These labs provide a group of debugging scenarios focused on helping you get some hands on experience in debugging the most common type of IIS issues. For example, hang/performance, crash and memory issues. Installation These labs are focused IIS 8.5, but can be run on the following versions of IIS IIS Version Operating System IIS […]
Read More →Search Results for: IIS labs
What’s new in IIS 10 – Microsoft Internet Information Services 10 New Features
With each version of Microsoft Windows Server comes a new version of Internet Information Services (IIS). With the recent release of Windows Server 2016 comes IIS version 10. Before I cover these new features, here are a few articles which I have already written which you may be interested in: What’s new in IIS 8.5 […]
Read More →How to check Azure App Service OS version, what version of IIS
This is a FAQ on GitHub which has a lot of information about 2016. If you are interested to find out which version of IIS or OS your Azure App Service is running on, you can check it like this. Check in KUDU Capture a Fiddler trace I wrote about KUDU here, just in case […]
Read More →Targeting a specific version of the .NET Framework
I find numerous opinions and understandings about side-by-side and in-place installations of the .NET Framework. Here is my favorite explanation of this “.NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0”. I also link to that same article in one of my IIS labs here, “Lab 5: Basic and Advanced […]
Read More →Enable Failed Request Tracing for an Azure App Service Web App
When you are experiencing slow performance on your Azure App Service #Microsoft a start is to look at the IIS logs, specifically at the time-taken column. This will confirm that indeed there are some slow requests and identify better how slow they are. If you want to take it one step further, you can enable […]
Read More →Create and deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API to Azure Windows
There are a number of things I want to accomplish with this and a few future articles: How to deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API to an Azure App Services Web App How to deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API to an Azure VM Check out some of my other articles I wrote in regards […]
Read More →Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used
I like to write stuff. As I personally use it for reference, instead of keeping it to myself, I often post it onto my blog here. Here is my list of most used WinDbg commands and what information I get for them. I was a big fan of PSSCOR, but since MEX is now a […]
Read More →500.19 Internal Server Error
I was building a new server to use while creating my IIS labs here, and got this error shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, 500.19 Internal Server Error These errors can be caused by numerous things, but in this case it was because I did not have ASP.NET installed And as you can see, in […]
Read More →MEX Debugging Extension for WinDbg
This has been my favorite WinDbg extension for a long time and I am very happy to see that it has been made public. It can be downloaded from here. To load the MEX extension, copy the MEX.DLL into the winext directory under which your WinDbg client is running. It can be placed any where […]
Read More →Setting up a hacking lab with Kali Linux and Metasploitable, Part 1
I’m not a hacker, I don’t see the good that can come from it really. But, I do want to know how to do it so I can take necessary precautions. Also, I read about hacking and wonder sometimes if it really is possible these days. The attack vector which exploits the vulnerabilities of humans, […]
Read More →