If you haven't properly leveraged compression in IIS, you're missing out on a lot!  Compression is a trade-off of CPU for Bandwidth.  With the expense of bandwidth and relative abundance of CPU, it's an easy trade-off.  Yet, are you sure that your server is tuned optimally?  I wa...

Rob Bagby has a great post on creating self-signed certificates for IIS7, including a screencast showing how to walk through the steps. It's not that hard to do, but if you haven't done it before it can be non-trivial....

It’s that time of year (actually that time of two years) again and my SSL certificate renewal is up on www.west-wind.com. Late last year I switched to a new Web Server box and in the process switched the server OS too to Windows Server 2008 64 bit. At the time I had no issues taking the certificat...

I don't know about you, but that title sounds odd to me.  Why on earth would you run the LAMP stack on Windows?  Well for one thing LAMP commonly refers to Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.  So running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 really means running it in a virtual machine and the only s...

Question: Hello We have a legacy x64 ISAPI extension that runs without problems in Win 2003 64bit - IIS 6.0. But in Win2008 EBS Security Manager setup, IIS 7.0 Default Application Pool's WOW64 / Enable32BitApp property is enabled by default, and this makes x64 ISAPI extension DLL to fail loading. By...

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 adds some significant new functionality to the manageability and customization of error messages. The three main areas of improvement when compared to IIS 6.0 are Custom vs. Detailed error pages, better configurability of custom errors, and language-specific c...

Wyatt is a bit buried under work for a few weeks, so I will be your new source for Microsoft news and updates for a little while. It’s been a bit of a slow news week for .NET, so at least I get to start off slowly. This week, the big story that most people are talking about is still the ASP.NET MV...

Here are the notes I took during my Windows Vista Ultimate x64 installation on my HP 6910p notebook.  The notes below were written primarily for my team but I like to share. In case you were wondering, the HP 6910p has performed remarkably well with Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and Windows Server...

  Lately there has been a great deal of discussion about WS2008 Core amongst the Web Platform Architect Evangelists and several of the great people in the IIS and Commerce/Hosting product teams. Ever since I first learned of LongHorn Core (now Windows Server 2008 Core), I was very excited about...