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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...
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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...
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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...
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A question came up on a blog post of mine on how to redirect a domain name that doesn’t have www in it while retaining the original domain name. Basically, to have a generic redirect to add on a www if it’s not already there. For example, how could...
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You can find this week’s video here . IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. They are useful if you want to manage a number of FTP users but don’t...
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If you’ve been following my 52-week series you most likely noticed that we’re nearing the end. This evening, for example, I’m recording week 47. One viewer made a suggestion to create a Q&A for the last couple videos. I thought that...
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You can find this week’s video here . The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol has been in wide use for years and is still widely used today. It's used for transferring files between locations and practically useful for deployment websites from a...
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You can find this week’s video here . IIS 7 has two application pool pipeline modes: Classic and Integrated. Using Integrated mode is the ideal since it allows forms authentication for all types of page requests—not just ASP.NET pages—has tighter integration...
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The aspnet.config file is a little known config file which is supported by ASP.NET 2.0 and greater. Generally it lives in the root of the framework folder, for example: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet.config C:\Windows\Microsoft...
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You can find this week’s video here . The differences between change password and reset password are not well known. This week's video walks through the differences and shows them in action. Tune in to find out more about password management. It wasn...
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An IIS 7.x URL Rewrite question that comes up often is how to redirect something.domain.com to domain.com/city. Here’s an example URL Rewrite rule to accomplish that: < rule name ="CName to URL" stopProcessing ="true" > <...
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If your web hosting provider uses is an IIS shared hosting provider chances are you can use IIS Manager for Remote Administration to additionally configure your site. This post will walk you through a simple WebMatrix publish example, connect to...
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You can find this week’s video here . This week's video shows how to easily and quickly track down IPs and ports that need to be opened to allow legitimate traffic through the firewall. Part of being a web server administrator is keeping your firewalls...
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You can find this week’s video here . Log Parser is a powerful tool that every web administrator should become familiar with. With Log Parser we can do deep troubleshooting and data mining of the IIS Logs, Event Viewer, the File System, other file types...
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You can find this week’s video here . Note: This week’s video got stuck in the publishing process so sorry for the delay, but here it is. Next week I’ll move on to some other topics besides web farms, to mix it up. Application Request Routing (ARR...
