Tobin Titus

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

Tobin Titus — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IIS 7 Logging UI For Vista - Download Now

Tobin Titus — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Tobin Titus — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:46:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Accessing Microsoft.Web.Administration through PowerShell (Part I)

Tobin Titus — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Where can I find in IIS 7.0 ?

Tobin Titus — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Steve Wozniak ... at Microsoft?

Tobin Titus — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT

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 )...(read more)

Unsafe thread safety

Tobin Titus — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Back in business...

Tobin Titus — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Why am I smiling?

Tobin Titus — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Looking left and turning right: management style

Tobin Titus — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SDK Sample: Programmatically change the runtime version of an application pool in IIS 7

Tobin Titus — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:02:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Communication breakdown: internal spam affects productivity

Tobin Titus — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Security: There's incompetence, and there's major incompetence

Tobin Titus — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:11:00 GMT

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....(read more)

ADO.NET 2.0 Boot Camp

Tobin Titus — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Workaround: Adding a script map in IIS 5.1

Tobin Titus — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:15:00 GMT

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...(read more)