-logging-tip.aspx

FAQ: Using Windows Live ID with this site

JayNeu — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:27:11 GMT

Using Windows Live ID with this site

Simplify your sign in

Create your sign in credentials (e-mail and password) once, then use them everywhere on the Windows Live ID service. You can even set the site to remember your credentials for you!

What is Windows Live ID?

Refer to this article.

Do I have to register with a Windows Live ID account?

Yes. If you are a new user to the Microsoft Communities sites (asp.net, silverlight.net, windowsclient.net, and iis.net), you MUST register using a Windows Live ID. To get started with the registration process, please click here.

Can I still use my existing asp.net website account to login?

Yes. If you already have an asp.net website account, you can still login with your existing credentials. Once you have associated your existing asp.net website account to your Windows Live ID, we do recommend that you use the Windows Live ID to log in, so that you have one less set of login credentials to manage.

I cannot change my Windows Live ID password in my "Profile". How do I change my Windows Live ID password?

You cannot change your password in the "Edit Profile" section of this site. You can change or reset your Windows Live ID password here.

I cannot remember my Windows Live ID password, how can I log in?

You can change or reset your Windows Live ID password here.

If l log into this site with Windows Live ID, will I automatically be logged into the other Microsoft Community sites?

No. The Windows Live ID authentication cookie is domain-specific, which means the context of your login is only available to the current site your are on. However, you can use the SAME Windows Live ID and password across any site that accepts Windows Live ID. Additionally, if you select the options "Remember me on this computer" and "Remember my password" on the initial login screen you will not have to enter your login credentials on your future visits to that specific web site (until you clear your cookies).

Is it possible to use a different Windows Live ID than the one I registered with?

Yes. If you would like to use a different Windows Live ID on this site, please submit your request via the iis.net site's feedback form (please reference that your request is about your account on iis.net) and we can dis-associate your Windows Live ID from your asp.net website membership implementation. Once you've received a reply from us, you can then use the "Join" functionality to associate your username/display name with your intended Windows Live ID.

My question is not answered here

If you still have questions about using Windows Live ID with this site, please use the Feedback on this website forum or, you can use the feedback form on the asp.net site (please reference that you have a question about iis.net), and we will help you.

File Copy utility released - RichCopy

steve schofield — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:15:19 GMT

Those looking for a tool to copy content from one server to another, RichCopy looks slick.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog

How-to setup ODBC Logging in IIS 7.0

steve schofield — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:01:19 GMT

Here is an article on how-to setup IIS 7.0 ODBC Logging.

http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2007/12/20/iis7-post-57-how-to-setup-odbc-logging-in-iis-7-0.aspx

Do you know Web Application Installer

FrankFi — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:30:41 GMT

Hi...

Do you know this tool??

The Idea

As you have experienced yourself developing a web application isn’t that easy and quite time consuming. You spend a lot of hours thinking about software design, security problems and of course how to improve end user’s usability.

On the other hand a lot of your users or potential customers have only a limited knowledge about software development or webserver configuration options. For them it’s rather difficult to e.g. “add the appropriate access rights” on a folder or to setup a database. It’s really sad that a lot of people fail or get annoyed by just installing a web application and of course that isn’t the best first impression they should get from your software either.

Seeing an ever growing market for dedicated server systems or virtual private servers (VPS, VSERVER: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vps) starting at low prices and running the Windows Server 2003 operating system it is time to rethink if there are other installing methods available.

If your users have access to a (virtual) dedicated server system they can utilize remote desktop connections to manage it. They can and are used to install software the way they’ve learned to do it on their desktop PCs by just clicking trough a nice little wizard.

The nice little wizard we’ll create in this document will be capable of:

Creating a new website
Adding a virtual directory to an existing website
Creating an application pool and setting up a website/folder as ASP.NET / PHP / Perl application
Creating a new Microsoft SQL or MySQL Database, Logins and Users
Configuring your web application (e.g. web.config) and setting values collected in wizard mode
A lot of user guidance, messages and validations

The process of building your own installer package consists of 3 steps:

Set up the environment
Creating a template for your application (using GenerateConfig.bat)
Customizing this application for your needs (WixEdit)

Find it on www.codeplex.com/wai....

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IIS8 on windows 2008 ?

mike123 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:22:18 GMT

I just noticed that windows 2008 beta is becoming available on MSDN this thursday..

Just wondering whats in store for IIS in the next version of windows ? Will it be released with IIS8 ??

