LeanSentry: A better monitoring service for Windows server web apps by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

We've spent the last 5 years helping our clients build better websites on the Microsoft web platform. Eventually we got sick of logging into servers to debug IIS problems with appcmd, EventLog, windbg, and logparser. So we built LeanSentry, a realtime...

ASP.NET and IIS Performance Troubleshooting Tools: FREB, Perfecto, and PerfView by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you have an ASP.NET application running on IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 that is experiencing intermittent delays, you have three powerful troubleshooting tools at your disposal that you might not have known about: FREB , Perfecto , and PerfView . 1) IIS Failed...

Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

When working with a solution that contains numerous projects, I find myself often wanting to only build and run the currently selected project. Other projects in the solution might have build errors that I don’t want to resolve at the current time. By...

Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows with Wincache by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A few weeks ago I wrote a post that showed how to improve the performance of PHP applications on Windows by using the IIS output caching module. Using the output caching module can have significant positive impact on application performance since pages...
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Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows/IIS with Output Caching by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In this article, I’ll show you how to improve the performance of PHP applications on Windows/IIS by covering the What, When, and How of using the IIS Output Caching module. As background reading (or for the condensed version of my post), I suggest...
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Wiki: Gaining Performance Insight into SQL Azure by SQL Azure Team Blog

This article discusses how to gain insight into exactly what Transact-SQL statements are being submitted to the SQL Azure, and how the SQL Azure accesses the database to return result sets. Read the Wiki Article: Gaining Performance Insight into SQL Azure...
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Compression for Speed and Cost Savings by SQL Azure Team Blog

SQL Azure doesn’t currently support page level or row level compression like the enterprise edition of SQL Server 2008. However, you can implement your own column level compression in your data access layer to take advantage of the performance and cost...
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Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2 application in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

VS2010 Ultimate included IntelliTrace functionality by default.  IntelliTrace captures events (e.g. exceptions), and can affect performance of debugging. The typical performance hit is about 5% in the default mode (collection can be increased to...
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PAL - Performance Analyzer with IIS by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

PAL is a very good tool when it comes to analyzing perfmon data. This automated tool generates a nice report in html format which can be sent to customer’s directly. This tool is written by BizTalk PFE and few others. As this is a free tool, customers...
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IIS7 – Improving ASP.NET performance (concurrent requests) while on Integrated Mode by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you were a ASP.NET 1.1 developer, and faced some performance problems, I’m sure you would have come across the KB 821268 which talks about tweaking maxWorkerThreads, maxIoThreads in the <processModel>, minFreeThreads, minLocalRequestFreeThreads...
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IIS Security – Past and Present by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This topic has been covered many times both by Microsoft and non-Microsoft employees. However, I’ve recently been asked what the main features of IIS 7 are and have seen a great deal of misinformation about IIS security on twitter, blog posts and forums...
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Performance back to back at CodeCamp 08 by Matias Woloski's Blog

Tomorrow I will be at CodeCamp talking about performance on two different presentations. One of them is about the front end performance of web applications (a similar talk to the one presented at MIX last june), but this time I will do it with Paulo Arancibia...
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