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January 2008 - Posts

New in IIS 7 - App Pool Isolation

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:47 PM by Ken
In previous versions of IIS, it has sometimes been difficult to isolate web application pools from each other. If multiple web application pools are configured to run as the same identity (e.g. Network Service) then code running inside one web application Read More...
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OT: You can get certification for Home Server, Media Center and other sundry topics - awesome!

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 2:34 PM by Ken
Well, I'm writing a blog post on IIS application sandboxing, and this item crosses my inbox. It appears that all the time spent mucking about with Windows Home Server , and Windows Media Centre might now actually result in MCTS certification . So, Read More...
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IIS syncronisation tool - tech preview released

Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:59 AM by Ken
Hi, For all those wondering what options you have post-Application Center 2000 for synchronisation (let alone load balancing etc), the IIS Product Group has released a technical preview of a new tool: msdeploy.exe. This tool can sync or migrate: IIS 7.0 Read More...
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Windows Hyper-V and Wireless adapters - using RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Service)

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:33 PM by Ken
I see that Ben Armstrong has posted instructions on how to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to give your Hyper-V virtual machines access to networks via a wireless adapter. However ICS does not appear to work if the network that your wireless Read More...
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Moving a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machine

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 7:32 PM by Ken
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V stores a list of virtual machines in %systemroot%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\virtualisation\Virtual Machines. In that folder are a set of symbolic links, that are linked to the actual config files for each virtual machine. Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V backup (Dell RD1000 review)

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:24 PM by Ken
Meta: IIS and Kerberos Part 6 is coming (for anyone interested in IIS still reading this blog) The Windows Server 2008 backup feature no longer supports direct backup to disk (you'll need third party backup software to do that). You can backup to Read More...
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Review Dell XPS M1330 (compared to Sony SZ48)

Posted Monday, January 7, 2008 9:04 PM by Ken
Well Frank's posted the various gadgets he's accumulated , as IT Pro, I've been accumulating a few things in the last month (a new LTO2 tape drive, a 5GB Toshiba PCMCIA hard disk, a Dell 24" monitor, and other boring stuff). One thing Read More...
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IIS 7.0 WebDAV module (beta) released

Posted Sunday, January 6, 2008 1:45 PM by Ken
Well it seems that the IIS product is just sneaking in the final bits and pieces missing from IIS 7.0 at this very late stage of the Windows Server 2008 release cycle. Spotted on Robert McMurray's blog is a GoLive Beta release of the IIS 7.0 WebDAV Read More...
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IIS 7.0 Health Model published, and MOM 2005 MP for IIS 7.0 (beta) released

Posted Saturday, January 5, 2008 7:51 PM by Ken
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Spotted on Mike Volodarsky's blog is an announcement that the Health Model for IIS 7.0 has been published on Microsoft TechNet . This describes the various error conditions that IIS 7.0 (and related Read More...
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