New Post explaining impact of /3gb switch http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/01/30/Win2003-Server-is-hanging-intermittently-due-to-high-NPP-(non-paged-pool)-memory-usage.aspx

New post on Stream rendering failing for PDF Excel Docs after MS11-100 patch from Aspx pages http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/01/24/Stream-rendering-failing-for-PDF-Excel-Docs-after-MS11-100-patch-from-Aspx-pages.aspx Enjoy :)

How to Debug Handle leak (using !htrace) in w3wp.exe http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/01/23/How-to-Debug-Handle-leak-(using-!htrace)-in-w3wpexe.aspx

New Post on the block http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/01/20/IIS-7x-Different-ways-in-which-Kernel-Mode-Cache-would-be-flushed.aspx

Hope this helps you :) All About Security Advisory MS11-100 http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/01/14/All-About-Security-Advisory-MS11-100.aspx Script to detect if IIS and Asp.Net is installed http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/01/14/Script...

Helping my colleague- Mohammed on the issue where intermittently some of the asp pages start failing with Page Cannot be Displayed error. Started  looking through httperr for connection_refused error to see if its related to  Non page Pool memory...

Helping one of colleague from CWA team on the issue where browsing any static content[htm/jpg] is ending with blank white screen on the browser. That prompted me to look into IIS logs . Here we saw 500 0 1346. As the next troubleshooting step we configure...

It took me some time to figure out how to get appropriate dump on 64 bits boxes using adplus tool. Thought to share out it you: 1) You can use following CFG SCRIPT for capturing dumps StackOverFlow exception <ADPlus>    <!-- Add log...

Quickly helping my collegue-Isha in getting the count of applications in the given apppool [Crude way but it works] using Microsoft.Web.Administration API   Now the Default Website has 7 application spanned across different AppPools. I would like...

Quick post on how to dump out GUID value from the memory dump Fields:       MT    Field   Offset                 Type VT    ...

  Check out new Post on Visual Studio 2010 feature on our team blog : webtopics   http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2010/05/13/visual-studio-2010-my-favorite-features.aspx   Enjoy !

On the IIS 7 sometime you would find the SSL binding for the website has been deleted and not replaced, or has been deleted and replaced with invalid certificate info.  The problem occurs because of a legacy SSL certificate hash property interfering...

Hi, Today,I just wrote on !address –summary on webtopics.. Read More Enjoy!

Recently we have got many issue(s) reported while opening PDF file which are hosted on IIS 7.5 (windows 2008 R2). Same PDF file use to open up fine when hosted on IIS 6 (windows 2003) box. To solve this problem you have install hotfix mentioned in KB...

If you happen to see following exception intermittently and that is corresponding to after installing .NET 3.5 SP-1 Server Error in '/login' Application. Loading this assembly would produce a different grant set from other instances. (Exception from HRESULT...

I came across this really nice picture.   Enjoy!

Today I got a case where I was asked for a script to configure SMTP programmatically in IIS 7. To be precise requirement was to check [corresponding setting on IIS 7] for the “All except the list below” check box and add the IP’s to the Deny List programmatically...

Checking through the Kb article ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274149 ) “IIS supports the use of a Session ID cookie to track the current session identifier for a web session. However, .ASP in IIS does not support the creation of secure Session ID...

New issue on the block after installing KB 973917. Checking event viewer you would end up with Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1009 Date:  12/9/2009 Time:  10:55:01 AM User:  N/A Computer: WEBSERVER01...

Quick post on two new issue on the block related to Debugging/Breakpoint in Visual Studio 2008 After installing VS2008 SP1 , single stepping through code does not work, misses break points and generally, it is unpredictable and unusable.  It will...

Following my previous post after uninstalling IE 8 from the my Dell Vista Laptop and restoring back to IE 7  was of no help. IE 7 was also crashing as soon as I start typing URL in the address bar after opening where as Firefox crashes on opening...

On my home Vista laptop I got a weird problem with IE8 may be due to some malwares.Whenever I try to open IE 8 it prompts me ‘your last session closed unexpectedly ‘ blah blah . Clicking on either of option provided.It crashes iexplore.exe Fastest solution...

<Snip> When there is more than 1 server in web farm scenario it is an obvious choice to go for session out-of-proc either with SQL server or State server. While storing session with SQLServer if you see issues with SQL deadlock during peak loads...

Today using Logparser for parsing the ETL file.I did spend some time on filtering it right way to see the activity for specific time frame. Thought to share with you. In ETW file we’ve TimeStamp column that contains value like "2009-07-31 13:34:42"...

<Snip> Procdump is a light weight Sysinternal's command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during such spikes which an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause...