Flush IIS HTTP and FTP Logs to Disk
Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand. The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb). This can make troubleshooting...
View ArticleFTP Firewall Settings, Active vs. Passive, and FTPS Explicit vs....
You can find this week’s 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...
View ArticleIIS FTP Troubleshooting-Week 48
You can find this week’s 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...
View ArticleWhat’s New in IIS 8
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 been...
View ArticleWhat’s new in IIS8, Perf, Indexing Service-Week 49
You can find this week’s video here.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,...
View ArticleGoogle and Geo-location, CNDs, DNS Load Balancing-Week 50
You can find this week’s 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...
View ArticleIntroducing Testing Domain - localtest.me
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 do any testing...
View ArticleLast Day With OrcsWeb
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since my first day at OrcsWeb. Today is my last official day, but I’ll still be close by. I have a number of ties here, including being a customer through...
View ArticleReading a memory.dmp or other .dmp file
While the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) occurs less frequently with newer versions of Windows than it did in years past, there are still times when the BSOD reveals itself. I just ran into four...
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URL Rewrite – Protocol (http/https) in the Action
IIS URL Rewrite supports server variables for pretty much every part of the URL and http header. However, there is one commonly used server variable that isn’t readily available. That’s the...
View ArticleWindows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit
IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed.However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on...
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Handing MVC paths with dots in the path
A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project. The path looked something like this:http://domain.com/aspnet/CLR4.0The MVC routes didn’t...
View ArticleUsing WebDAV with ARR
Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. I’m a big fan and have written often about it.I had someone ask me this week about WebDAV support for...
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Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?
Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. I’ve always been a bit curious where that...
View ArticlePrepending www to 2nd level domain names
A fairly common request for URL Rewrite is to prepend a www to all 2nd level domains, regardless of the domain name. Consider the following domain names:http://domain1.com http://domain2.net...
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Creating a Reverse Proxy with URL Rewrite for IIS
There are times when you need to reverse proxy through a server. The most common example is when you have an internal web server that isn’t exposed to the internet, and you have a public web server...
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Master the Developer and IT Pro job interviews like you would a game boss
Software developer and IT Pro job interviews can be a lot of fun when you’re prepared for them, but they can be scary and overwhelming when you’re not. Since this is regarding your job which you’ll...
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URL Rewrite vs. Redirect; What’s the difference?
IIS URL Rewrite has five different types of actions. They are: Rewrite, Redirect, Custom Response, Abort Request, and None. And if you have ARR (Application Request Routing) installed, then at the...
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IIS: Using Windows Authentication with Minimal Permissions Granted to Disk
I had a question asked me recently regarding Windows auth and NTFS permissions. Here’s the question:When I run an IIS site using Windows Authentication, is there a way to let the Application Pool...
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“Identity not verified” issue in Chrome
I ran into an interesting issue with a site that I’m involved with. This week we started to receive reports of a warning in Chrome that says “Identity not verified”. This is for a site that has been...
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