David Wang
David Wang on IIS, ISAPI, Exchange, Virtual Server, and whatever else I fancy...
Why IIS6 Application Pool Recycle Events are not logged
Question: Hi, I would like IIS to log application pool recycle events. I followed this article...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/28/2006
Why IIS6 can send invalid HTTP Responses
Question: Hello All, My client has a IIS 6.0 with some static pages configured in it. My application...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/28/2006
IIS Diagnostics Toolkit a la carte
Last month, after more than a half year of wranging with the Windows OOB process, we finally...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/27/2006
HOWTO: Run IIS6 in native Worker Process Isolation Mode
Question: I've got a box running fine these days, but now I want to experiment a bit. I have a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/27/2006
Weekend at the Washington Wineries
Lately, I have been a bit more focused on doing my day job of working on IIS7... Yeah yeah, I got my...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/27/2006
Office Move 2006, Part 2
I finally got around to setting up and re-arranging my office after the completion of the Office...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/21/2006
Office Move 2006
For the next several days (through the weekend), the entire IIS team has been evicted from our...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/16/2006
Why ISAPI Filters can load in some but not all websites on a Domain Controller
I recently encountered this question from multiple users simultaneously, and while the behavior...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/13/2006
Blog Upgrade, Part 2
Since the last time I blogged about the blogs.msdn.com upgrade, a lot of things have improved and...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/12/2006
HOWTO: Retrieve and Interpret ISAPI Filter Status
Question: Is there way to script a check on the success or failure of the Filter, ie a vbscript...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/11/2006
Does IIS6 truncate HTTP headers at a hard-coded limit?
Question: Using IIS the HTTP_ACCEPT header server variable received from the client appears to have...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/11/2006
Can I write an ISAPI Filter using Managed Code?
Question: Hi, Is it possible to write an ISAPI filter equivalent (IHttpModule imlementation?) using...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/10/2006
HOWTO: Address random 403 errors that cause images to not display
Question: We are running IIS 5.0 on Win XP Pro, with dual core processors and 1 GByte of memory....
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/08/2006
ASP Startup/Shutdown Anomalies on IIS6?
Question: This was posted earlier in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general; it was suggested I ask...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/07/2006
On IIS Team Blogging
I was randomly browsing blogs on blogs.msdn.com following the recent Community Server upgrade, and I...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/06/2006
HOWTO: Sharepoint and CustomAuth, Part 1 - Soliciting Questions
I have been getting a bunch of private requests from many people asking me variations of the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/05/2006
Lumiere
Ok, this is something non-techie and more "off-topic" than usual, but hey, I think it is still...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/04/2006
Unicode and ISAPI Filters
Question: How can one use GetHeader api of PHTTP_FILTER_PREPROC_HEADERS to retrieve fields, such as...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/04/2006
ASP Application, Large Memory Needs, and 64bit IIS6
Ok... I still have not gotten around to writing that uber blog entry/guide on the ins and outs of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/02/2006
HOWTO: Replace an ISAPI DLL on a Live Server
Recently, I noticed that I was returning into the bad habit of making just newsgroup replies instead...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/29/2006
Does Virtual Server support multiple Floppy and CDROM drives?
Question: on a VM, is it possible to have simultaneously 2 CDROM, 2 Floppy drives, real or virtual?...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/28/2006
Remote UNC Shares and the IIS Manager UI
Sigh... I get a lot of ambiguous and undetailed questions... and then users wonder why my responses...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/27/2006
Fix for Metabase Import Export from the UI
Question: Hello David, I was having issues which are identical to this post:...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/27/2006
Thoughts on Application Pool Recycling and Application Availability
Question: I am running IIS 6.0. We are currently trying to incorporate our application pools to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/26/2006
Security considerations of UseSharedWPDesktop on IIS6
Question: In the section "Number of Application Pools That Can Be Configured" of the document:...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/26/2006
HOWTO: Install and Use CustomAuth on IIS 6
It never ceases to amaze me how easily users will download and install arbitrary binaries from...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/24/2006
To TiVo or not to TiVo. That is the Question.
A little over two years ago, I purchased a condo out in suburban Seattle (in Issaquah on Cougar...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/20/2006
New Year 2006
Ok, I originally had grandiose plans of finishing up many of my queued up blog entries during my...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/18/2006
HOWTO: Delete Web Service Extensions that cannot be normally Deleted
Question: We installed ServletExec ISAPI for use with ESRI's ArcIMS map server software. We decided...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/26/2005
IIS and Virtual Server Conversations Part 2
Question: I am a 'nuts&bolts' guy - I need to know what kind of nuts and bolts to use for what...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/24/2005
IIS and Virtual Server Conversations
Question: In preparation to installing Virtual Server, and acknowledging the fact that it needs IIS,...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/24/2005
Does IIS Forward Requests?
Question: Hi, I have situation where I use JRun or Tomcat as servlet container with IIS (5.0 or...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/23/2005
Poor ASP Performance on IIS 6.0 in Windows Server 2003 SP1?
Question: Hi David, Do you have any idea whatsoever of why ASP output is not buffered and the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/23/2005
About w3wp Memory Usage and Any Benefits to Stripping Application Extensions in IIS6?
Frequently, users ask about the "footprint for IIS6"... usually in reference to mass-hosting since...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/21/2005
HOWTO: Compile and Use my ISAPI Code Samples
Since I get this following question on how to compile/use my ISAPI code examples quite a bit, I...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/20/2005
HOWTO: Diagnose one cause of W3SVC failing to start with Win32 Error 193 on 64bit Windows
I recently came across an interesting new variation of "failure" related to enabling WOW64 that can...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/14/2005
How IIS6 Compression Schemes interact with ISAPI Filters
Question: Hi we configure IIS6 for HTTP compression for static and dynamic pages. And its priority...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/14/2005
DebugDiag - The Saga to RTM, Continued
For the past several days, I have spent a lot of time mired in the very bureaucracy that I...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/14/2005
Child URL Execution and SSI #exec, Redux
Ok, I now have gotten questions about SSI #exec behavior on IIS6 for both ISAPI (ASP) and CGI (Perl)...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/13/2005
HOWTO: Synchronize User Credentials in IIS
Question: Hello, I recently had to modify a domain administrator account on my system and as a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/07/2005
HOWTO: Redirect the browser to a new URL based on Referer
While I do not recommend users to freely write ISAPI Filters and install them on IIS, there are...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/07/2005