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Q&A. DNS Load Balancing, Google and Geo-location, CDNs-Week 50
Published: 11 Apr 2012 Views: 826 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 Content Delivery Network (CDN).
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Q&A. What’s new in IIS8, Perf, Indexing Service–Week 49
Published: 26 Mar 2012 Views: 1,081 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week I'm taking Q&A from viewers, starting with what's new in IIS8, a question on enable32BitAppOnWin64, performance settings for asp.net, the ARR Helper, and Indexing Services.
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IIS FTP Troubleshooting - Week 48
Published: 20 Feb 2012 Views: 881 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 difficult to resolve. This video will help you understand some helpful tricks and it will walk you through ways to isolate and resolve the issue. This is week 48 of a 52 week series for the web pro.
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FTP Firewall settings, Active vs. Passive, and FTPS Explicit vs. Implicit Week 47
Published: 13 Feb 2012 Views: 1,209 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Understanding Active and Passive mode for FTP is useful for troubleshooting and ensuring that the firewall settings are set correctly. This week's video does a deep dive on Active vs. Passive and FTPS, comparing Explicit and Implicit modes. This is week 47 of a 52 week series.
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IIS FTP User Isolation - Week 46
Published: 23 Jan 2012 Views: 1,414 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week we walk through the five isolation modes to gain a full understanding of the IIS FTP method of configuration for user isolation.
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IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users - Week 45
Published: 29 Dec 2011 Views: 1,710 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 1
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. This week I cover everything you need to know to properly support IIS Manager Users with IIS FTP. This is week 45 of a 52 week series, and the 2nd of a 4 week mini-series on IIS FTP.
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IIS FTP Basics - Week 44
Published: 12 Dec 2011 Views: 2,501 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 practically useful for deployment websites from a dev machine or continuous integration server to staging or production websites.
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IIS 7.x Classic and Integrated Pipeline Modes-Week 43
Published: 05 Dec 2011 Views: 2,108 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
IIS 7 has two application pool pipeline modes: classic and integrated. This week we look at the differences and find out how to migrate a configuration file from IIS6 or Classic mode to IIS 7 Integrated mode. This is week 43 of a 52 week series for the web pro.
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Change Password vs. Reset Password - Week 42
Published: 30 Nov 2011 Views: 1,784 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
The difference 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 find out more about password management. This is week 42 of a 52 week series for the web pro.
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Line numbering in Notepad - Week 41
Published: 08 Nov 2011 Views: 1,450 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 about line numbering in notepad.
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Resolving Legit Blocked Ports Through Windows - Week 40
Published: 24 Oct 2011 Views: 1,892 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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. This is week 40 of a 52 week series for the web pro.
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Introduction to Log Parser Week 39
Published: 10 Oct 2011 Views: 2,080 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 Logs, Event Viewer, the File System, other file types and more.
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High Availability for ARR Week 38
Published: 06 Oct 2011 Views: 1,647 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Application Request Routing (ARR) does not have high availability built in, so it's up to us to implement a solution to ensure that ARR doesn't become a single point of failure. Options include hardware load balancers, other software load balancers, or two Microsoft options-namely NLB and Clustering Services.
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ARR Tricks to Share with Web Server-Week 37
Published: 21 Sep 2011 Views: 1,709 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This video covers two specific tricks to allow the Application Request Routing (ARR) and Web roles to share the same server. This is useful if you have multiple servers and can't setup dedicated servers for ARR, or even if you want to leverage ARR's functionality on the same server as the website.
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ARR Binding Trick Week 36
Published: 13 Sep 2011 Views: 1,656 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week's video shows a specific trick to allow a reverse proxy, Application Request Routing in this case, how to use only one IP address per web servers while supporting many distinct sites. This is extra useful if you have a wildcard domain name, or a large number of domain names pointing to a VIP, and you have multiple sites to manage. This is week 36 of a 52 week series for the web pro.
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Three ARR Back End Binding Options - Week 35
Published: 06 Sep 2011 Views: 1,523 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
ARR and other reverse proxies need a way to connect to the actual web nodes. This week I cover different options available to managing the site bindings for the sites per server. If you have a single site, it's straight forward, but once you start adding sites and servers, then need to plan how you manage the binding sprawl. This week covers the three primary options and how to configure them.
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ARR Health Checks - Week 34
Published: 30 Aug 2011 Views: 1,882 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 few principles that will help you be more effective in your web farm environment.
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Introduction to Application Request Routing Week 31
Published: 23 Aug 2011 Views: 2,515 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week we start looking at Application Request Routing to understand what it is and to setup a basic server farm.
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ARR Helper Week 33
Published: 22 Aug 2011 Views: 2,231 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week we take a look at the issue caused by the man-in-the-middle and how to resolve it with ARR Helper, a small component offered by Microsoft to address this very issue.
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Bindings and Rules for Application Request Routing (ARR) - Week 32
Published: 10 Aug 2011 Views: 2,098 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week we take a look at how to leverage URL Rewrite for ARR to create different rules for different virtual IP's (VIP's). This is week 32 of a 52 week series for the web pro.
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Shared Config - Staggered Install Week 30
Published: 29 Jul 2011 Views: 1,692 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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.
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IIS 7.x Shared Configuration – Advanced Tips and Tricks Week 29
Published: 18 Jul 2011 Views: 2,147 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 is for you.
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IIS Shared Configuration Week 28
Published: 13 Jul 2011 Views: 2,417 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 setup IIS Shared configuration, along with a few considerations necessary to administer web farms.
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DFS-R for Web Server Replication Week 27
Published: 04 Jul 2011 Views: 2,790 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week’s video lesson covers the end to end process of installing DFS, adding shared folders, troubleshooting, and watching it in action.
