DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with IIS7

Live Smooth Streaming: Retrieving the configuration settings via code

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:45:00 GMT

In my previous post, I explained how the Microsoft.Web.Administration API of IIS7 helped us to manage the Live Smooth Streaming Publishing Points programmatically. In this post I'm going to show you how, using the same API, you can retrieve the Live Smooth Streaming configuration settings.

Live Smooth Streaming: Managing a Publishing point via code

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:23:47 GMT

Live Smooth Streaming: How-to: Start, Stop & Shutdown a Publishing Point Programmatically. Describes how to use the Microsoft.Web.Administration API to perform different operations over a live smooth streaming publishing point.

IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit (ScottGu)

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:45:05 GMT

"Today we are shipping the first beta of a new free tool - the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit - that makes it easy to perform SEO analysis on your site and identify and fix issues within it."

Optimize asp.net website on IIS7, using GZip compression

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:49:00 GMT

How to setup GZip compression for javascript files and dynamic content.

ASP.NET application lockdown on IIS 7

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:31:47 GMT

"With IIS 7 it is now easier than ever to customize the inner workings of ASP.NET applications using only the web.config. It is possible to remove all the features but the ones the specific application uses. In other words, we are able to lock down our applications and only turn on the features we need. The reason to do this is to reduce the attack surface of the application as well as stay in total control all the way from the IIS and into the ASP.NET application."

IIS7 URL Rewrite Module - Video Walkthrough

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:29:55 GMT

This video demonstrates how Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 can be used to accomplish common URL manipulation tasks: .Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URLs for dynamic web pages .Enforcing canonical host names for web sites .Using rewrite maps .Blocking unwanted requests Also the video shows how to troubleshoot and debug rewrite rules.

Scott Hanselman: ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 Rewrite Module

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:32:12 GMT

"Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up. Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage of IIS7's modular design to release a bunch of new modules out-of-band."

BlogEngine 1.4.5 and IIS7

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:56:54 GMT

FYI: BlogEngine source download is a solution with a core Web Application project and a Web Site project consisting of the main deployable part. I hate Web Site projects; they should be stamped out!!

Recent SQL Injection Attacks against Server

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:04:03 GMT

"For the last couple of days I've noticed that my server's been inundated with a huge number of unwanted requests." -Article shows how Rick Strahl solved the problem with IIS7.

ASP.NET Themes Don't Like IE8's X-UA-Compatible header; Neither Do I

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:31:02 GMT

"I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I'll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I'll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible thing, and why I think the way that turned out was bad for everyone."

IIS Powershell User guide - Comparing representative IIS UI tasks

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:28:49 GMT

omg! This is the whip!

Configuring ASP.NET 1.1 websites on IIS 7.0

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:50:04 GMT

If you want to run your existing ASP.NET 1.1 websites under .NET Framework v1.1 please read this post Configuring .NET Framework 1.1 on windows vista and follow the below steps. 1. Open IIS 7 by going through Control Panel/Administrative Tools and please select the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions option from IIS section.

New IIS7 Releases: URL Rewrite, Application Routing and Load Balancin

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:12:04 GMT

New releases for IIS 7 from Microsoft, CTP1 release.

Redirecting an HTTP Request to HTTPS in IIS 7.0

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:48:30 GMT

Redirecting an HTTP connection to HTTPS is a very common requirement for applications that use SSL channel. A common example is Outlook Web Access (OWA). With Internet Information Services 7.0, we have a new configuration system and a new user interface. Here are the steps that you will need to automatically redirect an HTTP connection to HTTPS

IIS 7.0 Remote Administration and Database Manager Video

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:11:38 GMT

Very nice video that shows how you can enable IIS Manager and Database Manager and other modules.

Adding ASP.NET Tracing to IIS 7.0 Failed Request Tracing

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:21:40 GMT

IIS 7.0 Failed Request Tracing (for historical reasons internally we refer to it as FREB, since it used to be called Failed Request Event Buffering, and there are no "good-sounding-decent" acronyms for the new name) is probably the best diagnosing tool that IIS has ever had (that doesn't require Debugging skills), in a simplistic way it exposes all the interesting events that happen during the request processing in a way that allows you to really understand what went wrong with any request.

Mapping a different file extension for ASPX Pages in IIS 7.0

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:06:05 GMT

So just by adding a new handler (ASPNETLikeHandler above) to the System.WebServer/Handlers will cause IIS to see this extension and correctly execute the page. Note that we use the preCondition attribute to tell IIS that this handler should only be used when we are running in an Integrated Pipeline Application Pool.

IIS7 GAC Viewer

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:15:13 GMT

DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our platform - including IIS Manager Remote Delegated Access to the Web Site and many other cool tools - has just built and released yet another cool module that extends the IIS Manager capabilities by having a GAC Viewer for their customers.

IIS7 URL Rewriting Module Documentation and Walkthroughs

Sat, 31 May 2008 13:24:32 GMT

The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks.

Host your own Web Server in your app using IIS7 Hostable Web Core

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:27:59 GMT

IIS 7.0 includes a very cool feature that is not so well known called Hostable WebCore (HWC). This feature basically allows you to host the entire IIS functionality within your own process.

ScottGu tells about the new IIS7 Admin Pack

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:16:03 GMT

"Last week the IIS team shipped the first technical preview of some really cool administration modules that I think web developers will find super useful." Database Manager, Log Reports, Configuration Editor, Request Filtering UI, .NET Authorization, FastCGI UI

ScottGu: IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module Released

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:32:27 GMT

The blog post below provides a quick overview of some of the options you can use to reduce the cost of delivering video, and discusses a new free download - the IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module - that was released a few days ago and which enables you to easily save money when serving video from an IIS web server using any video technology (including Silverlight, Windows Media Player and even Flash).

GoDaddy Now offering IIS7

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:23:45 GMT

If you recently set up a new Windows shared hosting account you noticed the addition of support for IIS7. What does this mean to you?

Using the IIS 7.0 Managed Configuration API

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:17:29 GMT

Article covers how to programatically modify the IIS 7.0 configuration in .NET using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace.

Adding an Application Pool to IIS7 programmatically

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:22:15 GMT

This post shows you how to create an Application Pool in IIS7 from C#.