IIS Field Readiness - blog of the European IIS team
This blog deals with troubleshooting IIS and ASP.net as well as web related technologies in production environments - tips and tricks on development and product updates
The smooth working of a bot will require a proper configuration on Azure AD. Sometimes users...
Date: 04/20/2018
Since last December our team starts to support Azure Bot Framework, so in this blog you'll start...
Date: 04/04/2018
I've seen quite a few questions recently about issues managing the Bot Registration properties....
Date: 03/05/2018
As we start to see more and more ASP.net Core applications being used in production, our customers...
Date: 02/07/2018
The SynchronizationContext (SC) is a vital component for the ASP.NET request lifecycle and it is...
Date: 12/05/2017
In case you don't recall the previous post, or just landed here, make sure to skim through it before...
Date: 12/02/2017
Hopefully brief but yet needed introduction For a long time, when ASP and ASP.NET WebForms were the...
Date: 12/02/2017
Summary for lazy readers Let's consider this scenario: We are using FTPs (FTP over SSL) to connect...
Date: 11/28/2017
Hosting the two sites on IIS and understanding the request flow and needed configuration to allow...
Date: 11/24/2017
With the front end site complete, we can shift focus to building the WebAPI backend that will be...
Date: 11/24/2017
In this part of the tutorial on CORS and ASP.net Core, we will create the front end application....
Date: 11/24/2017
Some time ago, I worked on an issue, where a website needed to execute a CORS (Cross Origins...
Date: 11/24/2017
Troubleshooting TLS / SSL communication problems for ASP.NET applications making HTTP Web Request or WCF queries to SSL endpoints – Scenario 3
In our first and second posts about troubleshooting the TLS / SSL problems, we worked to fix a "The...
Date: 10/10/2017
Troubleshooting TLS / SSL communication problems for ASP.NET applications making HTTP Web Request or WCF queries to SSL endpoints – Scenario 2
This is the second part of our series of articles about troubleshooting TLS / SSL communications...
Date: 10/09/2017
Troubleshooting TLS / SSL communication problems for ASP.NET applications making HTTP Web Request or WCF queries to SSL endpoints - Scenario 1
This is the first part of a series of articles about troubleshooting TLS / SSL communications...
Date: 10/06/2017
Troubleshooting TLS / SSL communication problems for ASP.NET applications making HTTP Web Request or WCF queries to SSL endpoints – Introduction
This is the introduction post of a series of articles about troubleshooting TLS / SSL communications...
Date: 10/06/2017
Dynamic Compression is one of the features that largely goes unnoticed in the everyday work a server...
Date: 09/05/2017
I have recently come across a few issues where some web apps were having a bad time due to some...
Date: 06/14/2017
The complete list of changes to make to activate Client Certificate Mapping on IIS using Active Directory
Setting up client certificate mapping in IIS 8.5 and above using Active Directory has never been...
Date: 01/16/2017
I've seen several scenarios where our customers need to reinstall IIS, a typical one is related to...
Date: 01/16/2017
Browsers have several ways in which they can handle a file that is downloaded from a web-server and...
Date: 01/06/2017
RSCA – an acronym for Runtime Service and Control API is a little know and little talked about...
Date: 12/06/2016
Internet Information Services (the handy web-server from Microsoft) runs on Windows server OS but...
Date: 09/23/2016
This is the third part of the article series dealing with IIS using URL rewrite as a reverse proxy...
Date: 08/25/2016
This is the second article in a three-part series of articles dealing with setting up IIS as a...
Date: 08/25/2016
Url Rewrite, one of the many modules that can be added on to the IIS web-server to make this a very...
Date: 08/25/2016
Windows 2008 R2 server is a very popular distribution of Windows that has been used time and time...
Date: 07/25/2016
If you are reading this article, I will make the assumption that you already know that in Microsoft...
Date: 01/18/2016
It's not the first time that I heard of my customers complaining about their anti-virus: after a...
Date: 12/03/2015
Many a times, customers come to me saying they have a feeling that their ASP.net application takes...
Date: 08/21/2015
While working on implementing new functionality on my online favorites manager (www.linqto.me) which...
Date: 04/07/2015
This week, together with my colleague Emmanuel, we released a Nuget package called Azure Black IPs...
Date: 01/23/2015
What is the Azure Black IPs Nuget Package. In a previous post on our blog...
Date: 01/20/2015
L'un de mes clients a récemment soulevé le fait qu'il ne pouvait pas exécuter...
Date: 01/20/2015
Une question qui revient régulièrement dans notre équipe concerne les compteurs...
Date: 01/05/2015
One regular question posed to our team deals with the performance counters set-up to ensure IIS and...
Date: 01/05/2015
In a previous blog, we explained how to Install IIS Dynamic IP Restrictions in an Azure Web Role. In...
Date: 12/30/2014
In the final article of the series on the dangers of ASP.net background threading, to illustrate the...
Date: 12/16/2014
When debugging memory dumps from customers, I have come to see, quite often, a pattern that you...
Date: 11/24/2014
Encrypting connectionStrings in Web.Config using the NetFrameworkConfigurationKey in an IIS Web Farm scenario
One of the most recommended measure during a web application security audit is to encrypt the...
Date: 10/28/2014
Encryption de la connectionStrings dans un Web.Config via la clé NetFrameworkConfigurationKey dans un scénario de Web Farm IIS
Une des mesures les plus recommandées lors d'audit de sécurité d'applications...
Date: 10/15/2014
When you write a web role requiring application specific configuration (like assembly binding), you...
Date: 05/15/2014
In a previous blog, I have detailed how to Install IIS Dynamic IP Restrictions in an Azure Web Role...
Date: 04/25/2014
A Denial-Of-Service (DOS) attack can target any application/tenant should it be hosted in Windows...
Date: 02/21/2014
In a previous blog article I've detailed how to analyse IIS Logs using Excel. However, when you get...
Date: 02/06/2014
Dans un article de blog précédent, j'expliquais comment utiliser Excel pour analyser...
Date: 02/06/2014
Au support, une question revient régulièrement : comment faites-vous pour analyser les...
Date: 01/15/2014
Many times customers are asking us how we analyse IIS logs. We usually use two different...
Date: 01/09/2014