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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.  They also recognize the downside of being stateful - having to refresh the state when ...

When you are working with the web server, dealing with errors is a fact of life.  They creep in when applications change, when you deploy to a new server, make configuration changes, or add new functionality.The IIS 7.0 philosophy with respect to errors is that an error is better than something seemingly working in a way that you don’t ...

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 you with the tools you need to execute the tasks correctly.   1) Web ...

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 you can do by piping appcmd commands The post covers command pipelining, the advanced ...