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February 2006 - Posts

Why IIS6 Application Pool Recycle Events are not logged

Question: Hi, I would like IIS to log application pool recycle events. I followed this article http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/87892589-4eda-4003-b4ac-3879eac4bf48.mspx restarted IIS and even rebooted the machine Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:00 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments
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Why IIS6 can send invalid HTTP Responses

Question: Hello All, My client has a IIS 6.0 with some static pages configured in it. My application is a middleware that sits in between the browser client and the IIS 6.0 Web server. Now, my problem is that IIS 6.0 is always sending Responses without Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:01 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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IIS Diagnostics Toolkit a la carte

Last month, after more than a half year of wranging with the Windows OOB process , we finally released the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit, "full-monte" version . At that time, we promised to release the "a la carte" MSIs for each constituent of the IIS Diagnostics Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 7:00 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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HOWTO: Run IIS6 in native Worker Process Isolation Mode

Question: I've got a box running fine these days, but now I want to experiment a bit. I have a long-running .asp page and I want to change the application pool settings for it. But when I go to the IIS console, there is no entry in the tree for Applicaiton Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 12:05 AM by Anonymous | 3 Comments
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Weekend at the Washington Wineries

Lately, I have been a bit more focused on doing my day job of working on IIS7... Yeah yeah, I got my office back in order after the move, so I wager I should put the time to some good use. Actually, I just haven't encountered a blog topic during this Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:15 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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Office Move 2006, Part 2

I finally got around to setting up and re-arranging my office after the completion of the Office Move. Like Wade, I spend the extra time and effort to disassemble all wires of my computers prior to moving and reassemble them myself after the move. My Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:30 PM by Anonymous | 13 Comments
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The TiVo Desktop

After years of using plain TiVo Series 2 (and being pretty satisfied with it), I decided to try out their next logical procession - the TiVo Desktop 2.2. My primary motivation is to free up space on the TiVo box to allow me to record shows through a weekend Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:57 PM by Anonymous | 6 Comments
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Office Move 2006

For the next several days (through the weekend), the entire IIS team has been evicted from our offices as movers shuffle many of us around in preparation for that big unified push to ship IIS7. So, we are all looking at a 4+ day weekend... In some senses, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:57 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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More on Virtual Memory, Memory Fragmentation and Leaks, and WOW64

I found myself writing a very long response to a recent comment to this blog entry , so I decided to make it into a blog entry and link the two. Question: Thanks for the info. Sorry i was not clear. I am recycling the memory based upon the virtual memory Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:59 PM by Anonymous | 18 Comments
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Why ISAPI Filters can load in some but not all websites on a Domain Controller

I recently encountered this question from multiple users simultaneously, and while the behavior looks bizarre, the answer is equally peculiar... so I thought it nice to share this little gem... Question: Hi All, I have an isapi filter that works correctly. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 4:00 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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Blog Upgrade, Part 2

Since the last time I blogged about the blogs.msdn.com upgrade , a lot of things have improved and bug fixes made... to the point that I am now very happy with the upgrade. I have gotten over the growing pains and like the new set of features very much. Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:25 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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HOWTO: Retrieve and Interpret ISAPI Filter Status

Question: Is there way to script a check on the success or failure of the Filter, ie a vbscript object that contains the state of loaded DLL's? One can get the list of filters installed from the metabase, but how would one get the state? The metabase Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 11, 2006 4:00 AM by Anonymous | 1 Comments

Does IIS6 truncate HTTP headers at a hard-coded limit?

Question: Using IIS the HTTP_ACCEPT header server variable received from the client appears to have a hard coded limit of 259 characters. This is causing problems when using a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone which has a longer string than 259 characters which Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 10:50 PM by Anonymous | 12 Comments

Can I write an ISAPI Filter using Managed Code?

Question: Hi, Is it possible to write an ISAPI filter equivalent (IHttpModule imlementation?) using managed code? I want my filter to get invoked for non .NET applications a well. thanks Answer: Unfortunately, you cannot [yet] write an ISAPI Filter equivalent Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 9 Comments
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HOWTO: Address random 403 errors that cause images to not display

Question: We are running IIS 5.0 on Win XP Pro, with dual core processors and 1 GByte of memory. Many of the HTML pages being served reference lots of small jpgs (between 20 and 50). We have had our site up for a few months, with no problems. Recently, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 5:35 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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ASP Startup/Shutdown Anomalies on IIS6?

Question: This was posted earlier in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general; it was suggested I ask these questions here... In trying to improve the throughput of a classic ASP app I wrote a few years ago, I added monitoring to the application and session Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:30 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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On IIS Team Blogging

I was randomly browsing blogs on blogs.msdn.com following the recent Community Server upgrade, and I happened upon the newly started blog of a friend of mine on the Sparkle (aka "Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer" or EID) team. I thought "cool... Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 2:30 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments
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HOWTO: Sharepoint and CustomAuth, Part 1 - Soliciting Questions

I have been getting a bunch of private requests from many people asking me variations of the following questions: "I want to use Sharepoint, but I want user authentication to be done with CustomAuth [or their own Wildcard Application Mapping ISAPI DLL]. Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 4:15 PM by Anonymous | 41 Comments
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Lumiere

Ok, this is something non-techie and more "off-topic" than usual, but hey, I think it is still "in-character" when it comes to me... I'm in a wacky, experimental mood at the moment (well, more than usual), so I'll give this a try. If it doesn't work out... Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 04, 2006 4:08 AM by Anonymous | 7 Comments
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Unicode and ISAPI Filters

Question: How can one use GetHeader api of PHTTP_FILTER_PREPROC_HEADERS to retrieve fields, such as "url" and others, in unicode? I could not find any documentation on this topic. Thanks a lot, Answer: It is not possible to retrieve a value in Unicode Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 11:56 PM by Anonymous | 17 Comments
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ASP Application, Large Memory Needs, and 64bit IIS6

Ok... I still have not gotten around to writing that uber blog entry/guide on the ins and outs of 64bit IIS6 and WOW64... so I wager I should take little bites here and there as motivation. Writing big long technical articles that try to answer lots of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:58 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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