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Implementing Application Initialization on IIS 7.5

Another great post by Terri over at OrcsWeb that I think you’ll find beneficial. Here’s a brief intro and a link to the full post… Microsoft has released a new module for IIS 7.5 which provides the ability to ‘warm-up’ an application and provide a ‘pretty’ page to the end-user until the application is fully […]

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Orchard Memory Usage and Performance

A guest post by Rick Barber – a senior technical lead over at managed Windows host OrcsWeb: At OrcsWeb we recently came across an issue where a user was having performance issues with a bare-bones Orchard installation on a shared server. We tried to reproduce the issue and sure enough, any time the site was […]

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Magically Sync Machine Key for All Nodes in a Web Farm

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 key values for all ASP.NET versions on multiple Windows Server nodes in a web farm. […]

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Diagnosing Windows/Web Application Issues

Here’s a great video post over on Channel9 that you may find useful if you ever have to troubleshoot application issues. You can’t troubleshoot a problem effectively until you first know what the problem is. When applications encounter stability or performance issues in the production environment, obtaining an accurate problem definition is a key first-step […]

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URL Scan or Request Filtering in IIS7

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 Scan but also gives a tighter level of control over the settings and where they […]

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SQL Server restore failure and resolution

A friend on mine had a recent issue where the restore of a SQL Server backup file – taken on one server and being restored to a different one – wouldn’t complete. It would continually throw an error of: Server was unable to process request. —> File ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\TheDatabase_log.ldf’ is claimed by ‘YAF_log'(2) […]

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How to Backup a MySQL Database (Using Workbench)

Here’s a good post showing how to back up your MySQL database remotely – without administrative access – using Workbench. http://jeffgraves.me/2012/04/24/backup-database-using-mysql-workbench/  

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Orchard: Custom Content in Sub-Folders

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. You’ll get a 404 error. Orchard “traps” all requests and effectively kills them if it […]

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Check and optimize your site speed

Here are two great resources for testing your site speed and getting tips on how to improve upon the performance: http://www.webpagetest.org/ https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

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MVC3, Visual Studio 2010: Error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: Not implemented

Okay, so I’ve started tinkering with MVC3 just to get familiar with what more-and-more people are working with now from a Windows Internet development perspective. I have a development/test VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 so I figured I’d install it there and walk-through some of the online tutorials. Well, right out of the bat […]

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