I came across a new feature (well new to me) in the Event Viewer in Windows 7 (also in Vista and Windows Server 2008) recently that can be useful in troubleshooting various issues. The new Event Viewer now allows you to attach a task to a particular event...

I recently had a support case where the user was not able to browse to his web site from the web server itself. He was getting prompted for credentials 3 times and after entering valid credentials each time he received a 401.1 Logon Failed Error. We checked...

One of the things I am trying to accomplish with my blog, is to shed some light on some IIS/ASP.Net issues that may be very common but that I have seen manifested in some "not so common" ways. This post is about just one such instance. Unlike some of...

Well, here's a new one I ran across recently. My customer was trying to upload some files using Coldfusion by doing a simple post and was getting a HTTP 413 response when the files were larger than 128K. IIS6 uses a new metabase property called UploadReadAheadSize...

First off, there are many different things that can cause an Access Denied error in an application hosted in IIS. This post will cover a little known and "under documented" cause for this error called Loopback Check. IIS 5.1 and 6.0 added an additional...

Today I'd like to cover another issue that I have seen quite a few times in the past several weeks and one that has a very simple fix. The problem is that IIS will not serve ASP and ASP.NET pages after reinstalling IIS. The error that I most frequently...

I ran into an interesting issue the other day while helping one of our Support Engineers from Exchange. The customer was getting a 401.1 response when trying to browse a site with anonymous access only. Initially the SE from Exchange and I both had the...

Well, I must admit that my first stab at creating a simple ASP.NET 2.0 site that takes advantage of the new Membership features was wrought with peril. Actually it wasn't that bad but I did have a little trouble when I was attempting to add a new user...

After seeing this same issue 4 times in the last 2 days, I thought it would be a good idea to post it along with the very simple and quick solution. First, I would like to clear up what seems to be a common misconception among IIS administrators out...

I had a case yesterday where my customer was complaining that the Default Domain setting wasn’t working for him. For those of you who may not be aware, this setting allows the site admin to set the default domain users will be authenticated against when...

Inaugural Post!!! For my first entry, I thought it would be fitting just to give a brief introduction of myself and write a little blurb on the things I will cover on this site. My name is Jimmie Russ and I am a Developer Support Engineer for Microsoft...