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How to Setup an Active Directory Domain Week 26
Published: 28 Jun 2011 Views: 1,871 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
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 video to help setup either a test or production environment that requires Active Directory.
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Using IP Restrictions with URL Rewrite Week 25
Published: 21 Jun 2011 Views: 2,239 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
URL Rewrite offers tremendous flexibility for customizing rules to your environment. One area of functionality that is often desired for URL
Rewrite is to allow a large list of approved or denied IP addresses and subnet ranges.
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Web Gardens in IIS Week 24
Published: 13 Jun 2011 Views: 2,856 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
In this weeks video Scott talks about web gardens.
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ProcessMon - Power Tool for the Windows Admin Week 20
Published: 10 Jun 2011 Views: 1,829 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Series for the web administrator. Understanding Regular Expressions with a focus on URL Rewrite.
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Mastering IIS - Understanding the Schema-Week 19
Published: 10 Jun 2011 Views: 1,838 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 19 of a 52 web pro series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week digs even deeper into IIS by visiting the IIS configuration schema.
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IIS 7.x's Configuration System Week 17
Published: 09 Jun 2011 Views: 1,625 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 17 of a 52 series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers the new configuration system in IIS 7.x and well as some gotchas with this new delegated and distributed configuration system.
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Hacking IIS's AppHost-Week 18
Published: 09 Jun 2011 Views: 1,550 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 18 of a 52 web pro series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers advanced IIS management by editing of applicationHost.config.
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IIS's Overlapping App Pools Week 16
Published: 08 Jun 2011 Views: 1,591 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 16 of a 52 series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers the w3wp.exe worker process and the theory behind recycling app pools, forcedly killing the w3wp.exe process and what's safe in a production environment.
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Securing IIS. Thwarting the Hacker. Week 23
Published: 06 Jun 2011 Views: 2,664 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week's video covers the users used by IIS and how to lock down your web server. Week 23 of a 52 week series.
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Understanding Regular Expressions (focus on URL Rewrite) Week 11
Published: 05 Jun 2011 Views: 2,024 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This 2nd part (out of 2) on Regular Expressions covers the remaining tips necessary to get up to speed on a topic that at first seems daunting, but really isn’t that bad.
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Understanding URL Rewrite - Part 2 Week 9
Published: 05 Jun 2011 Views: 2,089 Avg Rating: 5/5 Votes: 1 Comments: 0
Learn more about URL rewriting in IIS7.
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Understanding Regular Expressions Week 10
Published: 05 Jun 2011 Views: 1,537 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
In today’s lesson I attempt to bring this down to earth and make it understandable and useful for the web administrator.
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The SSL Bindings Issue-Week 6
Published: 04 Jun 2011 Views: 2,105 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
In this video you will learn about binding issues with IIS7.
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Adding Host Headers for SSL sites in IIS 7 and 6 Week 7
Published: 04 Jun 2011 Views: 2,081 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This week I cover a trick plus a full featured way to set these host headers in IIS 7.0/7.5 and IIS 6
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An Intro to URL Rewrite + Adding www to Domain Name Week 8
Published: 04 Jun 2011 Views: 3,080 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Learn how to url rewrite using IIS7.
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Three Tricks For Capturing Command Line Output - Week 4
Published: 03 Jun 2011 Views: 2,063 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This short video covers 3 tricks to capturing the command line output.
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The Four IIS Binding Decision Points-Week 5
Published: 03 Jun 2011 Views: 2,372 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
In this video you will learn more about IIS7 bindings.
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Nslookup–the Ultimate DNS Troubleshooting Tool - Week 3
Published: 02 Jun 2011 Views: 2,232 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This is part 3 of a 52 Web Pro Series for the web administrator.
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IIS’s ApplicationPoolIdentity Made Easy. Week 22
Published: 30 May 2011 Views: 2,950 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
This video demystifies this special account and covers information useful to the web pro.
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IIS 7.0/7.5’s Hidden Tool. Run-time page request performance data. Week 21
Published: 23 May 2011 Views: 5,086 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
In this episode you will learn more about the run-time information on all running page requests.
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URL Rewrite Outbound Rules Week 14
Published: 07 May 2011 Views: 1,641 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 14 of a 52 series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers outbound rules in URL Rewrite, along with a Server Name Variable add-on provider.
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IIS Virtual Directory vs. Application Week 15
Published: 07 May 2011 Views: 1,908 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 15 of a 52 series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers the 4 folder types in IIS, particularly the differences between vdirs and applications.
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AppDomain - What it is and Why it's Important Week 12
Published: 06 May 2011 Views: 2,014 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
In this video you will learn the importance of AppDomains
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SiteServerDetails - Web Farm Node Information Week 13
Published: 06 May 2011 Views: 1,385 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0
Week 13 of a 52 series on what every web administrators needs to know to be successful in this space. This week covers how to display server node information in a web farm.
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Understanding DNS Zone Records–Web Pro Series Week 2
Published: 08 Jan 2011 Views: 2,808 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 3
Today I cover DNS Zone Records , part 2 of a 52 week series on a number of web technology related topics. This is a “Level 101” video, covering what A, CNAME, MX, TXT records are, as well as the difference between a DNS Client and Server, and DNS wildcards.
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Web Pro Series (ping and tracert) Week 1
Published: 01 Jan 2011 Views: 7,455 Avg Rating: 5/5 Votes: 1 Comments: 0
Today I’m starting with a “Level 101” session on two basic but essential troubleshooting tools—ping and tracert. These lay the foundation for many deeper troubleshooting videos in the future.
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