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There often arises a need to figure out what may have changed on a system, either due to a specific issue or even to compare the difference between two systems. Today I would like to introduce you to the Windows System State Analyzer utility. Unless you are a developer or tester, you probably have never [...]
Apr
5
2010
5
2010
System State Analyzer – Ask the Performance Team
Jan
15
2010
15
2010
Ask the Directory Services Team : Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Group Policy Central Store
Article that highlights some of the problems with using a Group Policy Central Store along with Windows 7 and 2008 R2. Great timing, I just finally got around to changing to a central store a month ago, and now I see that I will probably need to change back.
Mike here again to help bring clarity [...]
Jan
5
2010
5
2010
Internet Information Services 6.0 may not function correctly after installing KB973917
Consider the following scenario. You have an Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 web server running on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. The Microsoft update KB973917 gets installed on the server. After installing KB973917, the IIS 6.0 application pools cannot start up successfully. An inspection of the event logs show that the IIS worker processes [...]
Jul
30
2009
30
2009
The Storage Team at Microsoft – File Cabinet Blog : Dealing with stale data on File Servers
Are your file servers full of stale data slowing down your backups and taking up valuable space? Do you have no time to figure out how to deal with it or which piece of software you need to buy to do it for you? In Windows Server 2008 R2, this is a 5 minute job [...]
Jul
30
2009
30
2009
Jose Barreto’s Blog : Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) at TechEd 2009
Funny, I thought I had been following Windows Server 2008 R2 pretty closely, but somehow I had completely missed that they were adding a file classification system.
I wanted to call your attention to four new blog posts this morning from Nir Ben Zvi (Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft File Server Team) and Matthias Wollnik [...]
May
28
2009
28
2009
Focus Shift to Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2
I’ve spent the last several weeks since MMS getting a feel for the new technologies coming with Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Our company had a very limited deployment of Windows Vista (mainly is was just IT people), so we never really put a lot of effort into getting the most out of it. [...]
Apr
8
2009
8
2009
404 Error uploading files to IIS 7 with Front Pager Server Extensions
We had a new hosting server that was displaying a 404 File not found error when trying to upload a 32MB .mp3 file to the server. The problem is that by default, IIS 7 limits upload files to 30MB. To change this setting, you can directly edit the web.config file, or install the IIS 7 [...]
Mar
31
2009
31
2009
You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6
This article apparently applies to IIS 7 as well. I was having problems with the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions when trying to administer a site from the server itself. The main admin page would open, but when I tried to open a particular site’s admin page I would get a 401 error. The first method [...]
Mar
10
2009
10
2009
Plugin upgrade Failed in WordPress Using IIS 7
Since I have been running WordPress on IIS 7, I have been unable to use the WordPress integrated Plugin update features. When I am in plugin manager, and click on the link that says Upgrade Automatically, I get the following error:
Upgrade Plugin
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/download-monitor.2.2.3.zip
Unpacking the update
Removing the old version of the plugin
Could not remove [...]
Mar
8
2009
8
2009
IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider Documentation
The IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider is a PowerShell Snap-In that allows you to manage IIS7 configuration and run-time data. It gives easy access to Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications, Virtual Directories, request in flight, Worker Processes and .NET Application Domains within Worker Processes.
Follow the subsequent walkthroughs. They cover the comprehensive functionality of the IIS 7 [...]