Scott Forsyth's Blog
Postings on IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Webfarms and general system admin.
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SiteServerDetails–Details for Web Farm Nodes
Often times if you administer a web farm, or develop for a web farm, you want to know which node you’re currently on. This is useful is you want to know if your load balancers are balancing with the algorithm that you expect, or if you want to troubleshoot why a website fails just some of the time.
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ASP.NET AppDomain–What it is and why it’s important–Part 12 of 52 part series
AppDomains are a silent mysterious part of ASP.NET and IIS. It’s important for the web administrator to be aware of this building block of ASP.NET so that we can be aware of how changes to the system can affect production sites.
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Understanding Regular Expressions (focus on URL Rewrite)–Part 11 (Sub-Part 2 of 2)
This 2nd part (out of 2) on Regular Expressions covers the remaining tips necessary to get up to speed on a topic that at first seems daunting, but really isn’t that bad.
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Understanding Regular Expressions (focus on URL Rewrite)–Part 10 (Sub-Part 1 of 2)
Regular Expressions can seem difficult to understand. In today’s lesson I attempt to bring this down to earth and make it understandable and useful for the web administrator.
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URL Rewrite, ServerVariables, URL Parts, HTTP to HTTPS Redirect. Week 9
Last week I gave an intro to URL Rewrite; covering the basics and giving a real world example. This week I dive in deeper and cover ServerVariables, the parts that make up the URL and another real world example of redirecting HTTP to HTTPS.
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An Intro to IIS URL Rewrite–plus redirecting URLs to www-Web Pro Week 8 of 52
Today’s video post is an intro to URL Rewrite and the start of a few lessons on this powerful tool. Additionally I cover how to rewrite URLs to add the www to the domain name for the sake of search engine optimization (SEO).
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Issues getting Hyper-V Dynamic Memory to work in Win 2008 R2 SP1
On Wednesday Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 was made available for Technet and MSDN subscribers. It will be available as a public download Feb 22nd.
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Setting Host Headers for SSL Sites in IIS–Week 7 of 52
At first glance, the Host Header field is grayed out when applying host headers to SSL (HTTPS) sites in IIS 7.
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The SSL Bindings Issue–Web Pro Week 6 of 52
We have a chicken before the egg issue with HTTPS bindings. This video—week 6 of a 52 week series for the web administrator—covers why HTTPS bindings don’t support host headers the same as HTTP bindings do. In this video I show the issue and use Wireshark to see it in action.
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Slow boot from massive registry on a Hyper-V server: Fix
At OrcsWeb we started seeing some of our Hyper-V host servers taking longer and longer to reboot for patching or other maintenance. It got to the point that one server was taking longer than an hour to start up after a reboot.