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You may already that using "iisreset (server name) /restart" can restart IIS services on that remote server. But why such a command can give you this error message? >iisreset myserver /restart The RPC Server is unavailable. I go ahead and turn off...

There are a lot of questions on IIS.net forums about running Tomcat Connector on IIS. Sounds like in many cases such configuration will fail. I am not a Tomcat user, so it is not easy to check on the details, but just found this horrible notice published...

(For IIS 6 and above) Scenario 1: Performance Monitor (Perfmon) has been part of Windows for a long time, but if you have many application pools and only one of them experience high CPU or memory usage issue, how to use Perfmon to track its long term...

I know there were already lots of discussions about this topic, but as a .NET developer and support engineer, I really want to share some experience so that beginners can start easily. We should really pay attention to unhandled exceptions in our .NET...

We still need good tools to help troubleshoot SSL issues on IIS 7 and IIS 7.5. Then we have two choices, Use The Official SSL Diagnostics Tool for IIS 6 1. Turn on IIS 6 Compatibilities features on IIS 7.*. 2. Install SSL Diagnostics 1.1 for IIS 6. 3...

When you navigate to this KB article you will see it only applies to Windows XP SP2. But always it provides you a hint once you meet this problem with IIS and SP3. Well, there are already people complaining that even if replacing xpsp2 with xpsp3 step...

I need to move my sticky notes from one machine to another. But there is no import and export buttons for me to click. However, using Process Monitor I finally located my data and here is the tips, The data file is %systemdrive%\Users\<user name>...

Server Side Commands FTP 7.5 accepts the following FTP commands. 214-The following commands are recognized (* ==>'s unimplemented).     ABOR     ACCT     ADAT *     ALLO    ...

* Certificates on Web Servers * The first way is to create a key and certificate for the NLB domain name and then install it on both IIS servers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313299 In this way, the load balancer simply forward HTTPS traffic to web...

Well, the goodness of being a support engineer is that you can receive both “Holy Sh*t” and “Thanks a ton” from the same guy. IIS 7 does introduce a new custom error mode, as documented in the following article, How to Use HTTP Detailed Errors in IIS...

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 have been released for a long time. However, there are still some people asking whether their Vista or Server 2008 installation contains certain features. Well, Microsoft have the matrix published here for your reference...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Back in January my colleague Mai-lan blogged about IIS 7 .5 new features. One of them is the long-awaiting warm up feature for some users, as he wrote, Support for application...

If I were not a support engineer at Microsoft, obviously I could not know there are so many applications/programs crashing all around the world. So what to do when the application crashes on your machine when you need it the most? No, please don't burst...

How to capture IIS 7 worker process crash dumps without installing anything on the server ? This sounds like a tough question to answer, as Debug Diagnostics which is a very nice tool to use for such cases needs to be installed on the server before any...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. It is an interesting question about how to install only FTP server on Win 7 RC. But my research reveals a few interesting points. You can install only FTP server related...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. If you configure IE to work under offline mode, and then try to configure your WinINet applications to bypass/ignore that setting, please don’t use INTERNET_OPTION_IGNORE_OFFLINE...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Well, I guess most ASP.NET people know “Platform target” setting in a project. There are four options, Any CPU, x86, x64, and Itanium (aka IA64). When you are debugging a web...

Well, what if I want to serve files without extensions on IIS 7? A small test will give you a 404 error page, as this MIME type is not set up yet. So, why not go and add one rule? What! How can I add such as rule, if the file has no extension! Calm down...

Some guys asked how to log out when Windows authentication is used for a web site. A simple answer is to close the browser if you are using Internet Explorer. The explanation is available in this KB article, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264921 (where...

NDepend is a nice tool to analyze .NET codebase. I use its open source/trial edition for several projects. It was yesterday that I noticed its latest version crashed on Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64 only). As I have learned about debugging with WinDBG ...

I have been support engineer for almost a year, but I still find myself shallow in the field, as I cannot do dump analysis alone. This is an art of troubleshooting, but I bet obviously not everyone in the programming world would like to perform such a...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Follow these steps on an Exchange front-end server that communicates with a clustered Exchange back-end server. (Prepare the CustomErrors folder) Create an Active Server...

I would like to have a secure server, so why not block all unknown file extensions? I can easily achieve that by setting allowUnlisted to false in applicationHost.config file on <system.webServer\requestFiltering\fileExtensions> tag. But why I cannot...

Time flies so fast that I have been working at Microsoft for more than 6 months. I really enjoy my job, and feel very happy whenever I help the customers resolve those tough issues. Now our team has a blog set up to share our knowledge gained from daily...

When you thought the whole world is using multi-core micro-processor, remember that I still have a single-core computer at home. Likewise, we still see legacy web applications who use Access as database. But it is time to upgrade to a real powerful database...