Scott Forsyth's Blog

Here's a must-have cheat sheet for PowerShell.  Jeffrey Snover has put together an excellent doc that is well worth printing off and keeping handy for anyone working with PowerShell: 

Every once in a while I run across something so simple, yet so powerful, that I wonder why I've never heard of it before.  Today I came across one of those situations.

There are many times when it is worthwhile to create a custom machineKey for your web.config file.  This is worthwhile on a webfarm but also worthwhile on a stand-alone server so that your machineKey remains the same after an iisreset or application pool recycle. 

I use Remote Desktop Client dozens of times per day to administer remote servers.  With Windows Vista, I get an ugly prompt when connecting to Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server machines saying:

When Wally McClure came to Charlotte to give a talk on Atlas to the Charlotte User Group, I had an interview with him which is now live on Show #66 of the ASP.NET Podcast Show.  I didn't dive in too deep, but we discussed Webfarm hosting and some of the topics I covered in my TechEd 2006 talk in Boston, and some of the new upcoming features in IIS 7.0.

This has haunted me a few times in the past, so for my own sake I figured I would write a quick blog that I can reference in the future.  Hopefully others find it valuable as well.

I just arrived home from TechEd 2006 where I gave a breakout session on IIS6: Managing Effective Webfarms.  I have to say this was probably the best technical conference that I've attended.  I was scheduled to help out in the DEV and IIS7 booths and during that time I had plenty of time to discuss the inner workings with many of the IIS Program Managers and Developers that attended.  They are always enjoyable to talk to because of their intimate knowledge of the subject.