The Way I See It

Techno gyan by Vijayshinva Karnure - Support Escalation Engineer (Microsoft)

The Messaging Engine failed to register the adapter for "SOAP"

While configuring an web service generated using the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard using...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/30/2013

BizTalk Terminator–DataAccess::RunExecutionAsync: Invalid column name

BizTalk Terminator is a very useful tool for troubleshooting common BizTalk issues. It also provides...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/23/2013

BizTalk–identifier ‘EDI’ does not exist in ‘Orchestration’; are you missing an assembly reference?

While working with EDI messages in Orchestrations you might get the following error message.  ...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/08/2013

AppFabric Cache–How to check if a region exists

In an AppFabric Cache you can segregate your cached data into regions. You create a region using the...

Author: Shinva Date: 04/29/2013

Tools To Simulate CPU / Memory / Disk Load

I have seen a lot of people searching for tools to simulate high CPU, Memory and Disk issues. Here...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/26/2012

Where is ASP.NET 4.5 …wait Where is .NET 4.5 ?

When .NET 3.5 was released a lot of people wondered why ASP.NET 3.5 wouldn’t show up in IIS....

Author: Shinva Date: 10/12/2012

IIS 8 What's new – Website settings

The two new additions in IIS 8 are Preload Enabled This setting is available if you have the...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/11/2012

IIS 8 What's new – Application pool settings

Here is a list of enhancements to Application Pools in IIS 8. Start Mode A few web applications take...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/09/2012

Windows 8 is the Super workstation OS I had been waiting for

Long back I had written a blog post about Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/06/2012

BizTalk–Map Incoming Message to a string Field

In a recent project I worked, one of the requirements was to copy the entire incoming message to a...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/02/2012

RFC_ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE. SapErrorMessage=Name or password is incorrect (repeat logon)

While trying to connect to a SAP server from Visual Studio - Consume Adapter Service,  you...

Author: Shinva Date: 09/27/2012

.NET 4.5 - Information of Caller Function (Caller Attributes in .NET 4.5)

While debugging code “Who called my function ?” is  a million dollar question. Knowing the...

Author: Shinva Date: 09/26/2012

Video – Configuring DebugDiag for process crash

This is a video on how you can use DebugDiag to monitor process crashes. crashfinal.zip

Author: Shinva Date: 09/06/2010

Fingerprinting IIS

  You can analyze the responses sent from a webserver to determine the version of IIS running...

Author: Shinva Date: 09/01/2010

MIB OIDs for IIS 6.0

Here is a list of the OID values related to IIS that you can query using SNMP....

Author: Shinva Date: 01/28/2010

64 bit IIS manager,32 bit worker process and root web.config settings

The IIS 7 manager provides a UI for almost all sections for the web.config. It does simplify things...

Author: Shinva Date: 12/04/2009

ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Manual Install / Uninstall

In case you have problems with the setup files for ASP.NET Debugger Extension you can manually...

Author: Shinva Date: 11/09/2009

ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Trace Process for Debug Events

With ASP.NET Debugger Extension you can also trace the process for events. This is actually a...

Author: Shinva Date: 11/05/2009

ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Find Debug Modules

ASP.NET Debugger Extension has an useful feature to find modules that are built in debug mode. You...

Author: Shinva Date: 11/05/2009

ASP.NET Debugger Extension for IIS 7

Just finished writing an extension for IIS 7 that will provide advanced debugging features for IIS...

Author: Shinva Date: 11/03/2009

IIS 7 FTPS module does not pick up the Firewall IP and Data Port Range settings.

I have seen at least 5 separate instances where users have complained that the FTP 7 module that...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/05/2009

SSL Diagnostics Tool for IIS 7

The SSL Diagnostics tool is a very useful tool for troubleshooting SSL issues.  It generates a...

Author: Shinva Date: 09/20/2009

FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 can be installed only on Windows Server 2008

On Windows 2008 RTM (SP1) you would install the FTP 7.5 Out Of Band module from...

Author: Shinva Date: 09/16/2009

You must use the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008 on a Windows 2008 R2 machine you may get the following...

