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Can you run WordPress on Windows? Sure, it works great! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Did you know that WordPress works – and works great – on Microsoft Windows? Sure, WordPress runs on top of PHP and MySQL, which are commonly thought to be related to Linux, but they work perfectly on Windows Server also. … Read more...

Using LogParser to Check Visitor IPs to a Certain Page by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today I noticed we were getting an increasing amount of spam on one of our form pages. I was curious to see if all of the user IP addresses were the same (in which case I’d just add them to … Read more »...( read more ) Read More...

Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 isn’t as hard as you might think. At least it isn’t as hard as I thought! Server Core can be intimidating to long-time Windows users who expect to see the comfortable familiarity of … Read...

Linking spam sent through shared IIS SMTP server to a user by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a runaway process performing the abuse)? Well...

PUT/POST/DELETE Verb Errors On Site by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A client was getting errors when using PUT/POST/DELETE verbs on their web application recently. The errors he was seeing were: After some troubleshooting the error was isolated to the fact that WebDav was installed on the server and was intercepting …...

Troubleshooting Application Request Routing (ARR) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Troubleshooting ARR (Microsoft’s Application Request Routing solution) can be tricky at times. Here’s a great post by Jeff Graves from OrcsWeb with some tips on tracking down issues – specifically the especially-tricky 502.x errors....
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Magically Sync Machine Key for All Nodes in a Web Farm by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Okay, well, it isn’t really magic – not even the Apple type – but it is pretty cool. Below is a post by OrcsWeb’s Jeff Graves providing a VERY handy script that can be used to instantly synchronize the machine … Read more...
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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 »...
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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...
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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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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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Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Tweet Below is a guest-post by Terri, one of the managed Windows support engineers at OrcsWeb. If you’ve ever run into the situation where you want to analyze performance data on Windows Server and don’t know what counters to collect …...
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Great Pointers For Analyzing Memory Crash Dumps by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This is an older article (2006) but still an excellent resource for anyone who has to do deep troubleshooting and research to determine the cause of a crash in a .NET application. With these tips, and perhaps just a little luck, you can even trace the...
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Resolving the error: ~/Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd is missing in web.config. by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

When attempting to run an application that uses certain Telerik controls, you may run into the error below: System.InvalidOperationException: '~/Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd' is missing in web.config. RadStyleSheetManager requires a HttpHandler...
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