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Monday September 16, 2013 by Erez's IIS Blog
IntroductionApplication Request Routing (ARR) is a proxy-based routing module that uses HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms to determine how to forward HTTP requests to content servers. The release of ARR 3.0 in July 2013 contains a few new features, as well as bug fixes. ...
Tuesday September 3, 2013 by Erez's IIS Blog
When Christopher Bullock wrote about the certainties in life in his book The Political History of the Devil, he probably should have added a 3rd certainty…that your certificates WILL expire and you’ll have to renew them. I think we can forgive that, as he wrote the book in 1726 and websites weren...
Saturday February 8, 2014 by rakkimk
Yes, you are reading it right. It is true. It’s just a matter of one click to promote your staging website to be the production site. Gone are those hassles you were facing with publishing a new deployment to the live website, and some unbaked pages/assemblies, needless to say much pain, downtime, and probability of errors. Read the complete post here....
Sunday February 2, 2014 by lprete
Have you been looking a download of the IIS Administation cmdlets for Powershell for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2012 R2?For earlier versions of Windows the IIS PowerShell Snap-in was a download, but with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012 R2 the IIS PowerShell Snap-in is built into the operating system.To enable the IIS PowerShell Cmdlets on Windows 7, please follow these steps. 1. From the Sta...
Friday January 31, 2014 by robmcm
I had an interesting question earlier today which I thought was worth sharing. One of my coworkers was trying to use the code sample from my Programmatically Flushing FTP Logs blog, and he was getting the following error:Unhandled Exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Interop.IAppHos...
Friday January 31, 2014 by robmcm
Whenever I am delivering a presentation where I need to use PHP, I typically use a batch file that I wrote in order to rapidly deploy PHP on the system that I am using for my demos. The batch file usually takes less than a second to run, which always seems to amaze people in the audience. As a result, I usually have several people ask me for my batch file after each presentation, so I thought t...