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In my previous post , I wrote about using FREB to troubleshoot a simple error message to identify the module which sets the error. For this post, let’s assume we are troubleshooting a slow running page (any page, be it aspx, asmx, html, etc). Not always
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Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he
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FREB (Failed Requests Tracing – formerly known as Failed Request Event Buffering) is one of the nicest features released with IIS7 which would come in handy during troubleshooting. It does request based tracing, and produces a log file (in .xml format)
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The following article is an excellent reference when trying to figure out how to set SPN’s for your IIS Site. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929650 I wanted to focus on the SPN helper script in the article, and how it can be used in a very simple way
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Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file
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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
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I was recently working on a reporting web application that uses the Report Viewer ( ReportViewer ) control that ships with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The Report Viewer control was rendering perfectly when I was developing using Visual Studio
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Thanks to Robert Patrick for submitting these issues There have been some issues recently where users complain of SSL connections suddenly no longer working with IIS7. Users can connect to IIS7 websites over http://, but browsing to https:// fails with
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Most people on installing .NET 3.5 on the server "expect" an entry for v3.5 under the ASP.NET version Tab in IIS manager. And not finding that entry start panicking. If you have been one of those read on. The more tech savvy folks try
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After sending an HTTP request to an IIS server, an HTTP client (such as Internet Explorer) may display the following type of error message in the browser window: If Internet Explorer’s Friendly HTTP Error Messages option is turned off, the error may resemble
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Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to discuss how to mask an IIS server’s IP address from being sent as part of an HTTP response. By default, IIS can send a server’s IP address in the Content-Location or Location response headers of a response.
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If you are a Server Core fan, and wished you could host ASP.NET websites in Server Core, then feel better, you wish had come true. Windows Server 2008 R2’s Server Core will have .NET Framework which means, ASP.NET too. This is a big news for all those
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Special thanks to Sean Everhart for contributing this topic Internet Explorer 8.0 introduces a new method of interpreting and displaying the HTML data sent from web servers. In some cases, this can result in the web pages being displayed to users incorrectly.
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In IIS6.0, you had IisFTP.vbs file which you would use to set msIIS-FTPRoot and msIIS-FTPDir property for the user in Active directory. But, in Windows Server 2008, the IisFTP.vbs won’t work. You need to either set it manually in the Active Directory
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Do you have a high traffic site where you have a lot of WMV/AVI/FLV/PDF documents (or any other MIME type) where your maximum bandwidth of the site is utilized? Do you ever think where majority of the bandwidth would go? Most of the users do not completely
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