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April 2006 - Posts

Stop fiddling with the Keyboard Layout!

I swear... sometimes, I wonder what the MS Hardware Group which works on keyboards is thinking. As I see it, they have a really simple job - find and keep the keyboard layout that works for the users, and lead/innovate/maintain with the technologies behind Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 30, 2006 4:55 AM by Anonymous | 21 Comments
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Taking a break. Eurotrip

In two weeks, I will be heading off to Europe for a three week vacation touring Denmark, northern Germany, Benelux, with a brief stop through London. No worries... I am going to queue up treatises of some very interesting topics as blog entries inside Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 10 Comments
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HOWTO: Run Console Applications from IIS6 on Windows Server 2003, Part 2

I finally have enough blog entries about various portions of IIS6 request processing that I can stitch together this meta-blog-entry explaining how it all works together and then apply it towards an issue. You probably want to keep a link to this loaded Read More...
Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 4:30 AM by Anonymous | 44 Comments

Why Clicking a hyperlink can result in multiple requests to web server(s)

Question: Dear Experts, If you could share your opinions or point out some reference links, I do appreciate! My web server: IIS and SharePoint Portal server 2003 My qestion is: After I click one hyperlink in a page (ASP.NET site) using IE, why there are Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:56 AM by Anonymous | 3 Comments
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IIS Diagnostics Toolkit a la carte nears release, Third Time the Charm?

Ok... getting the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit a la carte MSIs released is really becoming a full blown soap opera that never wants to end. I last mused about it in this blog entry , and all I can say now is that despite having no development work done on Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 11:50 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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One way to Reduce the Size of IIS Log Files

Question: Hi David We're seeing the usual trauma of massive log files as the result of increased traffic. We've recently crossed the line from where this was inconvenient to where it has become a serious problem. Our "quick and dirty" solution was to Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 1:30 AM by Anonymous | 6 Comments
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Is IIS6 AWE Aware?

Question: Hi all, As suggested by the subject; is IIS coded to use AWE, so that it can access memory above 4GB on a Windows 2003 (Enterprise Edition) Server? If so, is there a configuration option I need to set to enable this behaviour? Many thanks for Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 4:07 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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Is it ok to Change the IIS6 Service User Account?

Sigh... security continues to befuddle users... because why would you change the Service User Account from LocalSystem to Local Administrator? Not only is the action unsupported, but the configuration does not work, and it does not help system security... Read More...
Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 7:15 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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SiteBuilder Contest for Students

I do not do these advertisements often... because I rather be an information producer and not necessarily a conduit. But, sometimes, I wager I should try to be a good corporate citizen... I had worked with John before on the Web Based Shared Hosting Accelerator Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:15 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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HOWTO: Retrieve Request Headers using ISAPI, ASP, and ASP.Net

Developers frequently confuse Request Headers, Response Headers, and Server Variables as well as the appropriate syntax to retrieve/manipulate each of them, depending on the API (ISAPI, ASP, and ASP.Net). I am going to clarify all of this right now. :-) Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:00 AM by Anonymous | 31 Comments

Sitting in with the WiX "team"

I had a chance to sit in with the WiX "team" on their weekly Tuesday night "meeting" where the majority of the heavy-lifting of WiX development happens. For those of you who think that Microsoft cannot "get stuff done" ... you should see how WiX works. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:50 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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HOWTO: Perform VHD Maintenance Automatically

Question: I would like to have a night script to run on guest machines and perform the following tasks: 1. start / restore from saved state if machine is not running (preferably disconnected from network in order to preserve resources) 2. run on the guest Read More...
Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 6 Comments

Help! My Business Requirement: Security Vulnerability Needed

Ahh... such an innocuous requirement - "I want to allow my User to easily click on a link and directly install Software from a Web Page - without all the confusing IE security hoopla popping up and possibly failing to allow Installation if your Software Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:00 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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HOWTO: Get Field Data for Custom Logging with ISAPI Filter

