May 2007 - Posts

The latest on the FastCGI project and PHP support on IIS

Ever since the original release of FastCGI Tech Preview 1 , and the Microsoft/Zend collaboration announcement to bring production-quality PHP to IIS, the FastCGI project has been steadily gaining momentum in the community. With the release of Longhorn Read More...

Posted 29 May 07 03:59 by Mike Volodarsky | 11 Comments   
Filed under PHP, IIS7, FastCGI

Redirect clients in your application with HttpRedirection module

In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url. Here are some reasons why your application may need to do it: · A part of your site should only be accessed over HTTPS to protect private data, Read More...

Posted 24 May 07 02:58 by Mike Volodarsky | 23 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, ASP.NET, Goodies
Attachment(s): HttpRedirection_v1_sampleapp.zip

Troubleshooting IIS7 503 "Service unavailable" errors with startup debugging

In a previous post titled Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors , I covered the basic steps for dealing with cases where the IIS7 web server fails to process the request. This error mostly occurs whenever Read More...

Posted 19 May 07 10:57 by Mike Volodarsky | 14 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Troubleshooting
Attachment(s): ImageFileExecutionOptions-Debugger.jpg

WCAT 6.3 web performance and scalability test tool released

The NT Performance team just publically released the latest version of WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool), the web performance test tool that the IIS team and NT Performance team use to conduct internal performance and scalability testing of IIS and ASP.NET. Read More...

Posted 17 May 07 03:40 by Mike Volodarsky | 53 Comments   
Filed under Tools, Performance, Goodies
Attachment(s): wcat.doc

For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
Now, I work on advanced web server tech using IIS 7.0, .NET, and Windows Server 2008 and write about it in this blog.

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TechNet Magazine
>Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

MSDN Magazine
>IIS 7.0: Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
>Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications

LeechGuard
IconHandler 2.0
DirectoryListing
HttpRedirection
IIS Auth for Wordpress
iisschema.exe
PortCheck.exe v2.0

- ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0
- Develop IIS7 modules and handlers with .NET
- Troubleshoot IIS7 errors like a pro
- Troubleshooting 503 / "service unavailable" errors
- Troubleshooting "server not found" errors
- Create IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories
- Run Ruby on Rails with IIS FastCGI
- VS Debugging of ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista
- Stop hot-linking with IIS and ASP.NET

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