iis7

msdeploy IIS 6 to 7 migration issue

I am trying to view the dependencies of my website on IIS 6.0 running on windows server 2003. When I type the following command, msdeploy -verb:getDependencies -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/1 I got the following error: C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>msdeploy -verb:getDependencies -source :metakey=lm/w3svc/1 Error: Object of t...

IIS7 and ARR and WCF... Can we load balance our app servers?

Perhaps I have the wrong product in mind for our needs -- but I want to know if I can use Application Request Routing (ARR) in IIS7 to load balance requests for our application tier. We have a farm of web servers. Each will be running our MVC web application. We load balance these servers through our web application firewall and loa...

Setting the gzip compression in asp.net

Is there a way to set the gzip compression at the web.config level or can I only do this in the IIS management console? ...

CrossDomainError on IIS7 Silverlight 3 WCF app

* Readers Beware: massive code dump, not for the faint of heart... * Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to deploy a Silverlight 3 app to IIS7 with a WCF Service. I think i've got most of it figured out however I still get a cross domain error for some reason. I'm leaning toward thinking that the service is not finding the client acc...

how i can get number of user hits from IIS 7.0

I want to get number of user at time for my site in IIS 7.0. Is there any ways to find it? ...

IIS anonymous authentication issue in Windows Search Server

Hello everyone, I am setting up Windows Search Server Express on Windows Server 2008. Here is Windows Search Server Express information. By default, it is using Windows authentication which needs server local Windows user name and account when access the search service from a remote machine. http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/se...

self-signed certificate issue in IIS 7.0

Hello everyone, I am setting up IIS 7.0 on a Windows Vista box. I am using self-signed certificate (by using built-in Create Self-Signed Certificate feature of IIS 7.0) on a web site. The I can browse from the local machine (the machine with IIS and web site) for the https address, for example, https://machinename/test.html, it works. ...

Cannot set InetMgr.exe as startup program in VS 2008 on Windows 7

When I try to set "C:\windows\System32\inetsrv\InetMgr.exe" as the startup program for a Visual Studio project (to test an IIS 7.5 extension), it is rejected with the message "The external program cannot be found". If I try to select the EXE manually by clicking the ellipses (...) button, the EXE is not in the folder. But if I access th...

Strange 64/32-bit GUID issue under IIS7

One of my team has recently come across an interesting glitch in the matrix. If anyone can help explain this it'd be great. It is possibly a complicated to explain, so bear with me. We are building an ASP.Net application. In it we have a simple "if" statement. Guid adminId = Guid.Empty; if (mRoles.Contains("Admin")) { adminId = mU...

Deploying TestSwarm on IIS7

Has anyone succeeded? I was able to get somewhere (with a PHP over FastCGI, MySql database, and URL Rewriter 2.0 Beta), but most of the code depends on the RewriteBase rule, which is not yet supported by the IIS rewriter. Needless to say, deploying it in the server root is not really an option... ...

Adding custom tasks to the web site page in IIS 7(.5)

Is it possible to add a TaskItem (or TaskList) to the website page (Web Objects Home Page)? I'd like to provide some contextual access to my addin and I can't seem to find a good integration point. ...

Receive notification of created / updated website as an IIS 7(.5) addin

Is there an events system in IIS 7 extensibility model that can notify an addin when a website is created (via the "Add Web Site" dialog) or when it's bindings are updated (via the "Edit Bindings" dialog)? I suppose it's possible to use WMI events, but I don't want to clash with asynchronous tasks that IIS might be performing after the ...

Lightweight servlet engine for serving java application via IIS

I have an old legacy java web application that I want to deploy on the same server as my asp.net-applications (running on IIS 7). And I need to have all applications running on port 80, so I can't just install two web servers on different ports. The java-application is really simple, just a couple of serverlets (no JSP) with functional...

In WiX how can I select an IIS website by name?

What I would like to do is show the installer user a list of the websites on their server and allow them to choose one (using the method described here: http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/13160/120/, which now seems broken see here for the core code). The installer would then create a virtual directory in the chosen website. Howev...

Significant Performance Decrease when moving from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 (IIS 6 to IIS 7)

Hello Folks: Our ASP.Net 2.0 web app was running happily along on Windows Server 2003. We were starting to see some of the limits of the environment approaching, such as memory and CPU usage spikes, and as we're getting ready to scale we decided it was time for a larger server with higher availability. We decided to move to Windows Se...

Cannot put breakpoint in an ASP.NET MVC view when running in IIS7

I'm forced to use IIS7 because Casini is only x86 and we are running with x64 ELMAH. Something I've noticed since I've switched is that I cannot set breakpoints in ASP.NET MVC views anymore. I'm not totally sure it's because of IIS7, is it? Does it happen to you as well? The Visual Studio (2008) project is configured to use the local I...

ASP.NET-MVC2 Preview 1: Are There Any Breaking Changes?

I was following Steven Sanderson's 'Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework' book. On page 132, in accordance with the author's recommendation, I downloaded the ASP.NET MVC Futures assembly, and added it to my MVC project. Then, without encouragement from the author, I downloaded, installed, and incorporated the ASP.NET MVC2 Preview 1 dlls into my pr...

Etags, II7, no web farm but getting 2 separate but different etags

We have a web server on II7. Upon watching the HTTP requests to our web server, we see an odd behavior. The server will return one of 2 etags. It's always one or the other, and there seems to be no pattern. Of course, this creates issues as the browser gets mixed signals and is commonly requesting the file. This Bi-modal behavior basica...

IIS 7, Classic Application Pool, 100% CPU Usage Problem

We had IIS 6 on Win 2003, We upgraded to Win 2008 and now our app is same, basically its a simple file server to resize images and cache them and deliver to clients. Since resizing requires more memory size, running under Pipelined Pool causes no more memory errors so we went back to Classic mode and there is no ther website, only one an...

IIS7 Compression

Hi Guys, I have searched around and havent really found an answer anywhere and this is still not working for me. I am using compression in IIS7 and it doesn't appear to be working. The code I am using is per <urlCompression doStaticCompression="true" /> <httpCompression cacheControlHeader="max-age=86400" sendCach...