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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me

Scott Forsyths WebLog, May 14, 2012
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Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it!  localtest.me (http://localtest.me) and *.localtest.me (http://something.localtest.me) If you ...

Google and Geo-location, CNDs, DNS Load Balancing-Week 50

Scott Forsyths WebLog, April 20, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. This week answers two Q&A questions from viewers. DNS Load Balancing and then some discussion and a walkthrough using Application Request Routing (ARR) for a C...

Using Log Parser to List All Blocked IP Requests

Scott on Writing, April 8, 2012
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In a recent project we needed to block a series of IP addresses from accessing our website. IIS makes this easy with its IPv4 Address and Domain Restrictions feature, which lets the webmaster specify ...

Whats new in IIS8, Perf, Indexing Service-Week 49

Scott Forsyths WebLog, March 27, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. After some delays in the publishing process week 49 is finally live.  This week I'm taking Q&A from viewers, starting with what's new in IIS8, a question ...

Debugging Node.js applications for Windows Azure

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), March 22, 2012
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In case you are developing a new web application with Node.js for Windows Azure, you might notice there is no easy way to debug the application unless you are developing in an integrated IDE like Clou...

ASP.NET Web API and Simple Value Parameters from POSTed data

Rick Strahls WebLog, March 22, 2012
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In testing out various features of Web API I've found a few oddities in the way that the serialization is handled. These are probably not super common but they may throw you for a loop. Here's what I ...

Make IIS Express the Default for VS2010 Web Projects

Steven Smith, March 19, 2012
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Heres a quick tip that will help you leave Cassini in the past where it belongs.  If youre using VS2010 SP1, you can configure your IDE so that it will automatically choose IIS Express out of the...

It has been a long time since last post

CarlosAg Blog, March 16, 2012
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Wow, just realized that in the last 6 months Ive only had a chance to post 2 items and I think it is about time to start this going again. So why this much silence? Well, About 8 months ago a couple...

How to increase debugging idle time in Visual Studio configuring IIS

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 11, 2012
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Increase debugging idle time in visual studio configuring IIS...

Whats New in IIS 8

Scott Forsyths WebLog, March 1, 2012
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With the beta release of Windows Server 8 today, Internet Information server (IIS) 8 is available to the public for testing and even production workload testing.  Many system administrators have ...

Basic Authentication with the ASP.NET Membership API

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 22, 2012
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In this post well discuss how you can get IIS to use basic authentication against an ASP.NET Membership store....

IIS FTP Troubleshooting-Week 48

Scott Forsyths WebLog, February 21, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. This lesson covers ways to troubleshoot IIS FTP. When it works, it works well, but if you run into issues getting an FTP account working it can sometimes be diffic...

FTP Firewall Settings, Active vs. Passive, and FTPS Explicit vs. Implicit-Week 47

Scott Forsyths WebLog, February 13, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. Have you ever wondered what FTP Active mode or Passive mode means? Do you have a good understanding of the FTP data channel or control channel? It can be difficult...

Whats new in WCF 4.5? Improved streaming in IIS hosting

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 3, 2012
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Improved streaming in IIS hosting...

Thoughts on SharePoint Application Pools, Recycling and "JIT Lag"

Eli Robillards World of Blog., January 30, 2012
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What are Application Pools? Application Pools are a .NET construct, and each pool represents an instance of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) executing managed .NET code. Each application pool in IIS ...

IIS FTP User Isolation-Week 46

Scott Forsyths WebLog, January 23, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. Ive been looking forward to releasing this weeks video.  IIS FTP User isolation is an interesting topic because it offers a lot of power and flexibility but i...

IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users-Week 45

Scott Forsyths WebLog, January 4, 2012
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You can find this weeks video here. IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. They are useful i...

Accepting Questions for Web Pro Series Q&A

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 19, 2011
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If youve been following my 52-week series you most likely noticed that were nearing the end.  This evening, for example, Im recording week 47.  Predrag Tomasevic (see developer related art...

Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio

Rick Strahls WebLog, December 15, 2011
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Recently I've seen quite a few questions pop up in regards to debugging ASP.NET application initialization. Most commonly I see something along these lines: I'm trying to debug my ASP.NET application...

IIS FTP BasicsWeek 44

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 13, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol has been in wide use for years and is still widely used today. It's used for transferring files between locations and pra...

Transform your IIS into a real-time pub/sub engine with Faye-Node

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), December 12, 2011
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Faye is a simple Http Pub/Sub server initially implemented by John Coglan in Ruby, and also later ported by himself to Node.js. The version for Node.js implements the Bayeux protocol, which at first g...

IIS 7.x Classic and Integrated Pipeline Modes-Week 43

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 5, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. IIS 7 has two application pool pipeline modes: Classic and Integrated. Using Integrated mode is the ideal since it allows forms authentication for all types of pag...

Setting an aspnet.config File per Application Pool

Scott Forsyths WebLog, December 1, 2011
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The aspnet.config file is a little known config file which is supported by ASP.NET 2.0 and greater.  Generally it lives in the root of the framework folder, for example: C:\Windows\Micro...

Change Password vs. Reset Password-Week 42

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 30, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. The differences between change password and reset password are not well known. This week's video walks through the differences and shows them in action. Tune in to...

Getting Started with IIS 7.5 and ASP.NET 2.0 Classic

The Code Project Latest Articles, November 26, 2011
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Use this article as a guideline for getting your ASP.NET website onto IIS 7.5, from scratch...