Looking forward to some details !!

thanks :)

mike123

IIS7 Article: IIS7 Setup Overview

bills — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:29:05 GMT

The first step is installation as IIS7, like it's predecessor IIS 6.0, isn't installed by default. In this article, we familiarize you with how IIS7's new componentized pieces are exposed to you during setup. From the article -

IIS7 has a completely modular setup design which enables absolute control over the footprint of the web server. GUI, command line and unattended setup options make it easy to manage the security and servicing footprint of the web server. IIS7 Setup includes more than 40 installable features. The new IIS7 core server pipeline architecture provides a high level of component granularity; we surface that granularity in user selectable installable components. New to IIS7 setup is the ability to install just the feature modules that you require, allowing you to deploy very thin, task specific servers as well as lock out functionality in ways never before possible.

This document provides an overview of Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Server codenamed Longhorn setup technology and a detailed examination of IIS 7 componentized...

Command Line reference

steve schofield — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:23:23 GMT

I'm excited to announce a new command line reference site for IIS Administrators.

http://www.appcmd.com

If you have a new post, feel free to let me know at steve AT iislogs.com. We'll be adding more entries as we find new examples.

Enjoy,

Steve

ASP.NET Podcast Show #98 - Building an IIS7 Http Module

steve schofield — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:20:23 GMT

Podcast by author Wally McClure was recently posted!

http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2007/08/01/asp-net-podcast-show-98-building-an-iis7-http-module.aspx

Check it out!

MSDN Magazine - A First Look at IIS7!

chrisad — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:10:25 GMT

In the premier Microsoft Journal for Developers, MSDN Magazine, IIS Program Manager Mike Volodarsky unveils why IIS7 is so important for developers. In the IIS7 First Look! column, Mike explores the Web Server for Windows Vista and Beyond.

His article focuses attention on IIS7's modularity, simplified deployment and configuration capabilities, the native and managed code extensibility, and lastly on security, performance, and compatibility. Very prevalent on the minds of everyone, Mike answers the common question "why should you start thinking about IIS, a server application, before the next version of Windows Server, code-named "Longhorn", is even near release?"

"It's important to start thinking about it now because Windows Vista ships with the same full-featured IIS 7.0 bits that are expected to be released with Windows Server "Longhorn," he says. "This means you can immediately take advantage of IIS 7.0 ... and get a head-start in developing and testing your production Web applications."

For more useful insight from Mike, read more in the March 2007 MSDN Magazine. You can also find more useful articles written by Mike and other fellow IIS team members on the IIS7 homepage on IIS.NET.

Computerworld's Jonathan Hassell Talks about IIS 7 in Longhorn Server revealed

chrisad — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:29:28 GMT

In Jonathan Hassell's Longhorn Server revealed column on February 14, 2007, he talks about Five IIS enhancements you should know about coming in IIS 7.0.

"The product has been redesigned for Longhorn with security in mind," says Hassell. "[IIS] has transitioned ... into a world-class set of code that can run even the most intense Internet-facing applciations."

Hassell goes on to discuss his list of five, including IIS7's modularity, text-file configuration enabled, task-oriented management interface (IIS Manager), security, and Windows PowerShell support for administration. Read more about why Hassell chose these five to discuss in his recent column.

Port80 Software Releases LinkDeny 1.0 to help stop Image Leeching, ReferrerURL, and more

chrisad — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:32:30 GMT

Port80 Software, an IIS Strategic Commercial Partner specializes in making software designed for IIS, such as w3compiler, httpZip, and much more. Port80 Software recently announced the release of LinkDeny 1.0 offering administrators and developers tools to help save bandwidth, referrer URL rejection, country-based rejection, and other useful features.

LinkDeny 1.0 supports IIS 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 making it widely available to IIS customers worldwide. Port80 Software is offering LinkDeny 1.0 with a free 30-day trial and offers LinkDeny 1.0 for purchase thereafter.

For more details, see LinkDeny 1.0 in IIS.NET's all-new DownloadCENTER.

Turbo-charge your PHP applications with the FastCGI Technical Preview 2!

chrisad — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:04:45 GMT

The FastCGI Technical Preview 2 has been released! This is the second release of the FastCGI component for IIS 5, 6, and 7 since the original announcement of Microsoft’s collaboration with Zend to deliver production quality PHP support for IIS on Windows.

