Brad Kingsley's Blog
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How To Set Up Custom Error Pages In IIS 7
Here’s a great post by Jamie at OrcsWeb about setting up custom error pages in IIS7: This blog post will explain how to configure custom error pages in IIS (Internet Information Server). For this example we will be using IIS 7.5 …
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Using Powershell to list group membership from Active Directory (AD)
The following post by Terri, a Support Specialist with OrcsWeb managed Windows hosting, should prove to be very helpful for any administrators or developers looking to list group memberships from Active Directory. Below is just one example of the many …
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Troubleshooting Application Request Routing (ARR)
Troubleshooting ARR (Microsoft’s Application Request Routing solution) can be tricky at times. Here’s a great post by Jeff Graves from OrcsWeb with some tips on tracking down issues – specifically the especially-tricky 502.x errors. Troubleshooting ARR 502.3 Errors
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Magically Sync Machine Key for All Nodes in a Web Farm
Okay, well, it isn’t really magic – not even the Apple type – but it is pretty cool. Below is a post by OrcsWeb’s Jeff Graves providing a VERY handy script that can be used to instantly synchronize the machine …
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URL Scan or Request Filtering in IIS7
URL Scan has been a useful tool since Windows Server 2003, and continues to be used on many web server deployments. Did you know though that IIS7 includes a feature named Request Filtering that handles the same functionality as URL …
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Orchard: Custom Content in Sub-Folders
Orchard doesn’t seem to like anything in it’s web root except for it’s own content. Try it out – create a folder (I created /TestContent/) and then put a test from there (I created test.html) and try to access it. …
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Enable Caching in IIS to Speed Performance
Google’s various page speed testing tools seem to prefer browser caching set with at least a one week expiration set. That makes great sense to me! Setting a browser cache expiration tells the visitor’s browser that is is okay to …
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IIS 7.x Shared Configuration
Below is a guest post from Rick Barber, the Senior Support Specialist at OrcsWeb, a managed Windows hosting provider specializing in Windows cloud server hosting and dedicated Windows hosting. If you find the following to be useful, check out the link …
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Log Parser: Pulling Valuable Data From IIS Logs
Tweet Microsoft’s Log Parser is an awesome tool that justifies knowledge, if not even regular use, by both system administrators and web users alike. From the download site: “Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access …
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Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Tweet Below is a guest-post by Terri, one of the managed Windows support engineers at OrcsWeb. If you’ve ever run into the situation where you want to analyze performance data on Windows Server and don’t know what counters to collect …