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In June it appears that a new IIS debug/diagnostic tool will appear (see June IIS webcasts). Until that appears, we're still using the venerable IIState or ADPlus to troubleshoot IIS Crash/Hang situations. Recently on an email list a poster asked a query regarding some ASP code they had. Apparently IIS was "hanging" when the code ...

When using HTTP based authentication (e.g. Basic, NTLM, Digest, Kerberos), Internet Explorer (IE) will continue sending the same credentials for each subsequent request to the server until one of two things happens: either (a) the user closes their browser or (b) the server refuses the credentials with a 401 status code. This behaviour is ...

ASP.NET v2 Beta Quickstarts are now available. Microsoft SQL Server Report Pack for Internet Information Services (IIS) is also now available for download from the Microsoft website. This provides a set of 12 sample reports that can be run against IIS Logfiles imported into SQL Server. Requires SQL Server Reporting Services.

A friend of mine recently asked whether it would be possible to create a listing of each website on a server, and it's current state (stopped, started etc). Having each site as a link to the actual site would be an added bonus. Something like: Site State Default Web Site Started Sharepoint Administration ...

A common issue in various IIS forums is how to diagnose or troubleshoot HTTP 401 or 403 status issues (obviously 500 Internal Server Error is another issue, but I'll deal with IIS debugging in another post). I've done up a diagram illustrating the request processing pipeline, indicating the order in which IIS 6.0 processes incoming requests, and ...

Well, it's a little late, but I finally got around to processing the new and updated KB articles for February. Here they are, for IIS and some pertinant related technologies: An access violation may occur when you use an ISAPI filter in IIS 6.0 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=892988 You may receive an error message when you browse an IIS ...