February 2009 - Posts

16 February 2009
IIS 7 Tip #1 Finding all the web.configs

Often during troubleshooting we need to figure out the locations of all the web.config files that could potentially affect a web application. With IIS 7.0 the configuration is now decentralized and settings could be spread out over a bunch of config files. Read More...

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13 February 2009
Goodbye Network Service!

IIS 6.0 introduced a lot of features to increase reliability and security. As an architectural change the worker process w3wp.exe was introduced. To increase security IIS 6.0 by default launched the worker process using the NTAuthority\Network Service Read More...

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12 February 2009
SCCM 2007 Charting functionality does not work on 64 bit IIS

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) has a nice functionality of displaying report data as charts. When deployed on a 64 bit IIS 6.0 machine these chart displays may stop working and you will start getting the following error message. This report Read More...

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01 February 2009
WebBaseEvent.Raise method fails in Application_Start event with a NullReferenceException on IIS 7.0

If you implement custom health monitoring events in ASP.NET chances are that you should have worked with WebBaseEvent or WebErrorEvent classes and used the WebBaseEvent.Raise() method to fire those events. Recently an interesting issue related to this Read More...

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