Question: I'm trying to write a Filter that handles writing a W3C-compliant log file based on a special set of criteria. I have found most of the needed information in GetServerVariables(), but I still need the following things: sc-status: The status Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:25 PM by Anonymous | 10 Comments

Why IISADMIN Service Starts on Reboot even when set to Manual Startup

Question: I have a Windows XP SP2 machine that requires IIS running only sometimes, so I set these service to Manual startup (I use a script to start them when I need them): IIS Admin Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) World Wide Web Publishing However Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 6 Comments

IIS7. Product or Platform

IIS has always had an identity crisis. Is it a platform for hosting and building web applications, or is it a web server product? Well, for the first time in IIS product history (that I am aware of, anyways...), IIS is treated more like a product with Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:34 PM by Anonymous | 13 Comments
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HOWTO: Maximize the Number of Concurrent Connections to IIS6

Question: I'm considering building a realtime ASP.NET application on IIS6, that'll need to support about 3,000 simultaneous users on a server, each with a keep-alive HTTP connection for "server push." The HTTP connection will need to stay open for the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 57 Comments

ASP.NET Atlas

I know that ASP.Net Atlas strays a little bit from my usual topics and focus, but I have to rave about cool things when I see it. :-) If you have yet to watch Scott take a lap around ASP.Net Atlas and show how insanely easy it is to build standards-conforming Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:30 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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Thoughts on IIS Memory Recycling for 3rd party Applications

Sigh... it seems that the Application Health Monitoring features added in IIS6 are merely used by VARs to cover up for their own mistakes instead of leaving it in the user's control as a crutch to fall back on when 3rd party web applications fail. Question: Read More...
Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 11:50 PM by Anonymous | 11 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 Support Messaging

Question: I am curious to know what this message is about: "You should use Microsoft Windows XP Professional as a host operating system only in a non-production environment." What does the non-production environment mean and is it recommended to set up Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:29 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments

HOWTO: Run Console Applications from IIS6 on Windows Server 2003

Question: I need some help on the following: I am trying to exectute the netstat comand in side a PHP script using PHP on a wnidows server 2003. The problem is that i am haveing a problem getting the netstat command to exec since it requires adminstration Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 4:34 AM by Anonymous | 9 Comments

IIS7. Team Photo

For those of you who enjoy photos and putting faces to names... here is one of the entire IIS7 PM, Development, and Test team. Fortunately, the weather Thursday afternoon was pretty agreeable, so the picture came out well. Random Factoids: For the curious Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:59 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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IIS6 and HTTP Server API, Part 1

Question: Hi, I've found these articles: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q311852 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q327611 First of all I've got a question. READ_RAW_DATA can be used to modify the request Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 4:15 AM by Anonymous | 9 Comments

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is Free!

Hurray... one of my favorite technologies, Virtual Server, is now freely available for download at this location . I suggest that everyone go grab a copy and install it. Especially if you have VMWare. ... except if you are running XP Home for your "production" Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:51 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments
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HTTP.SYS, IIS, and the 100 continue

Question: Hi David, "My Company" is a leading middleware provider for mobile multiplayer games. Cutsomer like Disney, THQ etc. The backend is built on .NET. We went live in the US with W2K3/IIS6 which is great. But we have a major IIS6 issue. The handsets Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:20 AM by Anonymous | 23 Comments

HOWTO: Install and run PHP on IIS7

Question: Hi all, I have trouble to configure PHP 5 (CGI mode) in IIS 7 on Vista 5308... What I did: - Download and unpack PHP - set user permission to PHP folder AND script folder (IIS_IUSRS and Internet Guest Account) - in IIS Manager: Added pages in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:56 AM by Anonymous | 66 Comments

Thoughts on Changing Response Content Type

Question: Hi I´m using IIS 5 with ASP NET 2.0. I´ve develop an isapi application. the response content type its text/hml it´s posible chaged to text/xml thanks Answer: In general, the handler which generates the response should own its Content-Type because Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 3:18 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
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