Month: March 2008

IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer Released

Another great tool has been released. The IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer is an add-on for the Failed Request Tracing (FRT) feature of IIS 7.0. In FRT you are able to troubleshoot and do tracing. This tool provides a GUI interface for all those FRT logfiles. IIS7 Trace Viewer Features Trace View icon per site. Automatically enumerates all your trace files Shows trace filename, file size, file date, requested Url, HTTP status code, Application Pool and …

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Measure Website Performance

It’s always hard as a website admin to continuously measure your site to make sure it performs the best at all times, it’s therefore recommendable to use external tools and services for these measures. Here’s my list of Website Performance Measuring Tools. Keynote – Awesome service and features, but more expensive Webperform – Nice features and basic monitoring is free (1 website and the diagnostics module) IT Scales – Provides the simple needs and a …

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WebDAV for IIS 7.0

Microsoft just keeps releasing modules for IIS 7.0. A few weeks ago the WebDAV module for IIS 7.0 was released. The new WebDAV module comes with new features: Integration with IIS 7.0: The new WebDAV extension module is fully integrated with the new IIS 7.0 administration interface and configuration store. Per-site Configuration: WebDAV can be enabled and configured at the site-level on IIS 7.0, which differed from IIS 6.0 where WebDAV was enabled at the …

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New TechNet Forum (MSCOM)

A few weeks ago Microsoft launch a new Forum on TechNet about hosting, more specific about Microsoft.com Engineering Operations. Come join us in discussions that are focused on Engineering Operations. Ask questions, give us your insights, help us build the community of folks that are engaged in real-world systems engineering. Direct link: MSCOM TechNet Forum

Bit Rate Throttling module

Last week Microsoft released the final version of Bit Rate Throttling (BRT) module for IIS 7.0. It’s a cool module for everyone hosting A/V content, such as podcasting etc. Scott Hanselman has done a great post on his blog about BRT, where he covers the senario with podcasting. The key features of BRT are: Automatically reads the encoded bit rate information from each defined media file type Per-response bandwidth limiting on progressive downloads for every …

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