We use a third party CMS that claims to provide a load balancing configuration where the end users can edit markup, upload images, etc. to modify the contents of their websites. We are preparing to offer this load balancing/fail over configuration as an option. As a proof of concept I have to configure...

There's a whole host of other stuff you might need to consider as well. For example, if you're going to have more than one AppPool, you'll need to sort out authentication with this command (run from AdminScripts folder): cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/NTAuthenticationProviders "NTLM"...

Hello, I've used Google and the Windows Live Search, but I couldn't find a straight answer to my question, so let me explain: I've one server with IIS 6.0 installed. A lot of websites/webapplications will be installed soon. (50+). These are all different websites. Should I run these webapplications...

This happens in our Production Web server. Sometimes the processor usage spikes to 100% and doesn't come down. The server hangs and we need to force it by doing an IISreset. The process that takes all 100% is w3wp.exe. IIS logs for this period looks normal with regular traffic. This has happened...

Hi Zhao, This happens in our Production Web server. The Active Session count is consistently around 4294958367. Memory usage on the server looks normal though. When there is iisreset, the count goes down to 0 and comes back to this huge number in a few minutes. There is only one website running on this...

I was troubleshooting down this very path when I got the reply in my inbox. In fact it was an issue with mixed 1.1 and 2.0 apps in the same application pool. Once I separated them and changed the default application pool to be .net 2.0 everything fell into place.

Hi: I am setting up the .NET web service running on windows 2003 server, however I encountered an problem that I could not run the application pool identity under an specified user account, which is already member of IIS_WPG, STS_WPG and Administrator. As long as I change the application identity from...