URL Rewrite city.domain.com to domain.com/city

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 23, 2011
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An IIS 7.x URL Rewrite question that comes up often is how to redirect something.domain.com to domain.com/city. Heres an example URL Rewrite rule to accomplish that: <rule name="CNam...

Line Numbering in Notepad-Week 41

Scott Forsyths WebLog, November 21, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Notepad is so simple, yet so useful. Yet, at times the "Go To" appears to break and doesn't work as expected. This week's video is short and sweet. Learn...

ASP.NET Server.TransferRequest performs a full IIS child request under the covers, which allows it to re-run the entire request pipeline for the new request as if it was a separate request, getting th

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, November 11, 2011
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The new ASP.NET TransferRequest method performs a complete request by using an IIS 7 worker thread.  read moreBy Peter Bromberg...

Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5?

peterkellner.net, October 31, 2011
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Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type.  One easy way to do it is to add to your web.config the following:   ....

Resolving Blocked Ports Through Windows Firewall-Week 40

Scott Forsyths WebLog, October 28, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week's video shows how to easily and quickly track down IPs and ports that need to be opened to allow legitimate traffic through the firewall. Part of being...

Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode

JonGalloway.ToString(), October 26, 2011
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Node.js is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on the open-source V8 Javascript engine. It's really easy to run it on Windows now, and if you run it under iisnode, it's actual...

Introduction to Log Parser-Week 39

Scott Forsyths WebLog, October 17, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Log Parser is a powerful tool that every web administrator should become familiar with. With Log Parser we can do deep troubleshooting and data mining of the IIS L...

Using request filters in DotNetNuke to restrict website access

Shaun Walker, October 11, 2011
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Have you ever had the need to blog a range of IP Addresses from accessing your website? Or perhaps, setup a website that is only accessible to a specific range of IP Addresses? DotNetNuke Request Filt...

High Availability for ARR-Week 38

Scott Forsyths WebLog, October 7, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Note: This weeks video got stuck in the publishing process so sorry for the delay, but here it is.  Next week Ill move on to some other topics besides web far...

Using Service Bus Queues with WCF

Tom Hollanders blog, October 6, 2011
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In 2008 I posted a series of blog articles about how to use MSMQ, WCF and IIS together. I chose to use this architecture as it combined the scalability and resiliency benefits of durable asynchronous ...

Migrating From WP7 To MangoGetting Started

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, October 6, 2011
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A Windows Phone Mini-Series There are hundreds of great new features in Mango, and Windows Phone programmers will want that transition to be as smooth as possible. Margaret Parsons and I have been bus...

Figuring out the IIS Version for a given OS in .NET Code

Rick Strahls WebLog, September 19, 2011
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Here's an odd requirement: I need to figure out what version of IIS is available on a given machine in order to take specific configuration actions when installing an IIS based application. I build se...

ARR Binding Trick-Week 36

Scott Forsyths WebLog, September 13, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week's video shows a specific trick to allow a reverse proxyApplication Request Routing in this casehow to use only one IP address per web servers while suppo...

Three ARR Back End Binding OptionsWeek 35

Scott Forsyths WebLog, September 7, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. ARR and other reverse proxies need a way to connect to the actual web nodes. Like other reverse proxies, Microsofts free load balancing solutionApplication Request...

ARR Health ChecksWeek 34

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 31, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. Application Request Routing (ARR) is used as a load balancer (reverse proxy) for highly available websites. This week I cover health checks in ARR and lay out a fe...

How to convert CIDR IP block lists to IIS applicationHost.config format

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, August 30, 2011
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How to block IP addresses in Internet Information Server with CIDR format block lists  read moreBy Peter Bromberg...

Introduction to Application Request Routing-Week 31

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 24, 2011
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Im finally catching up on the series.  Sorry to those who have asked about the delay.  I had completed the videos, but a delay with the article submission kept week 31 from going live. ...

Bindings and Rules for ARR-Week 32

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 24, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week we take a look at how to leverage URL Rewrite for Application Request Routing (ARR) to create different rules for different virtual IP's (VIP's). This is...

ARR Helper-Week 33

Scott Forsyths WebLog, August 24, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week we take a look at the issue caused by the man-in-the-middle and how to resolve it with ARR Helpera small component offered by Microsoft to address this v...

IIS Shared ConfigStaggered Install-Week 30

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 29, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This week's lesson covers how to perform staggered installs when IIS Shared Configuration is enabled. This is week 30 of a 52 week series for the web pro. IIS Sha...

IIS 7.x Shared ConfigurationAdvanced Tips and Tricks-Week 29

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 20, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This video covers advanced under the hood tips and tricks for IIS Shared Config. If you are already familiar with Shared Config and want to go deeper, this video i...

IIS 7 Shared ConfigurationWeek 28

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 14, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. IIS 7 (and 7.5) offers an extremely useful and easy to use feature for shared web farm situations, called Shared Configuration. This week walks through how to setu...

Switching Physical Path of Website Using a Script

The Code Project Latest Articles, July 5, 2011
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Switching IIS websites' physical location automatically...

DFS-R for Web Server Replication-Week 27

Scott Forsyths WebLog, July 4, 2011
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You can find this weeks video here. This weeks video lesson covers the end to end process of installing DFS, adding shared folders, troubleshooting, and watching it in action. Distributed File Syste...

How to Setup an Active Directory Domain-Week 26

Scott Forsyths WebLog, June 29, 2011
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Today's lesson covers how to create an Active Directory domain and join a member server to it. This week's topic takes a slightly different turn from the normally IIS related topics, but this is key v...