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IIS 7.0 Forms Authentication and Embedded Media Players
One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content Read More...
Posted 16 November 08 05:04 by Mike Volodarsky | 5 Comments   
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When to restart IIS when making changes to your application
Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance. Read More...
Posted 12 September 08 02:02 by Mike Volodarsky | 5 Comments   
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Leverage the Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0
IIS 7.0 improves on the already solid performance of its predecessor in quite a few places. But the real power lies in the new capabilities IIS 7.0 provides that can significantly improve performance, scalability, and reduce operational costs of running web applications Read More...
Posted 02 August 08 08:40 by Mike Volodarsky | 7 Comments   
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Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing
When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line Read More...
Posted 01 August 08 12:25 by Mike Volodarsky | 4 Comments   
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Make your next IIS 7.0 web server a lean one
Among IT circles, IIS 7.0’s modularity is definitely one of its most welcomed traits. It promises a significantly reduced surface area, lightweight management overhead, and better performance. Ever wonder how far you can go with modularizing IIS 7.0? Read More...
Posted 17 June 08 12:04 by Mike Volodarsky | 6 Comments   
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The next step
It's been one week since I left Microsoft, and what a week its been! I dont remember the last time I was on so little sleep :) I'll be making some changes to www.mvolo.com and posting more info about the new stuff shortly. I have to say though Read More...
Posted 27 May 08 01:46 by Mike Volodarsky | 0 Comments   
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Connecting to IIS 7.0 configuration remotely with Microsoft.Web.Administration
IIS 7.0 provides a number of APIs that you can use to manage configuration remotely. This post provides the info and tools you need to configure remote access to IIS 7.0 configuration, including for use on Server Core installations. Read More...
Posted 26 May 08 11:20 by Mike Volodarsky | 8 Comments   
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Leaving Microsoft ...
After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. Looking back , I can say that my experience at Microsoft has been truly amazing. I got to ship two amazing Read More...
Posted 14 May 08 05:54 by Mike Volodarsky | 11 Comments   
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The IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book
The IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book is out! Coming straight from the IIS 7.0 team and some of our best MVPs, this should be the best IIS 7.0 book out there today ... Read More...
Posted 01 May 08 01:59 by Mike Volodarsky | 8 Comments   
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IconHandler 2.0: file icons in your ASP.NET applications
Since its release, IconHandler has been a pretty popular module (on its own and with the custom DirectoryListingModule ). Today, I am releasing v2.0 of IconHandler, which contains some much-requested functionality and fixes a few issues that people have Read More...
Posted 27 April 08 02:27 by Mike Volodarsky | 11 Comments   
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Mvolo.com moves again
Ever since I started blogging about IIS 7.0, I had the plan to do it on a server that was running the actual technology I was blogging about ... I deviated a little from the plan when I first stated out, making the first few posts using GoDaddy's Read More...
Posted 25 April 08 03:02 by Mike Volodarsky | 0 Comments   
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Creating portable ASP.NET applications that work on IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 Classic, and IIS 7.0 Integrated modes
ASP.NET applications in IIS 7.0 Integrated mode requires configuration changes if they define custom modules or handlers ... However, it is possible to create portable ASP.NET applications that can function in all three environments without configuration changes. Read More...
Posted 15 April 08 11:30 by Mike Volodarsky | 7 Comments   
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Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0
I've blogged quite a bit about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications in the past. A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas in one place. Now, you can find the same information for Visual Studio 2005, in a new article titled Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0. Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 12:05 by Mike Volodarsky | 6 Comments   
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Backing up and restoring IIS 7.0 shared configuration
Bill's recent post reminded me of a question I often get about backing up and restoring configuration when IIS 7.0 is being used in the Shared Configuration mode. In this mode, the applicationHost.config file is stored on a UNC share to allow multiple IIS 7.0 servers to share a single configuration file. Read More...
Posted 25 March 08 02:41 by Mike Volodarsky | 3 Comments   
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IIS 7.0 Bit-rate throttling module
Last week, the IIS team released bit-rate throttling module to the web. As the self-proclaimed daddy of the project (I designed and wrote the initial prototype in early 2007), I am very thrilled to see it out. The new IIS media team folks have done a Read More...
Posted 16 March 08 09:58 by Mike Volodarsky | 12 Comments   
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For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
Now, I work on advanced web server tech using IIS 7.0, .NET, and Windows Server 2008 and write about it in this blog.

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TechNet Magazine
>Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

MSDN Magazine
>IIS 7.0: Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
>Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications


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LeechGuard
IconHandler 2.0
DirectoryListing
HttpRedirection
IIS Auth for Wordpress
iisschema.exe
PortCheck.exe v2.0

Popular Posts

- ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0
- Develop IIS7 modules and handlers with .NET
- Troubleshoot IIS7 errors like a pro
- Troubleshooting 503 / "service unavailable" errors
- Troubleshooting "server not found" errors
- Create IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories
- Run Ruby on Rails with IIS FastCGI
- VS Debugging of ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista
- Stop hot-linking with IIS and ASP.NET

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