The FastCGI Technical Preview 2 addresses all of the compatibility issues reported by the community for the original release, and adds a number of features to improve the experience of hosting PHP applications on Windows / IIS. It also provides support for deploying the FastCGI component on 64 bit operating systems.

To read more about setting up PHP on IIS, and to download the release, go to the FastCGI main page.

Introducing the IIS.NET Community DownloadCENTER

chrisad — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:55:28 GMT

DownloadCENTER for IIS.net has been released! DownloadCENTER is a community hotspot for discovering, sharing, reviewing and promoting IIS-related solutions in a single place. Dozens of existing downloads, for all versions of IIS – both from Microsoft and the community – are already available in DownloadCENTER today.

This new feature of IIS.net is particularly relevant with the release of IIS7 in Windows Vista right around the corner. The latest release of Microsoft’s Web server has a completely modular architecture which features over forty pluggable components that can be easily added, removed or even replaced with custom implementations. This powerful extensibility support is available to both .NET and C/C++ developers. In the future, DownloadCENTER is expected to house a large number of IIS7 extensions submitted by not only the IIS team but the developers and partner ISVs of the IIS community as well.

DownloadCENTER makes it easy for anyone in the world to submit new scripts, tools, extensions and other valuable contributions for the entire IIS community to share. Submit your creations today!

Mike Voldarsky Brings Icons to Life With IconHandler

chrisad — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:25:37 GMT

Mike Voldarsky, Program Manager on the IIS team and owner of mvolo.com, these days finds himself these days on the other end of the architect spectrum. Mike's day job has him responsible for designing and architecting the core server that you know and love in IIS7. Recently, Mike has been spending more time lately as a user of "his" API's rather than architecting new ones. The benificary of this is you and I.

Mike's most recent work has him building a IconHandler that aims at bringing the nice and dynamic icons from Windows Explorer to Web applications. In this recent blog entry Mike shares with us how he implemented this handler and how we can take advantage of it.

Robert McMurray Offers Scripts To Backup FrontPage-Enabled Websites

chrisad — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:23:26 GMT

IIS Program Manager Robert McMurray had an 'ole friend drop by his Redmond office. Much too his surprise, minutes later he found himself digging through the archives for yet another code sample that will benefit the masses. In this recent blog post, McMurray shares a script that will help all you FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) customers make an offline backup of a FrontPage-enabled Website. From his recent blog:

What he asked me was whether there was a way where he could create an off-line backup of his web site. Of course, there are whole sections of the industry these days that are devoted to such things, but he wanted a simple way to create a backup on his home or work computer of his web site that is hosted at an ISP. Some time ago I wrote a FrontPage VBA macro...Read More

For more great information from the IIS Team, ensure you have subscribe to IIS Team blogs RSS feed on IIS.NET.

XHTML Validator for ASP.NET 2.0 Now IIS7 Ready

chrisad — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:04:38 GMT

XHTML is popular for building robust, standards-based Web sites and applications. The XHTML rules often leave developers mystified and looking for ways to assist them in building XHTML-compliant code. One example, located at JoyOfCode.com, wrote a popular component to help developers debug their ASP.NET code.

JoyOfCode.com recently took this popular XHTML Validator and enhanced it to support IIS7's new integrated pipeline. In his recent blog posting, Bill Staples shares some of the reasons that the JoyOfCode developers are so excited.

This enthusiam is shared by many, many developers, and you can learn about these features and much more on IIS.NET's IIS7 home. For web developers and administrators new to IIS7, take a moment to learn about these changes and much more with this online webcast - Exploring the Future of Web Development and Management with Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0.

Windows Server 2003 AdminPack for Windows Vista Supported Fix Released

chrisad — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:04:42 GMT

Since the business release of Windows Vista, many of you managing IIS have struggled to manage your environment from your new Windows Vista machines. Although this isn't an issue for IIS customers since the IIS Manager is directly available on Vista, we realize it does affect many of you who run other services. The Windows Server 2003 Administration Pack doesn't work correctly on Windows Vista thus not allowing you to manage your various servers from your new Vista desktop.

Microsoft has corrected this problem and released an update that will allow you to run Windows Vista (and IIS7) on your desktop but still manage your Windows Server 2003-based services. The fix, outlined in the Knowledge Base article 930056, requires you to create a new script, run this script in an elevated command-prompt, and create a new shortcut.

