Did you know: Configure WebDAV to redirect a User/Group to a specific folder in IIS 7 / 7.5 – Part 2

by vivek 2/5/2010 8:53:12 AM
In Part 1, we created a simple WebDAV site which allow all authenticated users to access the WebDAV site at the root level. Now, we will see how we can configure WebDAV such that a user when authenticated is redirected to his authorized content folder only. PART I – Modify a simple WebDAV site for User Authorization Click on the Web Site (WebDAV Site in our case) In the Features view, double click on Authentication and verify if you have Windows Authentication enabled ... [More]


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Did you know | IIS 7 | WebDAV

Did you know: Configure WebDAV in IIS 7 / 7.5 – Part 1

by Vivek 2/5/2010 4:51:00 AM
Do you really need WebDAV? Well, there are pros and cons of using WebDAV and you can search the Internet to get better understanding of the same. I would use WebDAV because one of it’s unique "Lock" feature which is not available in FTP / FTPS. You can enable locking such that multiple WebDAV clients do not try to update content at the same time which prevents overwrite. Today we will see how to configure WebDAV in IIS 7 / 7.5 and different Authorization Rules yo... [More]


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Did you know | IIS 7 | WebDAV

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for IIS - 3

by rahul 1/26/2010 4:58:40 AM
In the last couple of posts you’ve seen collection and manual analysis of Performance data. In this post let’s automate the analysis using one of the really fantastic tools called PAL – Performance Analysis of Logs. Download it from CodePlex. Ensure that you have installed all the pre-requisites… 1. Log Parser 2.2 Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Win... [More]


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Performance | Troubleshooting | IIS

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for IIS - 2

by rahul 1/21/2010 4:25:40 AM
In my previous post, I have shown the configuration of perfmon counters. Let’s talk about how to analyze it now. Before you do anything else, read the following articles… IIS 6 Performance Counters Suggested Performance Counters to Watch (IIS 6.0) ASP.NET Performance Counters I know it is a lot of stuff to go through, but then to master drawing, you must learn about the brushes! To manually monitor some counters, you must add the .blg file that got created earlier when you stopped... [More]


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Performance | Troubleshooting | IIS

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) counters for IIS - 1

by rahul 1/21/2010 3:48:47 AM
If you consider troubleshooting as an art, Perfmon will be one of the brushes – almost like sable. If you master it well, you can not only tell a lot about your server’s performance, you will also be able to take a lot of actions pro-actively even before anything breaks down. In this post, let me quickly show how you can create various counters and set it up on your IIS/SharePoint Servers.     Click Start –> Run –> Perfmon (Click Ok)     Right click... [More]


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Performance | Troubleshooting

Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type in IIS 7 / 7.5

by vivek 1/18/2010 8:42:35 PM
Today one of my colleague came across a WebDAV issue where a customer was getting the error “Error: Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type 'add' with combined key attributes 'users, roles, path' respectively set to '*, , *'” when he would try to open WebDAV Authoring Rules feature in IIS 7. The error message clearly states that we have duplicate entry in the applicationHost.config file. <webdav> <authoringRules> <add users="*" path="*&quo... [More]


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Unable to reinstall IIS 7 on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008

by Vivek 1/18/2010 1:14:00 PM
Recently I came across an issue where a customer was unable to reinstall IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008. The issue started happening after they upgraded some vendor CGI application that was hosted on IIS. I used the CBS.log which is located at C:\Windows\Logs\CBS folder. Since IIS 7 is all modularized every component you select in IIS will install and uninstall module wise. You will see the CBS logfile has detailed information on what is the new component that is about to be installed and the ... [More]


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IIS 7 | Troubleshooting | Win 7

Enable Instant Search in Microsoft Outlook

by vivek 1/15/2010 12:46:46 PM
This post is a bit off the track to my usual IIS topics. I am not a big fan of desktop search software's and I don’t like unwanted software's hogging on my memory or CPU. I have heard a lot of good things about this Instant Search in Outlook and though I will go ahead and enable it. Today when searching for some text in my Microsoft Outlook 2010 beta, I saw “Click here to enable Instant Search”. Clicked on the notification bar and that popped out a message Looks li... [More]


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Tips and Tricks | Troubleshooting

Did you know: FTP Publishing… in IIS 7 / 7.5

by Vivek 1/13/2010 6:45:00 PM
Here’s the situation, you have published a Web site and you will need to upload new content on your Web site every week or fortnight. You would have to create a new FTP site and point it to the Web site content folder to allow you to do that. In IIS 7 / 7.5, you have a new feature called FTP Publishing. You can now automatically add FTP feature to your existing Web site. Here’s how you enable and configure FTP Publishing in IIS 7 / 7.5. Installing FTP in IIS 7 / 7.... [More]


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Did you know | FTP 7 | IIS 7

The object identifier does not represent a valid object. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800710D8)

by Vivek 1/11/2010 5:44:00 PM
Today I came across an issue where the customer is getting “The object identifier does not represent a valid object. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800710D8)” when you try to start the Web site. Looking at the IIS Manager, the Web site status shows: Looking closer, found the Web site identifier is set to 0. This is not a valid identifier. Tried “net start WAS” this stopped W3SVC as well. Now, ran the command “net start W3SVC”. Checked the System Event log and we see: Checked Appl... [More]


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