February 2012 - Posts

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Tweet Below is a guest-post by Terri, one of the managed Windows support engineers at OrcsWeb. If you’ve ever run into the situation where you want to analyze performance data on Windows Server and don’t know what counters to collect …...
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Update: Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m really excited to be able to give you an update on our strategy and product roadmap for big data, especially around our embrace of Apache Hadoop as part of our data platform. As you may remember, at the PASS Summit last October we laid out our...
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Microsoft's CQRS Journey Project to Take Community Contributions by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

My colleague Grigori Melnik has a great blog post about the CQRS Journey project, which aims to deliver the source code for a complete, working reference implementation (an end-to-end sample app) that illustrates the key concepts, patterns, and approaches...
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SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website running...
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ASP.NET Web API (Part 1) by ScottGu's Blog

Earlier this week I blogged about the release of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta .  ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  One of the improvements I’m most excited about is the support...
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Open Source Plug-in Integrates Microsoft Live@edu with Moodle by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As you know, educational institutions across the globe face the challenge of trying to meet accelerating technology demands with limited budgets. That is why I am really pleased to report that, today, Moodlerooms has released an open source plug-in that...
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IIS FTP Troubleshooting-Week 48 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . This lesson covers ways to troubleshoot IIS FTP. When it works, it works well, but if you run into issues getting an FTP account working it can sometimes be difficult to resolve. This video will help you understand...
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta by ScottGu's Blog

A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta .  This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compatible...
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Status Codes UI: Know the meaning of your Status Codes by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A lot of times I come across people who can read the IIS logs but cannot understand the meaning of the status codes mentioned. As always, they resort to a search engine to find out the meaning. Had some free time so I cooked up this little IIS 7 UI module...

FTP Firewall Settings, Active vs. Passive, and FTPS Explicit vs. Implicit-Week 47 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . Have you ever wondered what FTP Active mode or Passive mode means? Do you have a good understanding of the FTP data channel or control channel? It can be difficult to fully understand FTP, which firewall ports to...
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ASP.NET and IIS Performance Troubleshooting Tools: FREB, Perfecto, and PerfView by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you have an ASP.NET application running on IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 that is experiencing intermittent delays, you have three powerful troubleshooting tools at your disposal that you might not have known about: FREB , Perfecto , and PerfView . 1) IIS Failed...
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Flush IIS HTTP and FTP Logs to Disk by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand.  The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb).  This can make troubleshooting difficult when you don’t receive immediate access...
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Using URL Rewrite to Insert Different Scripts Based on Browser Type by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I just stumbled across a piece of sample code that I had written several months ago for a coworker, and I thought that I'd share it with everyone. Here's the scenario: my coworker asked me if it was possible to have different client-side scripts...
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Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN by Silverlight and Windows Phone SDK

It was recently brought to my attention that we have done a poor job of evangelizing the Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN . These guidelines were previously available in PDF format, but a few months ago a couple of folks worked really hard to bring...
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