If you have questions or comments about this fix, please use the following resources to help answer your questions:

If you have problems managing your IIS 6.0 servers after following these instructions, we encourage you to use the IIS.NET forums to obtain assistance.

Getting Ready for 2007: Planned Events for IIS Team

chrisad — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:45:15 GMT

As many start their holidays, the IIS team is busy planning its 2007 schedule of events. This is an exciting time for the team as we come off our latest release, IIS 7.0, for the client (Windows Vista) and are closing in on completion of our updates for Longhorn Server. And 2007 will be another full year for us with many priorities--none bigger than “hitting the road” to educate you on how to take advantage of our latest platform. Over and above that, our road-show will give us the opportunity to listen to your best practices and answer your questions face-to-face. If you haven’t locked in your registration, don’t hesitate—get it done now! We look forward to seeing you at one of these events in the upcoming year.

Mix07 | Register

TechEd US 2007 | Register

TechEd Europe 2007 | Register

PDC 2007 | Register

ASP.NET Connections | Register

ASPLive | Register

See ya next year!

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APC.com asks "Is Longhorn's IIS an Apache killer?"

chrisad — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:04:42 GMT

In the recent article, “Is Longhorn’s IIS an Apache Killer”, Paul Schnackenburg triggered a heated debate about IIS7’s potential for displacing Apache. After sparking this debate, Schnackenburg explained why he feels that this question isn’t an easy one, citing “some interesting new features” introduced in IIS7.

For example—as noted by Schnackenburg—IIS7 is built from the ground up with more changes in product features than users have seen in several versions.

Released with Windows Vista, IIS7 is available now for developers to start working on this platform for the future. And IIS7 on the next server release, Codenamed “Longhorn,” will continue to use the same code base, but will include even more features and innovations.

Regarding the controversy he stirred up, Schnackenburg knows the jury is still out, but he notes that “Microsoft has certainly made great strides in accommodating the needs of different flavours of administrator.”

IIS.NET joins other strong Microsoft Online Communities

chrisad — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:43:37 GMT

You may have noticed the recent changes to the IIS.NET site. These changes reflect how Microsoft teams are joining together, creating synergy between the most powerful and popular online communities. This “community ribbon” offers you—IIS users—complete and immediate access to what’s happening in other Microsoft communities such as ASP.NET, Channel 9, Channel 10, and many other sites with great information relevant to IIS users. Look for continuing future changes to our site, all meant to ease your life as you learn more about IIS and other Microsoft technologies.

New IIS7 Article: Upgrading ASP.NET 1.1 to Windows Vista and IIS7

chrisad — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:03:49 GMT

A new article tailored for customers running ASP.NET 1.1 has been released on IIS.NET, and it should help ease the transition to Windows Vista™ and IIS7 for all these users. Written by multiple authors on the Microsoft ASP.NET and Ajax team, this article explains to ASP.NET users how best to upgrade to Windows Vista and how to handle the most common problems they might encounter after this upgrade.

Here’s an excerpt from this article:

For ASP.NET application developers who move to the Windows Vista™ operating system, IIS 7.0 represents a significant advance over earlier IIS versions because of increased security and the new application possibilities offered by IIS 7.0 Integrated mode. Most developers who move to Windows Vista will be upgrading from the Microsoft Windows® XP operating system to Windows Vista and will upgrade their ASP.NET applications in the process or else will install, on Windows Vista, ASP.NET applications that were developed on other Windows operating systems . This paper details important post-installation and post-upgrade configuration steps that must be performed for applications to work on the new operating system and also describes changes between Classic mode and IIS 7.0 Integrated mode that affect ASP.NET applications, and how to work around these known problems.

Strahl of CoDe Magazine asks "Are you ready for IIS 7?"

chrisad — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:49:46 GMT

In his recent article, Rick Strahl of CoDe Magazine took time to ask his readers if they were ready for IIS7. This highly-rated article outlines the high points of IIS7 and why Strahl is advocating usage of IIS7. As Strahl says, "I've been running IIS7 exclusively since early this year and I run Windows 2003 server on my live site."

There's a lot to like about IIS7 on Windows Vista and while there are some major changes under the hood, Microsoft has done a great job of keeping the server compatible with existing applications. Kudo's on the foresight of building the configuration support for IIS7 into ASP.NET 2.0 a year before IIS7 ships! The new features and removal of limitations are a huge bonus for me and I think for the first time I feel confident that I don't need to install a server operating system on my development machine and still have access to the full Web server functionality.

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