IIS 7.0 Server-Side

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)

IconHandler 2.0: file icons in your ASP.NET applications

Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:27:00 GMT

Since its release, IconHandler has been a pretty popular module (on its own and with the custom DirectoryListingModule ). Today, I am releasing v2.0 of IconHandler, which contains some much-requested functionality and fixes a few issues that people have...(read more)

Mvolo.com moves again

Mike Volodarsky — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:02:00 GMT

Ever since I started blogging about IIS 7.0, I had the plan to do it on a server that was running the actual technology I was blogging about ... I deviated a little from the plan when I first stated out, making the first few posts using GoDaddy's...(read more)

Creating portable ASP.NET applications that work on IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 Classic, and IIS 7.0 Integrated modes

Mike Volodarsky — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT

ASP.NET applications in IIS 7.0 Integrated mode requires configuration changes if they define custom modules or handlers ... However, it is possible to create portable ASP.NET applications that can function in all three environments without configuration changes....(read more)

Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

Mike Volodarsky — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:05:00 GMT

I've blogged quite a bit about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications in the past. A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas in one place. Now, you can find the same information for Visual Studio 2005, in a new article titled Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0....(read more)

Backing up and restoring IIS 7.0 shared configuration

Mike Volodarsky — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Bill's recent post reminded me of a question I often get about backing up and restoring configuration when IIS 7.0 is being used in the Shared Configuration mode. In this mode, the applicationHost.config file is stored on a UNC share to allow multiple IIS 7.0 servers to share a single configuration file. ...(read more)

IIS 7.0 Bit-rate throttling module

Mike Volodarsky — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:58:00 GMT

Last week, the IIS team released bit-rate throttling module to the web. As the self-proclaimed daddy of the project (I designed and wrote the initial prototype in early 2007), I am very thrilled to see it out. The new IIS media team folks have done a...(read more)