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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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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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Enable Caching in IIS to Speed Performance

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 cache the content – so upon the next visit the browser will load the content […]

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IIS 7.x Shared Configuration

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 at the end for more resourceful tips from Rick. Before the release of Internet Information […]

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Log Parser: Pulling Valuable Data From IIS Logs

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 query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key […]

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IIS7 Mime Mappings

For very good reasons, not all extensions are recognized by IIS by default and may return a 404 error when trying to access them from your site. If you have need to add more extensions to be “allowed” – for example if you have embedded font files – you have a few different options. One […]

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Great Pointers For Analyzing Memory Crash Dumps

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 issue down to the exact line of code that’s […]

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Resolving the error: ~/Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd is missing in web.config.

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 registration in web.config. Please, use the control Smart Tag to add the handler automatically, or see the help for more information: Controls > RadStyleSheetManager at Telerik.Web.UI.RadStyleSheetManager.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) […]

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Troubleshooting SSL in IIS

Terri Donahue @ OrcsWeb was helping a client with an SSL problem recently and wrote up this nice guest post below to help anyone else who may be in a similar troubleshooting situation. ————————————————————- I encountered a very interesting SSL issue while resolving a problem for a client this week. An SSL certificate was installed […]

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How to set content expiration for your IIS7 site

Do you want to assure that client browsers will always download the latest copy of your page(s) rather than potentially pulling an outdated page from their local cache? You can enable and manage content expiration in IIS7 to control this at the server-side. Below is a walk-through of enabling this using the IIS7 Remote Management […]

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