I attended TechReady15 and took part in a session from Mark Russinovich, the creator of Process Monitor and many if not all of the System Internals tools. He mentioned that there is no problem which Process Monitor cannot be used to help resolve. I put that to the test when I received the error message, […]
Read More →I am migrating all my articles to this site. I wrote this one long ago and posting here for historical reasons. I hope you enjoy it. After creating my Windows Phone application I wanted to test out how difficult or easy it would be to port that to a Windows 8 Store App. After some […]
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Setting up Application Initialization is pretty straight forward. Instructions can be found here or here. After setting it up the Application Initialization module with these parameters: autoStart = True startMode = AlwaysRunning when IIS was restarted the W3WP worker process was started up and running just as expected. Figure 1 shows a Process Explorer Properties […]
Read More →503’s are challenging HTTP status codes to resolve. Sometimes they happen what appears to be random and other times they are shutting down your entire website. When you see a 503 in your HTTP Error log or IIS Logs randomly I like to recommend that the default setting of the application pool recycle be changed. […]
Read More →Some time ago I wrote an article that provided information about how to implement customer error pages into IIS. That article was focused only on providing a custom error page in a single language. This article will cover instructions on how to configure IIS to use the language setting in Internet Explorer to choose a […]
Read More →Before joining Microsoft, I worked for many years in a large corporation supporting IIS. When there was a disruption of service management always wanted, and needed to know what happened. It is a standard practice that management wants to understand so that actions can be taken to prevent it from happening again. The OS team, […]
Read More →I see a lot of articles and posts about being able to bind different websites on the same server to port 443. This article is my take on the subject. It is possible to bind multiple websites hosted on the same server to port 443, but you can’t easily do it from the GUI because […]
Read More →If you haven’t already visited the troubleshooters section of the IIS.NET website, take a look at it here. You will find a number of good troubleshooting guides. I contributed an article that discusses using LogParser to troubleshoot performance or application issues/errors. I hope you find it useful.
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There are many reasons that threads can be blocked causing an application to hang. This is an example of one of those situations. I loaded a memory dump into WinDbg and loaded the PSSCOR2 extension. When I executed !syncblk, I received the following result shown in the following. 0:000> !syncblk Index SyncBlock MonitorHeld Recursion Owning […]
Read More →I know of 3 different Microsoft web server versions that can be used to host and test your web applications. They are: Internet Information Services (IIS) Cassini Web Server IIS Express IIS is the full version with many features and can be enhanced and extended in many, many ways. It can be installed on your […]
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