A Former Microsoft IIS PM
Let's just be honest - life is so short that we just bleep this way & that way with no real claim to fame. I don't need no fame, just friends...and in this cyberworld we live I have you! I have been found... Welcome Friend! Posts here..well, they are just things that pop to this small, yet energized brain of mine!
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Get the Facts on Windows Vista & IIS 7.0 Compatibility
For many, the first question asked when a new version of IIS is released - what is known not to work? In a recent webcast, I discussed what the known issues were for IIS 7.0 vs. IIS 6.0 and how to workaround. The functionality often still works but differently because of the fundamental changes in the platform. For some features, though, it simply didn't make sense to keep shipping the binary as today's Web technologies offer much more robust functionality.
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Getting Started with IIS 7.0
I recently delivered a webcast on Getting Started with IIS 7.0 aimed at educating newbies on IIS7 and bring them up to speed with what they have in front of them, and why it is so important that they do it! Reviewing the top reasons to upgrade in 60 minutes or less is like asking a Porsche to governer at 28 MPH. It was stressful, yet exciting nonetheless. A good, non-textual based (like an article - this is great, just some like other ways to learn), review of what differs between IIS 6.0 & 7.0.
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Managing IIS 6.0 Servers from Windows Vista (and other Management Stuff)
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Christmas Project: Getting Exchange Server 2007 Installed
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IIS7 Deployments calls for ETag Usage Review if using
Entity Tags (ETags) are commonly used in Web applications to effectively leverage the power of using web farms, which is a non-fancy term for HTTP/S load balancing. In web farms, a common practice is to set what is called ETags as it helps enhance performance in web farm scenarios. ETags is controlled in IIS by a metabase property (ETAG_CHANGENUMBER) and this value is sent back to clients via response headers as instructed by the HTTP RFC 2616.
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Ever get too Busy? Take the time...Learn
I thought I would take a moment today and re-invigorate a passion I have had for quite some time and that is blogging. I apologize in advance for the incredible gap between this post and my last and certainly want to ensure you that I will try and avoid this type of gap in the future. This post, though, is dedicated to my father who I lost on October 29th, 2006. My hero would have wanted me to move forward and continue to seek the passion that is my life. I miss you dad..
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The sparkle of IISSuba...(oh, that is the IIS Sub Authenticator for those that don't know it)
IIS SubAuthentication - Magic? You bet it is...
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Deploying applications via MSI to IIS Servers
I recently received from a IIS administrator a message which posed a very good question. He asked, I develop a ASP.Net application that I “zip” into a single .msi to deploy to a web application server. I have 2 websites defined, each using a unique host header.
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ASP.NET 2.0, 1.1 Sharing Environments: Careful with your web.configs
We recently got a pretty typical question around ASP.NET’s 2.0 release and its influence on IIS installations using ASP.NET 1.1. The first thing you will notice when you have a failure that is caused by mismatches…
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Timeless Question about Installing IIS on a Non-System partition
A question was asked — Why does Microsoft still force customers to install as the webroot to the system partition (i.e. C:\inetpub) when all security-related documentation advises to not do this?