Author: Shinva Date: 08/16/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 11 You can restrict SSL to only the Control Channel on FTPS

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been around even before I was born :) It is a good protocol for...

Author: Shinva Date: 07/07/2009

Disappearing SSL certificates from IIS 7.0 manager

“I install a SSL server certificate using the ‘Complete Certificate Request’...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/22/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 10 You can generate machine keys from the IIS manager

The machineKey element of the ASP.NET web.config specifies the algorithm and keys that ASP.NET will...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/13/2009

Setting SMTP RelayIpList from a script.

SMTP service running on IIS 6.0 provides you options to restrict IP addresses of computers that can...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/07/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 9 Set Application Pool Defaults…

When ever you create a new application pool IIS only asks you for four things 1. Name, 2. .NET...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/05/2009

Can the validity period of the Self-Signed Certificate that IIS 7.0 manager creates be changed ?

IIS 7.0 has a nice feature of creating self-signed certificates … very handy for creating...

Author: Shinva Date: 05/01/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 8 You can create Self-Signed SSL certificates from the IIS manager

IIS 7.0 manager has a nice feature of generating self-signed certificates that you can use for...

Author: Shinva Date: 04/29/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 7 You can use the application pool identity for the anonymous authentication credentials

When a client accesses a web site on anonymous authentication IIS uses a pre configured account to...

Author: Shinva Date: 04/03/2009

Getting better stack traces in Process Monitor / Process Explorer

Process Monitor and Process Explorer are great tools for troubleshooting issues on Windows machines....

Author: Shinva Date: 04/02/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 6 You can reset the TCP connection when “Service Unavailable” happens

Instead of returning the “Service Unavailable” message to the client you can terminate the TCP...

Author: Shinva Date: 04/01/2009

Caution while xcopying IIS 7.0 config files

Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a...

Author: Shinva Date: 03/13/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 5 Run a command when Rapid Fail Protection is triggered.

Rapid-Fail Protection disables application pools if they crash multiple times within in a specified...

Author: Shinva Date: 03/12/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 4 Application Pool Recycling Events has an UI

Tucked away in the IIS manager is an UI screen to configure the Events that get logged when an...

Author: Shinva Date: 03/09/2009

IIS 7 Tip # 3 You can now load the user profile of the application pool identity

IIS 6.0 does not load the user profile of the application pool identity. But with IIS 7.0 you now...

Author: Shinva Date: 03/08/2009

IIS 7 Tip #2 You can now run 32 bit and 64 bit applications on the same server

On a 64 bit Windows 2003 machine IIS 6.0 could either be run in 32 bit mode or 64 bit mode. You...

Author: Shinva Date: 03/06/2009

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...

Author: Shinva Date: 02/16/2009

Goodbye Network Service!

IIS 6.0 introduced a lot of features to increase reliability and security. As an architectural...

Author: Shinva Date: 02/13/2009

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...

Author: Shinva Date: 02/12/2009

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...

Author: Shinva Date: 02/01/2009

Metabase auditing on IIS 7.5

Metabase auditing is a very useful feature which allows us to track changes that are made to the IIS...

Author: Shinva Date: 01/20/2009

Report Viewer Toolbar does not render properly on IIS 7.0

I was recently working on a reporting web application that uses the Report Viewer ( ReportViewer )...

Author: Shinva Date: 01/14/2009

What’s different about Kerberos Authentication on IIS 7.0

On IIS 6.0 if your web application ran under a custom user account you would have to setup Service...

Author: Shinva Date: 01/06/2009

CertEnroll::Cx509Enrollment::p_InstallResponse: ASN1 bad tag value met. 0x8009310b

Recently while installing a SSL certificate on IIS 7.0 I got this error message...

Author: Shinva Date: 11/25/2008

Running the HTTPSSL service in a svchost.exe

On Windows 2003 the HTTPSSL service (the service that implements SSL) runs in the lsass.exe process....

Author: Shinva Date: 10/24/2008

Putting Live Mesh To Work with OneNote

A couple of days ago I enrolled to the Live Mesh Tech Preview and ever since have fallen in love...

Author: Shinva Date: 10/21/2008

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