Web and Cloud

Flush IIS HTTP and FTP Logs to Disk

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:11:13 GMT

Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand. The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb). This can make troubleshooting difficult when you don’t receive immediate access...(read more)

Using URL Rewrite to Insert Different Scripts Based on Browser Type

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:14:11 GMT

I just stumbled across a piece of sample code that I had written several months ago for a coworker, and I thought that I'd share it with everyone. Here's the scenario: my coworker asked me if it was possible to have different client-side scripts...(read more)

Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN

Silverlight and Windows Phone SDK — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:18:07 GMT

It was recently brought to my attention that we have done a poor job of evangelizing the Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN . These guidelines were previously available in PDF format, but a few months ago a couple of folks worked really hard to bring...(read more)

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 2 - Using Gradient Colors for Area Charts

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:30:46 GMT

In Part 2 of this series, I'll show you how to customize the area chart from Part 1 to show the chart area with a gradient. More specifically, there are three different chart gradient methods that we'll take a look at in this blog post: SetOneColorGradient...(read more)

TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:30:47 GMT

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I’m particularly excited about the “A look at ASP...(read more)

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 1 - Working With Configuration Scripts

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:13:52 GMT

I recently had a situation where I wanted to customize the chart output from Log Parser, and after a bunch of research I eventually arrived at the conclusion that configuration scripts for create customized charts are probably the least-documented feature...(read more)

Joomla! 2.5 Adds SQL Server Support!

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:00 GMT

This is a short post to shareexciting news: Jooma! 2.5, which shipped earlier this week, now has support for SQL Server! Of course, this release contains lots more goodies, but the addition of a database abstraction layer that supports multiple databases...(read more)

Recommended Listening–Clint Huffman on RunAs Radio

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:34:19 GMT

This week’s RunAs Radio has Clint Huffman , a Microsoft Premier Field Engieer talking to Richard Campbell about understanding the health state of IIS7/7.5. There is some excellent content in this episode and I’d strongly recommend listning to it...(read more)

Microsoft at Node Summit

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT

We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week. Among those Microsoft staffers on site are Server & Tools Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie - who participated on a panel about Platform as a Service...(read more)

IIS FTP User Isolation-Week 46

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:34:37 GMT

You can find this week’s video here . I’ve been looking forward to releasing this week’s video. IIS FTP User isolation is an interesting topic because it offers a lot of power and flexibility but it’s not very intuitive because of how it’s managed...(read more)

Getting Started with Windows Azure

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:24:32 GMT

This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform. In today’s post I’m going to cover how to sign-up and get started with Windows Azure using a no-obligation 3 month free trial offer. ...(read more)

Windows Azure

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:35:57 GMT

As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, core pieces of .NET and VS, and a bunch of other products...(read more)

Smooth Streaming to XBox and Beyond

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:17:54 GMT

Last month, Microsoft announced the new TV platform for XBox and a long list of content providers that will be bringing their TV and premium content onto XBox. For more detailed information, please check the press release here and here . As someone from...(read more)

“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th)

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:08:00 GMT

This coming Monday (Jan 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session . The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time). I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun. Attendees can ask any questions they want...(read more)

Tips & Tricks: DebugDiag 1.2

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:32:37 GMT

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to have a very small hand in the birth of DebugDiag. In version 1.0, I got to do some work on the analysis scripts, as well as work on one of the debugger extensions it uses for analysis. As a result of the time I spent...(read more)