Rakki Muthukumar

In IIS6, this was a pain area. On a 64-bit Windows 2003 Server, you cannot run worker processes in both 32-bit mode and as well as 64 bit mode. Either only one of them was possible. This was possible by the below Metabase Key which would be applied to...

In IIS6, we had a separate node in the left pane to add/view/delete "Web Services Extensions". Here in IIS7 manager, it is presented as the "ISAPI and CGI Restrictions" and you can find this on the global level Features view: Click on the Computer name...

I was looking around for a simple example which would just do a object serialization to a JSON format, and then deserializing back to the original object. I found few examples on MSDN, but did seem to be too long to try. Here I’ve given a simple code...

In IIS 7, you can control the detailed error messages being sent to the clients. By default, the detailed error messages can be viewed only by browsing the site from the server itself. But, this is dangerous because Detailed errors may contain about...

In my previous post, I talked about a new feature in IIS 7 which allows the website developers (or owners) to change the default website themselves without engaging the administrator again and again. In this post, I am going to explain how to do that...

I will be discussing about configuring HTTPS for a website on IIS 7. The UI of the IIS manager in IIS 7 is completely different from that of IIS 6. Initially it will look as if you are going to use a brand new product which you are trying for the first...

In IIS6, it was with the website properties --> HTTP Headers. Here in IIS7, you can do this on the "HTTP Response Headers" feature on the website. Select the website in the Connections pane. Double click on the "HTTP Response Headers" feature in the...

Problem IIS Services are not starting Symptoms You may see the following events in the System Event log: Event 7024 from Service Control Manager - The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0x8021080A...

I have written about how to configure a website for HTTPS here . In this post, I will explain how to force HTTPS for any website. 1. Open IIS7 Manager UI. 2. Expand the Web Sites in the Connections pane and select the Web site. 3. In the Features...

Today, I was working with a customer of mine who had some problems in configuring a Virus Definitions Distribution Point for Symantec Live Update on IIS. Another module hosted on a different web-server has a button to test this distribution point, and...

Problem You get “HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error” while browsing any file under a website or virtual directory whose home directory is a UNC. You will also see in IIS logs, the sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status as 500 16 1326. Cause...

Recently I worked on an issue with my customer who had a 64 bit Windows 2003 Server. He told that he installed some software which works on IIS and he started getting "Service unavailable" message for all his websites. All his application pools were crashing...

ISAPI Filters can be written to do anything on the incoming requests; it could do some kind of logging, user authentication, traffic analysis, much more. You can design you own ISAPI filter for your own need. Here is what I have done in the sample ISAPI...

If you were a ASP.NET 1.1 developer, and faced some performance problems, I’m sure you would have come across the KB 821268 which talks about tweaking maxWorkerThreads, maxIoThreads in the <processModel>, minFreeThreads, minLocalRequestFreeThreads...

This is often a question that has been asked a lot of times, and I couldn’t find an article which outlines the steps to be followed to enable a custom ISAPI extension in IIS7 (and above). You really don’t need to do anything other than the steps below...

403.18 : “The Specific Request Cannot Be Executed from Current Application Pool.” I came across this issue with one of the customer. He is trying to configure custom error pages. His app architecture is like this... he has a errors folder where he...

As I told you earlier, IIS7 is a best friend to the developers. Administering websites through code was made very simple by Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll present in the %windir%\system32\inetsrv folder. In this post, let us see a simple command prompt...

A complete understanding of everything is very important in the programming world. I am taking this post to just give some explanations I know and the understanding I have with the Virtual Functions. This is an explanation given by one of the trainer...

You might see that there is no UI way to take backup, restore backup. Only available way (till Windows 2008 Server RC0) is by the AppCmd tool. Below are the commands to do that: appcmd add backup "backupname" appcmd restore backup "backupname...

Most common support incidents we come across is the kerberos delegation issues. So I would like to list down the steps that need to followed for configuring IIS for the kerberos delegation. General steps to be followed on the IIS machine Make sure...

The DropDownList of ASP.NET gets rendered as html <select>, and everyone knows this. You click on the dropdown, and you will see the elements, and sometimes the vertical scrollbar. Every browser has it’s own value which determines the item...

When the ASP.NET AJAX Functionality is not working on a web page, it is usually due to the fact that the javascript needed for AJAX is not sent to the client from the server for some reason. ‘Sys’ is undefined. You might see this error message when there...

Today, one of my customer came up with an error message. He was getting "No such interface supported" when he did an IISRESET. I was not able to reproduce his issue on our box here. C:\WINNT\system32>iisreset No such interface supported I...

Today I worked on a case where the customer was getting Error ' 8002801d ' Library not registered. The fix for this error was a pretty simple one. Just re-registered the asp.dll CMD> CD C:\WINDOWS\System32\Inetsrv CMD> regsvr32 asp.dll If you get...

I was working with one of our partner who want to migrate 30+ sites from an existing IIS6 server, to a new IIS6 server. We had an old tool IIS6 Migration Tool which would come handy, but this would be requiring 30 steps to migrate 30 websites one by one...