IIS Field Readiness - blog of the European IIS team

This blog deals with troubleshooting IIS and ASP.net as well as web related technologies in production environments - tips and tricks on development and product updates

HTTPREPLAY 2.1 released with IE11 support

A new release of HTTPREPLAY/ STRACE is now available at the following...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/29/2013

IISRESET internals

I recently worked on an incident dealing with IIS6/Windows 2003 and IISRESET failing on the 1st...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 10/08/2013

Working with ScriptManager and AddHistoryPoint on Master Pages with ASP.net WebForms

While working on my bookmarking site (www.linqto.me), I came up against the following problem: how...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 09/16/2013

Uploading large file to IIS 7.5 or 8 using file input element

I've recently worked on a very interesting file upload issue where my customer was hitting a 2 GB...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 06/19/2013

Windows could not configure one or more system components: when upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8

Last weekend I wanted to upgrade my home workstation from Windows 7 Utimate to Windows 8...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 04/12/2013

IIS 7/7.5 et la génération d’un log Handle suite à une erreur 500 provoquée par un lock que personne ne semble détenir

Au cours d'un incident, nous avions un lock qui générait une erreur 500 alors que...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/14/2013

Cannot complete the installation of a certificate on IIS. Error "The signature of the certificate cannot be verified" 0x80096004

J'ai récemment travaillé sur un problème d'installation d'un certificat Web...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/14/2013

When wrong permissions affect cipher being used for TLS connection

The information from this blog POST has been compiled with the help of the following engineers:...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/14/2013

ASP.NET Authentication test page

The information contained in this blog POST has been compiled with the help of the following...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/08/2013

Event ID 5188 – Source Microsoft-Windows-WAS : WAS ne démarre pas car le répertoire %SystemDrive%inetpubtempappPools n'est pas trouvable

Le service WAS (Windows Process Activation Service) génère un fichier de configuration...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/07/2013

L’authentification intégrée (Kerberos) résulte en une erreur avec une application JAVA (GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Fail to create credential. (63)) - No service creds)

Il est possible que certains prérequis soient nécessaires pour faire fonctionner...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/07/2013

UrlScan RemoveServerHeader Property Vs HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesHTTPParpametersDisableServerHeader

Cela fait plusieurs fois qu'une incompréhension résulte en l'ouverture d'un incident...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/07/2013

ASP.NET & consommation mémoire au démarrage du processus W3WP.exe

Une question revient régulièrement au support Microsoft au sujet de la consommation...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/02/2013

Activer le Fusion Log (Could not load file or assembly)

Qui n'a jamais eu l'erreur "Could not load file or assembly" ?Elle s'avère souvent être...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/02/2013

IIS 7.5 & Powershell sous Windows 2008 R2

Bonjour,J'ai récemment eu l'occasion de devoir me former au fonctionnement de Powershell pour...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/02/2013

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 12

The twelfth and final video in the series finishes the implementation of the Repository Pattern in...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 12/17/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 11

The eleventh video in the series looks at implementing the Repository Pattern in ASP.net WebForms....

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 12/17/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 10

The tenth video in the series looks at sorting and pagination and explores how the code used to...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 12/07/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 9

The ninth video in the series continues to finishes the discussion on Dynamic Data and goes on to...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 12/06/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 8

The eight video in the series looks at implanting dynamic data for WebForms, and replacing earlier...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/30/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 7

The seventh video in the series looks at implementing Routing in the application. Mostly associated...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/30/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 6

The sixth video in the series looks at implementing CRUD using strongly typed data binding. I update...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/23/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 5

The fifth video in the series continues to look at strongly typed data binding using Data Controls....

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/23/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 4

The fourth video in the series explores how to use model binding to access the model classes created...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/14/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 3

The third video in the series explores how to create the business logic layer of the application. I...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/14/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012 – Part 2

The second video in the series explores how to setup Forms Based Authentication with SQL server 2008...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 10/19/2012

Developing ASP.net 4.5 Webforms apps with Visual Studio 2012

In this first video we look at the out of the box template application that Visual Studio 2012...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 10/17/2012

HTTPREPLAY 2.0 available

A new release of HTTPREPLAY/ STRACE is now available (download link at the end of this article)....

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 09/27/2012

Easy debugging of CGI / FASTCGI application

Debugging CGI/FastCGI issues on IIS can be tricky because of the multiple processes involved...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 09/24/2012

C# compiler or Visual Basic .Net compilers fail with error code -1073741502 when generating assemblies for your ASP.net site

[January 2018 Updates:] This article applies to both Windows 2008R2 servers and Windows 2012R2...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 09/19/2012

TLS 1.2 handshake failure

Last month, I worked on an incident where a customer couldn't access a web site from Internet...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 08/29/2012

Should you always trust “You have a private key that corresponds to this certificate”?

Our team regularly handles incidents dealing with SSL certificates. During the verification process...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 08/29/2012

IIS 7.5 Architecture and Components – part 3

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : https://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture In...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 08/24/2012

IIS 7.5 Architecture and Components – part 2

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : https://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture In...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 08/22/2012

IIS 7.5 Architecture and Components – part 1

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : https://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture So...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 08/13/2012

Activating Dynamic Compression on the IIS 6 web-server

Although it has been almost 10 years since the Windows 2003 and the IIS 6 web-server came out, there...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 07/30/2012

Debug Diagnostic 1.2 – Creating a Memory Leak rule (unmanaged code)

This article will detail the action plan you can implement to create a rule in Debug Diagnostic 1.2...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/04/2012

Unable to install IIS Web Server Role – “The configuration registry key is invalid”

The last week of 2011 was a busy one in our team with the release of critical update MS 11-100....

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 01/04/2012

Troubleshooting 403.7 “Client Certificate Required errors” & Step by step to make sure your client certificate is displayed and selected

SSL Client certificate issues may be hard to troubleshoot. A list of common issues and...

Author: friis[at]microsoft.com Date: 11/15/2011

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