Tim Ammann's Blog
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IIS Media Services, Windows Media Services, or Windows Azure Media Services?
Microsoft now has three major media serving technologies, two on-premises: IIS Media Services and Windows Media Services -- and one in the cloud: Windows Azure Media Services. Each of these has a plethora of features, so you might wonder:
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ASP.NET and IIS Performance Troubleshooting Tools: FREB, Perfecto, and PerfView
If you have an ASP.NET application running on IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 that is experiencing intermittent delays, you have three powerful troubleshooting tools at your disposal that you might not have known about: FREB, Perfecto, and PerfView.
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Web Deploy "Starter" Commands for Common Scenarios
If you are new to Web Deploy and want to get up to speed quickly with its usage and syntax, here are a dozen tasks based on common scenarios and some command syntax that you can use to implement them. First, a word about designating remote computers.
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Default Web Server Role Services in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
When you use Server Manager to install the Web Server (IIS) role in Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, you are presented with roughly 40 role services to select from, relatively few of which are selected by default.
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Web Deploy vs. Robocopy
The Web Deployment Tool contains two providers that can be used for directory copy and file copy operations: dirPath and filePath, respectively. The dirPath provider can copy directory contents, whereas filePath can be used only on single files.