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When to restart IIS when making changes to your application: Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance. Read More...
Posted 12 September 08 02:02 by Mike Volodarsky | 6 Comments
Filed under IIS7, Development, Troubleshooting, ASP.NET, AppCmd, IIS
Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing: When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line Read More...
Posted 01 August 08 12:25 by Mike Volodarsky | 6 Comments
Filed under IIS7, Troubleshooting, Tools, AppCmd, IIS
Starting, stopping and recycling IIS 7.0 Web sites and application pools: As many of you know, IIS 7.0 provides the ability to start and stop Web sites, and application pools. However, since previous releases, there has been much confusion as to what exactly happens when you do so. This post should clarify this and provide Read More...
Posted 25 February 08 11:36 by Mike Volodarsky | 14 Comments
Filed under IIS7, Troubleshooting, AppCmd
Finding your way around IIS 7 configuration sections with AppCmd: The IIS 7 configuration system contains 50+ configuration sections (100+ if you count .NET Framework configuration), 477 attributes, and 57 collections. This can make it pretty challenging to figure out exactly what IIS 7 configuration section needs to Read More...
Posted 01 November 07 12:20 by Mike Volodarsky | 15 Comments
Filed under IIS7, AppCmd, Configuration
Fastest way to create IIS7 websites, applications, and application pools: IIS7 provides quite a few ways to create websites, applications, and application pools. The simplest way of course is to use the new GUI Administration tool, where your new website is always a few mouse-clicks away. But, what if you need to create 10, Read More...
Posted 06 October 07 02:00 by Mike Volodarsky | 13 Comments
Filed under IIS7, AppCmd, Configuration
Anatomy of an IIS7 configuration path: If you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS metabase paths. You know, the ones that look like LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT . These metabase paths serve as a mechanism to identify a part of the IIS website hierarchy, Read More...
Posted 21 July 07 07:42 by Mike Volodarsky | 19 Comments
Filed under IIS7, AppCmd, Configuration
Creating IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories: In the course of IIS7 development, the team and I have answered an infinity of questions about IIS7 on any possible topic imaginable. Ironically, neither I nor anyone else I know on the team has ever answered the most basic question - what is the minimum Read More...
Posted 12 July 07 10:35 by Mike Volodarsky | 92 Comments
Filed under IIS7, AppCmd
Do complex IIS management tasks easily with AppCmd command piping: As much as I hate to re-post someone else's content, I've been real busy in the past few weeks and havent had a chance to post new stuff - and today I saw Kanwal's post on a very near and dear subject of mine: AppCmd command pipelining. Things Read More...
Posted 19 June 07 12:22 by Mike Volodarsky | 4 Comments
Filed under IIS7, Troubleshooting, AppCmd
Most Important AppCmd Commands: Backing up and restoring IIS7 configuration: Welcome to the first post of the "Most Important AppCmd Commands" series . Have you ever made some changes to a system's state, and then after everything suddenly stopped working, wondered how the hell you are going to get back to a working Read More...
Posted 18 March 07 08:50 by Mike Volodarsky | 15 Comments
Filed under IIS7, AppCmd
Most Important AppCmd Commands: Usually, a day doesnt go by that I dont get a collegue or a partner team in Microsoft asking how to do something or other about AppCmd.exe, the unified command line management tool for the IIS7 server. Since its inception in the fall of 2005, the tool Read More...
Posted 18 March 07 07:56 by Mike Volodarsky | 5 Comments
Filed under IIS7, AppCmd

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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

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