Brad Kingsley's Blog
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Does anyone manually install IIS anymore?
Microsoft has made installing – and doing the initial base configuration of – Internet Information Services (IIS) ridiculously easy by using the Web Platform Installer (WebPI). Open WebPI, select Products in the top menu bar, then select Server in the …
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Handler "PHP5x_via_FastCGI" has a bad module "FastCgiModule" in its module list
Below is a guest post by Desiree at OrcsWeb with an IIS/PHP/CGI troubleshooting tip: I installed WordPress for one of our managed clients recently, and what should have been a simple install, turned into quite a bit of troubleshooting. The …
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Three Helpful .NET / IIS SMTP Posts
These are some of the most popular posts on my site so I figured I’d put them into a single link making it easy to find and deal with them together. People are generally interested in sending email via ASP.NET …
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Can you run WordPress on Windows? Sure, it works great!
Did you know that WordPress works – and works great – on Microsoft Windows? Sure, WordPress runs on top of PHP and MySQL, which are commonly thought to be related to Linux, but they work perfectly on Windows Server also. …
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Some great WordPress optimization tips
http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/02/07/web-performance-optimization-automation/
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Using LogParser to Check Visitor IPs to a Certain Page
Today I noticed we were getting an increasing amount of spam on one of our form pages. I was curious to see if all of the user IP addresses were the same (in which case I’d just add them to …
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Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8
Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 isn’t as hard as you might think. At least it isn’t as hard as I thought! Server Core can be intimidating to long-time Windows users who expect to see the comfortable familiarity of …
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Linking spam sent through shared IIS SMTP server to a user
Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a runaway process performing the abuse)? Well, it takes …
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PUT/POST/DELETE Verb Errors On Site
A client was getting errors when using PUT/POST/DELETE verbs on their web application recently. The errors he was seeing were: After some troubleshooting the error was isolated to the fact that WebDav was installed on the server and was intercepting …
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Configuring Microsoft’s SMTP Service to allow relay
My recent post on Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008 helps people get up-and-running with a local SMTP service to support the sending of emails from code (i.e.: C# Sample For Sending Emails). Just getting the …