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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it!  localtest.me ( http://localtest.me ) and *.localtest.me ( http://something.localtest.me ) If you do any testing on your local system you’ve probably...

URL Scan or Request Filtering in IIS7 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

URL Scan has been a useful tool since Windows Server 2003, and continues to be used on many web server deployments. Did you know though that IIS7 includes a feature named Request Filtering that handles the same functionality as URL … Read more »...

NxtGenUG Manchester Slides by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Thanks to all the attendees who came to my talk on IIS8 last week at NxtGenUG Manchester Daresbury.  Apologies for the delay in posting the slides, you can now get them on my Slides & Resources page and the direct link for the IIS 8 Presentation...
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Orchard: Custom Content in Sub-Folders by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Orchard doesn’t seem to like anything in it’s web root except for it’s own content. Try it out – create a folder (I created /TestContent/) and then put a test from there (I created test.html) and try to access it. … Read...

Extensibility Updates in the FTP 8.0 Service by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A few years ago I wrote a blog that was titled " FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References ", in which I discussed the extensibility APIs that we added in FTP 7.5. Over the next couple of years I followed that initial blog with a series of walkthroughs...
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Google and Geo-location, CNDs, DNS Load Balancing-Week 50 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . This week answers two Q&A questions from viewers. DNS Load Balancing and then some discussion and a walkthrough using Application Request Routing (ARR) for a Content Delivery Network (CDN). There’s a growing movement...
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Enable Caching in IIS to Speed Performance by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Google’s various page speed testing tools seem to prefer browser caching set with at least a one week expiration set. That makes great sense to me! Setting a browser cache expiration tells the visitor’s browser that is is okay to … Read...
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IIS 7.x Shared Configuration by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Below is a guest post from Rick Barber, the Senior Support Specialist at OrcsWeb, a managed Windows hosting provider specializing in Windows cloud server hosting and dedicated Windows hosting. If you find the following to be useful, check out the link...
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Release Candidates of Application Initialization and Dynamic IP Restrictions Released by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Two new Release Candidates for the following IIS Extensions have been released today: Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 (the replacement for the previously released Application Warmup beta extension) Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS7/7.5 Application...
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Want to Hear About IIS8? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

With the recent release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and the Windows Server 8 Beta I’ve been looking at the new features in IIS8 such as: Web Socket Support Application Initialization Configuration Optimization SNI Support and many more… If you would...
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What’s new in IIS8, Perf, Indexing Service-Week 49 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . After some delays in the publishing process week 49 is finally live.  This week I'm taking Q&A from viewers, starting with what's new in IIS8, a question on enable32BitAppOnWin64 , performance settings...
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IIS.net is running on IIS 8.0 Beta! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Here at Microsoft we're pretty passionate about testing our own software. We often ask our customers to test the pre-release versions of our new software products, and we wouldn't ask our customers to try something that we're unwilling to...
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FTP Logon Restrictions in IIS 8 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

One of the biggest asks from our customers over the years was to provide a way to prevent brute-force password attacks on the FTP service. On several of the FTP sites that I host, I used to see a large number of fraudulent logon requests from hackers...
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It has been a long time since last post by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Wow, just realized that in the last 6 months I’ve only had a chance to post 2 items and I think it is about time to start this going again. So why this much silence? Well, About 8 months ago a couple of big changes happened at my division as described...
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Log Parser: Pulling Valuable Data From IIS Logs by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Tweet Microsoft’s Log Parser is an awesome tool that justifies knowledge, if not even regular use, by both system administrators and web users alike. From the download site: “Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal...
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