I'm Back...

After a long and very much needed hiatus, I have regained control of this blog and returned to blogging. For the curious reader, you can read about some of the happenings here. But, I am not one for dwelling on the past (except to learn and improve upon); I look forward to the future.

And speaking of the future... technology-wise, my day-to-day interests have moved up the application stack to Exchange, specifically the Calendaring, OOF, and Free/Busy components. Basically, whenever you use Outlook or OWA to schedule a meeting, look up an attendee's Free/Busy information, or toggle your own OOF on Exchange 2007 onward, you are looking at functionality that I am responsible for within Exchange... and that is just the beginning. So, I will certainly be offering tidbits and answering questions about that aspect of Exchange as well as others as I encounter them.

Of course, I will continue to write and answer questions about IIS and ISAPI since they remain woefully under-documented. Not much changes with ISAPI after IIS6 since it exists for compatibility. As for IIS7 and beyond... I was involved in a lot of the design discussions/reviews and co-inventor of the extensibility API introduced in IIS7, so I think I have a good idea how things SHOULD work at the core. ;-) Besides, most of the work on IIS7 and beyond should come in the form of additional modules/handler on top of the core extensibility API, so questions about them are really specific to those modules and not IIS...

Cheers!

//David

P.S. Yes, I am still working on answering the backlog of existing comments, and I have just re-enabled anonymous comments...

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 08, 2007
  Great come back, well, interestingly is IIS7 going to go live with Orcas, .NET 3.5 a better performance (load) in IIS7 compare to IIS6? Is IIS7 a longhorn server only feature? Thank you.

• Anonymous
  May 08, 2007
  atdino - IIS7 is available for both Vista Client and Longhorn Server. IIS7 has no direct ties to any .Net Framework version, as its managed extensibility API exists within ASP.Net 2.0+ onward. //David

• Anonymous
  May 08, 2007
  Welcome come back! I have a question about IIS6.0, I set DefaultAppPool's Recycle Worker Process in 60 minutes, the issue is request timedout at recycle piont, at this time  w3wp.exe PID changed. can you telll me how to configurate it and prevent timedout. thanks

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2007
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• Anonymous
  August 16, 2007
  I have read your blog about how IIS determines about downloading .exe files but I have strange problem with .CAB files. I have checked everything but not able to download .CAB files. Any ideas will be appreaciated.

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
  Corrections : for the above comment for batch file rename a1.txt  a2.txt and not rename a1.txt to a2.txt

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 02, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 02, 2008
  Dennis - you can run Virtual PC on XP Home to run a Virtual Machine to run older software like MSDOS 5.0, which can hopefully run your converted program in DOS. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx //David

• Anonymous
  February 03, 2008
  David That was just the shot. Many, many thanks With Best Wishes Dennis

• Anonymous
  February 08, 2008
  David I wonder if I may impose on you again. I made a start-up diskette from my XP but when I boot with it I can only access floppy drive A. I cannot access drive C This does not seem normal or am I doing something wrong? Your comments please Dennis

• Anonymous
  March 23, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 09, 2008
  Just wanted to say "Welcome Back"! I've been a silent-reader of your blog for a while, and I'm glad you're posting again! I've been digging into automation of IIS6/7 for our web server farm and you always seem to have the keys to unlocking what I'm trying to accomplish. Many thanks and I look forward to enjoying more of it!

• Anonymous
  October 22, 2009
  Issue with Application Pool Crashing. Event IDs:- 1010, 1012, 1013. Went through the following KB- 919792/ 821268/ 828222/ 827214/ 821268/ 827214/ 828222/ 919792. But no results. If anyone gone through the issue and also tried the above mentioned articles please post your comments and also please send the solution for the same.   This is my Email Address:- rafique.hrs@gmail.com; Thanks, Mohammed Rafique