If broken it is, fix it you should

The other day I came across an issue where an ASP.NET site stopped responding and didn’t start serving requests again until the W3WP.exe process was restarted. We grabbed some memory dumps with debug diag before restarting the process to see what was Read More...

TechED Europe – Berlin -  9-13th of November This will be the 2nd time I present at TechED. Last time I had an absolute blast and heard some really  good speakers. I am still working with the TechED team on exactly what type of sessions I will Read More...

I recently had a customer that just moved from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2 (changing from IIS 7 to IIS 7.5) and after the move they got some weird forms authentication errors in the event log The problem They have two applications (MyWebApp and MyLoginWebApp) Read More...

Is it a plane, is it a bird, is it a UFO? Before you can delve into any kind of troubleshooting of an issue you need to thoroughly define it.  If you don’t you’ll probably end up spending a lot of time randomly gathering and looking at data that Read More...