Having spent many years supporting web sites running on IIS one of the most challenging aspects was managing load. I was able to plan for near-term growth by tracking the CPU, Memory, total number of requests, etc… over time and once the utilization of these elements exceeded my threshold for what I considered manageable, it […]
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I wrote an article about the ability to enable Web Server Logging, Detailed Error Message, Failed Request Tracing and Application Logging here. In that article I discussed that you can download the logs using an FTP tool like FileZilla. You can also download the log files from within Visual Studio by performing the following. I […]
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I have written some instruction on how I setup a WebDAV installation that uses Windows Authentication and UNC here. An important concept to understand before you start setting up a WebDAV solution using this configuration is the difference in behavior when you are logged on and testing from the IIS server versus testing from a […]
Read More →If you are receiving a 404 error while accessing your custom domain, as shown in Figure 1, then you are most likely missing the link between your Azure App Service Web App configuration and your custom domain. Figure 1, 404 File or directory not found when mapping custom domain Before we move to the solution, […]
Read More →There have been many changes over the years with managing the IIS configuration using scripting. In IIS 6 using WMI which relies on the ADSI model is the recommended approach. However, with the introduction of IIS 7.5 and now IIS 8 there is a new way of doing things. This new way is via the […]
Read More →With the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0, you can enable the logging from within Visual Studio. I wrote another article which discussed how to enable Failed Request Tracing while logged into the Microsoft Azure Management console. You can review that article here. After installing the SDK, open Visual Studio and example the Server Explorer, […]
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The CryptoAPI 2.0 Diagnostics is a feature available on Windows Server 2008+ that supports the trouble shooting of issues concerned with, for example: Certificate Chain Validation Certificate Store Operations Signature Verification This article describes how to enable the CAPI2 Diagnostic, but for an in depth review of the capability, check here. Enable CAPI2 logging by […]
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There are many reasons why an application pools’ worker process (W3WP.exe) could be behaving badly. The best approach is to capture some memory dumps during the problem situation and then analyze them. The problem with that is the root cause is not always obvious, even after many hours of analysis and investigation. An alternative to […]
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NOTE: This solution does not implement paging and requires the retrieval of the entire result set. If your dataset is huge, I wouldn’t go this route. Other options, LIKE %text%, FULL-TEXT search, Lucene.Net…and many others… Check out another of my blogs where I defer the retrieval using a Delayed Action. Again, if you look hard […]
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In another blog I covered how to perform filtering using the ListCollectionView class on a datagrid. What I noticed on the implementation on a larger result set was a little lag in the response when characters were being entered into the filter textbox. The way it was implemented was for each character entered; perform a […]
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