Scott Forsyth's Blog
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Web Deployment Tool released to web (RTW)
The final release of the Web Deployment Tool (aka Web Deploy or MsDeploy) has been released to the web. This is likely more significant than many people realize.
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Understanding Reverse Proxy Servers – and the Mailman
Ok, the goal isn’t to learn about the mailman, but he’s going to come in handy later.
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Visual Studio 2010 1-Click Publishing
When it comes to deploying websites, many developers and companies have unique and creative ways to handle deployment. While some have fully workable solutions, I believe that there is a lot of room for growth to bring powerful and straight forward publishing tools to the masses and to support mature publishing methods for simple and complex sites alike.
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Visual Studio 2010 1-Click Publish Hosting at ORCS Web
With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 released and available as a free download, we at ORCS Web have joined with Microsoft to provide a free testing account so that you can see for yourself how the Publish feature works for remote publishing.
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IIS 7 Compression. Good? Bad? How much?
If you haven't properly leveraged compression in IIS, you're missing out on a lot! Compression is a trade-off of CPU for Bandwidth. With the expense of bandwidth and relative abundance of CPU, it's an easy trade-off. Yet, are you sure that your server is tuned optimally? I wasn't, which is why I finally sat down to find out for sure. I'll share the findings here.
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New IIS 7 Configuration Reference
Whether programmer or administrator, we're always looking for details on certain ASP.NET or IIS configuration settings, and sometimes we come up wanting because of lack of good documentation.
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Web Farms - How to tell which node is being served
I work with web farms on a daily basis, and one of the requirements that I run into, for testing, troubleshooting and logging, is to tell which node is handling a specific request.
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IIS, Windows Authentication and the Double Hop issue
In IIS, you run into an interesting situation when you need to access another resource off of the IIS server and certain fairly common situations occur. When using Integrated Security, anonymous access is disabled, and impersonation is turned on, a security measure kicks in and doesn't allow your site to access resources on any network servers. This includes access to a UNC path directly from IIS or SQL Server using Windows authentication.
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Application Pool Recycles from IIS 7 Setting Changes
I've written a couple times about what configuration changes cause AppDomain recycles. Most recently how the ASP.NET tab causes a server-wide AppDomain recycle, and previously about changes in ASP.NET 2.0.
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ASP.NET tab in IIS, more dangerous than it first appears!
This blog post was a long time coming and fortunately doesn't apply to IIS7, but I thought I would finally take a few minutes and cover this shortcoming with the ASPNET tab that ASP.NET 2.0 introduced into IIS 6 and IIS 5.