I worked on a case where the customer stated that their Web App was pretty small but when looking at the File System Storage metric in the Azure portal, they saw that is consumed almost 30 GB. The way I recommended they check it out is to use the KUDU console. I wrote an article […]
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I was asked a question about if the Application Request Router supports the HTTP 2 protocol on IIS 10 (not sure what it will be called). I was pretty confident that it did, but nothing beats a test to confirm it. So that is what I did. I used this article here that contains some […]
Read More →Beginning C# 6 Programming with Visual Studio 2015, co-author Benjamin Perkins The Beginning C# 6 Programming with Visual Studio 2015 book is now available, check it out. I had the opportunity to contribute a some chapters to it. What an awesome experience! There are lots of examples, experiences, discussions and reviews of the new features […]
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I was reading this article here which made a lot of sense. There was a bit of confusion on my part that was touched on as originally I assumed that ASP.NET 5 was the newer version of ASP.NET 4.6 while in fact it was a whole new branch of the feature. With branch I mean, […]
Read More →When you are experiencing slowness with your ASP.NET application, one place to check is if the application is being recycled. If the application is being recycled over and over again, then sessions and application settings are lost and it has a pretty big impact on your users and customers. A place to begin your investigation […]
Read More →I wrote an article about making an SSL certificate using MAKECERT here, but that example used the default SHA1 signature hash algorithm which is deprecating. Therefore, instead of the command shown in Figure 6 on the referenced article, I recommend using this command, that includes the SHA256 attribute, similar to that shown in Figure 1: […]
Read More →To setup Failed Request Tracing on an IIS 8.5 Server Core server, follow these steps. Start PowerShell Install the Web-Http-Tracing Role, using Install-WindowsFeature Configure the rule via a Remote Management IIS connection How to configure an IIS Server Core server for remote management Start PowerShell When you login to a Service Core installation of Windows […]
Read More →I have been messing around with Server Core, this is a much friendlier version when I need to closely manage physical hardware resources like CPU and memory. Plus, there are fewer updates that I need to install with the much more limited OS foot print. As I buld my IIS servers to test a reproduction […]
Read More →To configure an IIS 8.5 server running on Server Core, perform the following: Install the Web-Server role Install the Web-Mgmt-Service Enable Remote Management Set the WMSVC service to start automatically Create connection from Remote IIS Management Console In a situation where you need to closely manage physical resources, you might consider using the Server Core […]
Read More →When you look in the HTTP Error log (c:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR) and see a lot of Connection_Dropped_List_Full error reasons logged, it means that the client has dropped the connection so many times, in a short period, that the log in which the dropped connections are stored has become full. You might also see numerous 200.0.64 HTTP Status […]
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