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Reading IIS.NET Blogs (or any RSS) with Powershell

Being a member of the IIS team, I often find myself checking blog posts to see what the members of the product team are blogging about. However, since Powershell came out, I find myself doing more and more work on my scripts. It's a bit annoying to have
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IIS 7 Logging UI For Vista - Download Now

As many of you already know, the management console for IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista does not have a UI for logging. Since this was a pain point for several customers, I decided to test out the extensibility APIs by creating a logging UI module. ( continued

Extending Microsoft.Web.Administration through PowerShell (Part II)

In my previous post , I showed you how easy it was to leverage your knowledge of the IIS 7 managed SDK in Windows PowerShell. We loaded the IIS 7 managed assemblies and then traversed the object model to display site information and stop application pools.
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Accessing Microsoft.Web.Administration through PowerShell (Part I)

I've caught the PowerShell bug. In between stints with my ever-expanding code samples, I play with PowerShell a lot. I thought I'd share a quick example of how to load Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and use it to perform some basic tasks. Note: I'm
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Where can I find <feature x> in IIS 7.0 ?

Question : Where can I find Windows Authentication in IIS 7.0 ? I've seen this question or questions like this asked numerous times so I thought it would make a nice quick -- and hopefully useful -- blog post. In previous versions of IIS, administrators
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Steve Wozniak ... at Microsoft?

I know it may sound very strange coming from a Microsoft employee, but last Friday I found myself in awe while I sat directly in front of Steve Wozniak while he gave a presentation ... on Microsoft campus. ( continue )
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Unsafe thread safety

As I stated in my last post, for the past two days I've been sitting in Jeffrey Richter's threading class. The class is near the end and I can't say that a lot of new concepts have been taught. Another student and I have decided that the class should
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Back in business...

I haven't blogged for some time now. This in large part has been due to heavy workload, close deadlines, and the fact that I was alone in my workload. Over the past few weeks, I've been able to get my head above water. While our open position on the team
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Why am I smiling?

I moved to Redmond just over four months ago. In the time I have been here, my rental car was side-swiped, my truck was broken into, my headlight and bumper were damaged by someone in our own parking garage, someone stole my copy of " Professional Visual
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Looking left and turning right: management style

Today, I was returning from my manager's office to my own when I nearly collided with another manager-type in the hall. As I was approaching a hallway intersection, a manager emerged in a bit of a hurry looking to the left while she was turning to the
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SDK Sample: Programmatically change the runtime version of an application pool in IIS 7

I have posted a new sample on IIS.NET demonstrating how to programmatically change the managed runtime version of an application pool in IIS 7.0. I have posted code in VB.NET and C#. Enjoy.
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Communication breakdown: internal spam affects productivity

When I interviewed with Microsoft, I was asked, "What is one thing we can count on you to do at Microsoft?" My reply was brief: " You can count on me to complain ." My interviewer suddenly took on the puzzled look that an interviewee would normally take
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Security: There's incompetence, and there's major incompetence

It's one type of incompetence to keep the personal identifiers and financial data of customers on your laptop and then lose it -- twice ; It's an entirely different type of incompetence that allows government data to be compromised through a network.
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ADO.NET 2.0 Boot Camp

Sahil Malik , a prolific speaker, Microsoft MVP and author of " Professional ADO.NET 2.0 " is holding a one-day ADO.NET boot camp in Charlotte next month. If you are in the area, I think this class will definitely give you your money's worth. Sahil has
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Workaround: Adding a script map in IIS 5.1

I was contacted by a customer who commented that he could not add a Script Map to IIS 5.1. After selecting his executable for the script map and adding his extension, the "OK" button was still disabled -- preventing him from committing the script map
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