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So, your IIS Manager comes up blank, too?
28 February 08 09:33 PM | jamesbl | 4 Comments   

Have you ever opened the IIS Manager MMC (quick shortcut - Start/Run/inetmgr) only to find it comes up completely blank? Also, keen eyes will notice it takes a lot longer for the MMC window itself to appear as well, when this problem occurs. This phenomena Read More...

Filed under: IIS, .NET, SharePoint

Script for enabling full IIS logging
03 February 08 08:23 AM | jamesbl | 4 Comments   

Nothing overly fancy, but useful enough to warrant sharing. This is something you can use to get your SharePoint farms set up to turn every IIS logging option on. The good news is each web site in a MOSS farm shares the same web site ID, so it should Read More...

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What Application Pool does this W3WP.EXE belong to?
22 February 06 04:58 AM | jamesbl | 21 Comments   

During the course of working through issues, I get asked at least twice a week how to determine which application pool maps to a particular worker process PID (Process ID) on a server. I suppose there are lots of ways to determine this, but here two that Read More...

Filed under: IIS

IIS6: "Supposed" Metabase Corruption
13 January 06 04:59 PM | jamesbl | 33 Comments   

Prologue (required boredom) I recently worked on an issue where the IIS Admin service would not start after a reboot. The customer had just finished installing a set of patches, and thought that might be related (we'll soon see that it wasn't related). Read More...

Filed under: IIS