IIS 7.0 Server-Side

Troubleshooting performance counter problems with PerfMon and a debugger

Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:17:00 GMT

Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code...(read more)

Be a part of the energy revolution / Help Save Kilowatt Ours

Mike Volodarsky — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:44:00 GMT

I dont usually post activist stuff on the blog, but I have to make an exception in this case. A year ago, I caught a late night showing of Jeff Barrie's Killowatt Ours, a 1 hour long film about the true impact of energy production on our environment,...(read more)

Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles

Mike Volodarsky — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:33:00 GMT

When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these features involve using...(read more)

Fun with file locking

Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:33:00 GMT

If you are developing code that uses distributed synchronization or messaging, you sometimes might need to use files as a locking mechanism. This can be useful because files are persistent (beyond thread, process, or even power session lifetime), and...(read more)

Analyzing server power consumption and costs

Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:05:00 GMT

For many data centers, the cost of powering servers has become a top budget item. The first step to reducing power costs lies in understanding the power characteristics of your server equipment and workloads. We started with a simple power meter and a tool to monitor and correlate power data ......(read more)

IIS 7.0 Url Rewriter gotchas when importing mod_rewrite rules

Mike Volodarsky — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:16:00 GMT

One of the best things to happen to IIS 7.0 recently is the release of Url Rewriter , the IIS 7.0 url rewriting equivalent to Apache's mod_rewrite. To ease the process of migrating Apache apps (notably PHP applications that rely on mod_rewrite rules...(read more)

IIS 7.0 Forms Authentication and Embedded Media Players

Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:04:00 GMT

One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content...(read more)

When to restart IIS when making changes to your application

Mike Volodarsky — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:02:00 GMT

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)

Leverage the Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:40:00 GMT

IIS 7.0 improves on the already solid performance of its predecessor in quite a few places. But the real power lies in the new capabilities IIS 7.0 provides that can significantly improve performance, scalability, and reduce operational costs of running web applications...(read more)

Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing

Mike Volodarsky — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:25:00 GMT

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)

Make your next IIS 7.0 web server a lean one

Mike Volodarsky — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:04:00 GMT

Among IT circles, IIS 7.0’s modularity is definitely one of its most welcomed traits. It promises a significantly reduced surface area, lightweight management overhead, and better performance. Ever wonder how far you can go with modularizing IIS 7.0? ...(read more)

The next step

Mike Volodarsky — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:46:00 GMT

It's been one week since I left Microsoft, and what a week its been! I dont remember the last time I was on so little sleep :) I'll be making some changes to www.mvolo.com and posting more info about the new stuff shortly. I have to say though...(read more)

Connecting to IIS 7.0 configuration remotely with Microsoft.Web.Administration

Mike Volodarsky — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:20:00 GMT

IIS 7.0 provides a number of APIs that you can use to manage configuration remotely. This post provides the info and tools you need to configure remote access to IIS 7.0 configuration, including for use on Server Core installations....(read more)

Leaving Microsoft ...

Mike Volodarsky — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:54:00 GMT

After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. Looking back , I can say that my experience at Microsoft has been truly amazing. I got to ship two amazing...(read more)

The IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book

Mike Volodarsky — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:59:00 GMT

The IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book is out! Coming straight from the IIS 7.0 team and some of our best MVPs, this should be the best IIS 7.0 book out there today ... ...(read more)