It is common to install or uninstall Web Server features. You need these features to execute ASP.NET pages, perform logging, authenticate user requests, etc…. Figure 1 shows a sub-set list of features which you may choose to install. Figure 1, Add Roles and Features list, small example Try walking through the ‘Add Roles and Features’ […]
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If you ever receive “the event log file is corrupted” on Windows 2008 R2, try the following list of actions to fix it. Following these steps result in the recreation of the event logs. Open a command as an Administrator and enter “NET STOP EVENTLOG” as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, stopping event logging […]
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If you want to find out why a W3WP worker process is consuming so much CPU, you can use ProcDump. You might also use LogParser to look at the time-taken field, but to get to the root cause you will need to get deep into the source. Before you can get a memory dump, you […]
Read More →Performance problems are generally difficult to find the root cause of and fix. There are so many ‘touch points’ that where to start looking much less finding the root cause while the issue is happening, can be a challenge. I found these 4 Compression settings very interesting and a system administrator should review them and […]
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The Professional Microsoft IIS 8 book is now available, check it out. I had the opportunity to contribute a few chapters to it. What an awesome experience! There are lots of examples, experiences, discussions and reviews of the new features found in IIS 8. You can get an inside look at the contents on Amazon […]
Read More →If you have ever used a tool that allows you to view the request and response headers, you certainly know that there is some information being passed back and forth between the client and the server that is not simply visible. An example of possible fields can be found here or here. New in IIS […]
Read More →I really like to use ProcDump for troubleshooting crashes, memory/cpu utilization issues and hangs. I have written a number of other blogs that discuss how to use it here, here and here. The tool is small and unobtrusive, yet very powerful. The new version of the tool has recently been released and can be downloaded […]
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