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 Time Taken in list format. Supports sorting of these columns
- Double-click on a row and the trace file will open in Internet Explorer
- Completely remoteable and delegateable for hosted enviroments.
- Update via F5
- Install program included
Read more and download at source.
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 total free service
Ofcourse there might to alot of other services out there providing the same services. The 3 above are some I’ve used and can recommend dependable on the needs.
Anyone known any other great services ?
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 server-level through a Web Service Extension.
- Per-URL Security:
- WebDAV-specific security is implemented through WebDAV authoring rules that are configured on a per-URL basis.
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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
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 connection
- Throttling rules are configurable at the server, site, virtual directory, and file levels
- Fast Start experience for end users
- Extensible to add support for other media and file formats
- Fully integrated into the IIS7 administration and configuration models
- Set default and maximum throttling rates, and concurrent connection limits
- NEW – Dynamically adjust throttling to account for any available bandwidth as per a configured value (watch out for another post on this shortly)
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IIS Admin Pack (Technical Preview 1) for IIS 7.0 was released last week. It’s an extension and enhancement of IIS Manager, it includes 7 new features for IIS Manager that will help you in a bunch of different scenarios.
These UI modules and features are included:
- Request Filtering UI – This UI exposes the configuration of the IIS runtime feature called Request Filtering.
- Configuration Editor UI – This UI provides an advanced generic configuration editor entirely driven by our configuration schema. It includes things like Script Generation, Search functionality, advanced information such as locking and much more.
- Database Manager UI – This UI allows you to manage SQL Server databases from within IIS Manager, including the ability to create tables, execute queries, add indexes, primary keys, query data, insert rows, delete rows, and much more.
- IIS Reports UI – This extensible platform exposes a set of reports including some log parser based reports, displaying things like Top URL’s, Hits per User, Page Performance, and many more.
- FastCGI UI – This UI exposes the configuration for the FastCGI runtime feature.
- ASP.NET Authorization UI – This UI allows you to configure the ASP.NET authorization settings.
- ASP.NET Custom Errors UI – This UI allows you to configure the Custom errors functionality of ASP.NET
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Microsoft has released the Hyper-V Management Tool for Windows Vista. This update enables remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC0 role from Windows Vista.
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Microsoft has released Remote Server Administration Tool (RSAT), it’s now available for download.
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista SP1. It includes support for remote management of computers running either a Server Core or full installation option of Windows Server 2008.
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