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June 2006 - Posts

HOWTO: Monitor Virtual Server Events

I think Virtual Server Events and Asynchronous Tasks are two of the least utilized features of the Virtual Server Administration API. Contrary to the often-asked task of "find the VM, turn it off, manipulate its VHD, then turn it back on", which shows Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:14 AM by Anonymous | 9 Comments

Six Years...

Gosh, how quickly time flies by. It seems like yesterday when I was just getting started on this blog and typing out the entry for my 5-year anniversary at Microsoft. At that time, I had just finished doubling my number of blog entries, was in the midst Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:30 PM by Anonymous | 5 Comments
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Deploying and Updating Virtual Machines

The following are some of the more frequently asked questions when it comes to deploying a group Virtual Machines sharing common configuration. After updating the VHD and VMC, how to re-deploy the changes out to the group of physical machines After deploying Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:00 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments

HOWTO: Diagnose One Cause of "%1 is not a valid Win32 application" on IIS6 on 64bit Windows

Question: I have a new development server that i put together on a Windows 2003 64 bit machine. I also have SQL Server 2005 and Developers Studio 2005 and 2003 installed on this machine. I have executed the "Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1" command, as per the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:10 AM by Anonymous | 3 Comments
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HOWTO: Install and Run PHP on IIS7, Part 3

A short while ago, I came out with a small script to properly configure PHP for IIS7. Sure enough, I got asked to make a similar one for IIS6. So, I figure that while I am at it, I might as well cover IIS4, IIS5, and IIS5.1 as well since it is not very Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:15 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments

IIS Configuration Woes with ADSI, WMI, and VBScript

You know, configuration of IIS can be quite confusing, with the various interfaces, paradigms, and programming languages. However, if you keep your wits about you, you can avoid the common pitfalls... Question: I need help with the following code. I'm Read More...
Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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Anatomy of an Application Pool Crash

Question: Ok, I read through David Wang's Troubleshooting crashes thing and got the DebugDiag and I am able to reproduce the problem. If I select Hang, and type in one of the website addresses that we host on this server, the moment the Hang Test starts Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:00 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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HOWTO: Install and Run PHP on IIS7, Part 2

A couple of months ago, I wrote a quick and dirty entry on how to install PHP on IIS7. The main purpose of that entry was to explain the details of what was going on as well as cookie-cutter instructions of one way to successfully install PHP on IIS7. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:39 PM by Anonymous | 48 Comments

ISAPI Filter and the IIS6 Process Model

Question: In IIS6, is there a way to have a top-level filter run in a process space separate from each website's process space? Under IIS5, our filter has been used to store a large data cache to reduce the number of round trips to our database. Now, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:34 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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Much Ado About...

Nothing! Maybe it is just the summer-time lull, but I have not been terribly motivated to write anything lately. Alas, the IIS newsgroup has not been spawning anything interesting nor new in terms of issues either, and my private blog comments are starting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:43 AM by Anonymous | 12 Comments
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Be Weary of Stylish Fonts and Commandlines!

I see variations of this common "stylish" mistake all the time... so I will highlight it this one time. Question: Hi, according to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/69a58513-141a-4adb-b6bc-2aaad4ea77b8.mspx?mfr=true Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 12:15 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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Thoughts on Debugging IIS7

Hmm... it seems that ever since I made the blog entry about how to install PHP on IIS7, I seem to have become the default tech-support for PHP/IIS7 issues. That'll teach me to ever post beta guidance again - I just get more "help, I've fallen and I can't Read More...
Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 3:45 AM by Anonymous | 20 Comments
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Blog Spam, Part 2

Three months ago, I ranted in this blog entry about blog comment spam. Well, it appears that the arms race of allowing anonymous blog comments (which I deem highly important) has been steadily escalating, and the latest crop of blog comment spam are pretty Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:05 AM by Anonymous | 7 Comments
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Reflection 2006

About twelve months ago, I started to hit a comfort zone with blogging. I had written a lot of initial content the prior two months, started to get a small number of private blog comments as well as a handful of comments to various posts, and I paid attention Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:06 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments
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HOWTO: Enumerate IIS website and ftpsite configuration (VBScript using ADSI)

I recently got a request to make a script to illustrate how to enumerate useful values from both Web and FTP sites serviced by IIS, so I decided to make some additions to the original script tool located here to allow it to easily enumerate both Web and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:15 PM by Anonymous | 18 Comments

Back from Europe... amidst a flood of comments

Ok... I have just returned from my three week vacation in Europe. Jet-lag is kicking in about now, so I am going to sleep. I had a blast visiting London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, Luxembourg, and Amsterdam... I will get to observations about Read More...
Posted Monday, June 05, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments
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