Peter Schmidt

MSCOM and ADFS

The MSCOM Team has done a post on their blog about their experience with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). ADFS is a Windows Server 2003 (R2) component that facilitates a trust between two or more organizations that will allow the sharing of multiple resources while maintaining each organization’s ability to manage their own set of users. One of the significant challenges faced when trying to implement any new solution is simply keeping the system available. …

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Recycling AppPools

The MSCOM Team did a great post on their blog a while back about recycling of IIS AppPools and how to verify and monitor the recycles. The post included some nice samples scripts for LogParser, to ease the monitoring. It’s great for availability and reliability but it can also be masking real problems with code running in your applications. If you are recycling too quickly based on memory limits you may have a memory leak …

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