March 2008 - Posts

• IIS7 - post #64 - Various goodies for your IIS 7 environment.

  The IIS team has been busy releasing all kinds of great stuff. Now that IIS 7 is production and extremely extensible, they have some new items available. Check them out. IIS 7 Admin pack technical preview #1 http://blogs.iis.net/rlucero/archive/2008/03...(read more) Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:35 PM from Steve Schofield Weblog | (Comments Off) Filed under: IIS

• Log Parser, unique page views and unique IP's

  I've been working with Log parser lately and wanted to pass along a couple queries. I have a in-depth filter that involved using three Log parser functions ( EXTRACT_EXTENSION , EXTRACT_FILENAME , EXTRACT_PATH ). Each have their own purpose but combined...(read more) Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:18 PM from Steve Schofield Weblog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Logparser

• IIS 7 - post #63 - Add IIS_IUSRS group to SQL 2005 local security

  I had an interesting post @ forums.iis.net about adding the IIS_IUSRS group (replacement for IIS_WPG) to a SQL Server 2005 local server. If you try to add the group using MachineName\IIS_IUSRS, but if you put BUILTIN\IIS_IUSRS. That works. Here is the...(read more) Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 11:24 PM from Steve Schofield Weblog | (Comments Off) Filed under: IIS

• IIS7 post #62 - IIS7 Resource Guide book from MS Press

  I'm excited to announce I was a contributing author to the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit by MSPress. The book was released on 3/5. There was multiple IIS team contributing to the team, Olga Londer, Mike Volodarsky , Carlos Aguilar...(read more) Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 11:13 PM from Steve Schofield Weblog | 1 Comments

• Detecting permission issues using auditing and process monitor

  I was working on a post @ http://forums.iis.net about a permissions issue. One of the first things I recommend is use Process Monitor. I honestly think this tool should be built into the OS. My 3 suggestions, do you run Filemon, Regmon and is auditing...(read more) Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:35 AM from Steve Schofield Weblog | 1 Comments Filed under: Troubleshooting