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IIS – Getting “Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool DefaultAppPool” – File Version Mismatch
Today, I was working with a customer of mine who had some problems in configuring a Virus Definitions Distribution Point for Symantec Live Update on IIS. Another module hosted on a different web-server has a button to test this distribution point, and we were seeing that the test on this………………..
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IIS7 – To be noted while using Expression Encoder to upload large files to IIS server
Internet is full of videos, and you have a power packed set of tools for IIS to make media streaming top-notch experience. You have IIS Media Pack enabling intelligent progressive downloads, smooth streaming, throttling, etc. You have tools from Microsoft such as Expression Encoder……..
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IIS7 – Improving ASP.NET performance (concurrent requests) while on Integrated Mode
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IIS7 – Configuring iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication using appcmd
As you know there is no UI to configure iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication in IIS7, it takes a little more time to configure the site for the same. Here is an article in the iis.net site which explains the steps one by one……………
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URLScan – rejecting the request depending on the User-Agent string
I just learned this now :-) You can now use the URLScan 3.1 with your own custom rules, and it would come handy in situations like rejecting a request based on the User-Agent string.
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IIS7 – (my) Improved Backup Restore Tool, and a UI Module
NOTE : Before you even read about this module, I want to mention that I do not work for IIS product team at Microsoft, but in Product Support for IIS and ASP.NET. This module/application is purely out of my interest, and this is not an official release by Microsoft and hence NOT supported by Microsoft Services.
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IIS7 - Getting HTTP 500.19 while accessing the website
I recently worked with one of my customer who was getting “HTTP 500.19” error while browsing the website.
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IIS7 Tweet #2: Modifying an existing binding for the website
appcmd.exe set config -section:system.applicationHost/sites /[name='Default Web Site'].bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='*:80:'].bindingInformation:"*:80:www.test.com" /commit:apphost
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IIS7 Tweet #1 : Setting UploadReadAheadSize
appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/serverRuntime /uploadReadAheadSize:"49152" /commit:apphost
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Problems with rendering the "Design" View for a simple asp.net website from Visual Studio 2008
I recently worked with one of my customer who when clicking on the "Design" view of an ASPX page, the designer window doesn't appear - blank page appears. And if you minimize the VS window, and maximize it again - we will see the desktop background in the place of the Designer surface.
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IIS7 – Search the complete IIS configuration store – in which web.config is your attribute configured
As you know IIS 7.0 configuration system is huge, broad, or whatever you feel like calling it. It no longer just exist in its main configuration file applicationHost.config (like Metabase.XML in IIS 6.0). It can be widely spread in any of the web.config files in the virtual directories, or applications.
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Configuring IIS to advise the browser render on different IE modes
You would have already read IIS support team’s blog about configuring IIS to send an additional header to the client which would make IE to run under EmulateIE7 mode. I would also suggest you to read this MSDN article which talks about the various IE8 display modes available, and their corresponding functionality.
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IIS7 and Twitter – a love story
It is a while that I wrote something as crazy as this one is. This is basically a windows service running in your web server which would tweet often about the heart beat of the web server and posts its status messages. For example, v1.0 of this application will tweet the below (you can configure the time interval on the config file):
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IIS7 – Viewing ISAPI Filters that are loaded inside the worker process
In IIS6 manager, you see a green arrow icon and a red icon against the ISAPI Filter’s list to indicate if the ISAPI Filter is loaded or not. That was possible because FilterStatus metabase key was updated after the ISAPI Filter is loaded inside the process.